Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones [Paperback]

Alvin Schwartz (Author), Stephen Gammell (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up | Series: Scary Stories

Storytellers know -- just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years -- that everyone enjoys a good, scary story!

Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give readers spooky, funny and fantastic tales guaranteed to raise goose bumps.

Who is the Wolf girl? Why is a hearse filled with men with yellow glowing eyes? Can a nightmare become reality? How do you avoid an appointment with Death?

Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozens scary stories -- and even a scary song -- all just right for reading along or for telling aloud in the dark..

Editorial Reviews

From Kirkus Reviews

A poltergeist that specializes in unscrewing bottle-caps...a couple who bring home a strange-looking little dog from Mexico, only to be told that it's a sewer rat...suddenly vanishing friends, relatives, and animals...a Texas girl raised by wolves- -yes, it's a new collection of horribilia: chillers, ghost stories, and urban legends, retold in an appropriately matter-of- fact way and illustrated by a master of the macabre. Schwartz gives most of the tales a modern setting, provides hints for storytellers, discusses variants, and--as in two previous collections--appends careful source notes and a good-sized bibliography. Gammell supplies a characteristic array of leering faces, slimy bones, and scrofulous, unidentifiable creatures. Perfect for reading alone or aloud in a dimly lit room. You first. (Folklore. 10-14) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review

"Guaranteed to make your teeth chatter and your spine tingle." -- 'School Library Journal

"Perfect for reading alone or aloud in a dimly lit room." -- -- Kirkus Reviews

"Read these if you dare." -- –- The New York Times

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (August 2, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0064404188
• ISBN-13: 978-0064404181
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #749,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #31 in Books > Children's Books > Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths > Collections

More About the Author

Alvin Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. His collections of scary stories -- Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, Scary Stories 3, and two I Can Read Books, In A Dark, Dark Room and Ghosts! -- are just one part of his matchless folklore collection.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars classic scary tales, September 14, 2002

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Kimberley Wilson (VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (Paperback)

This is a wonderful collection of urban legends and reworkings of regional ghost stories. The stand out of the collection is the story of "Harold." Even though this book is mostly for older kids, "Harold" will definitely leave even adults unnerved.You won't be able to look at a scarecrow without being spooked for weeks after reading the story. This book offers scary stories that aren't gross and don't have some sort of underlying agenda. It's just plain fun.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stories!, February 24, 2006

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Book reader - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (Paperback)

I have always been fascinated with all of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories collection, ever since I was a child. Stephen Gammell's drawings are really creepy. I purchased these books to hopefully share with my students. BEWARE though, some young children become frightened with some of the drawings! For ages 9 and up!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Scary as Hell!, August 15, 2001

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"coolchick23" (Queens, N.Y.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scary Stories 3: More Tales To Chill Your Bones (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (School & Library Binding)

This book terrified me as a kid and it still does now at age 20. The scariest story is about "Harold" a giant doll that comes to life and kills somebody. It would make a great horror movie. The story about the girl raised by wolves is even cooler now because of a real life case I learned about in my Sociology class of a boy being found in the wilderness that is something like it. All in all this is an awesome book that still scares me and my friends today.