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A NIGHT OF TERROR
From
Ha-Sippur ha-Hasidi
(The Hasidic Story), by Joseph Dan (Jerusalem: Keter, 1975), pp. 229-35.
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NOWHERE TO HIDE
From
Folk Tales From Russia,
translated by Olga Shartse (Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990), pp. 146-53. A variant is found in
Georgian Folk-Tales
by M. Wardrop, reprinted in
Folk Tales of All Nations,
edited by F. H. Lee (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1930), pp. 493-96.
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THE HANDKERCHIEF
From
Folktales of China
edited by Wolfram Eberhard (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965), pp. 131-33.
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THE MOUSETRAP
From
Icelandic Folktales and Legends
by Jacqueline Simpson (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972), pp. 169-70.
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THE SPEAKING HEAD
From
Peâer Mi-Qedoshim
(The Glory of the Holy Ones) (Lvov: 1864). Also found in
Anshei Ma'aseh
(The People of the Story).
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THE DRIPPING CUTLASS
From
Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales,
compiled by Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer, and Robert Tallant (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1945), pp. 275-76.
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THE BLACK SNAKE
From
Otsar ha-Maâasiyyot
(A Treasury of Tales), Volume 5, edited by Reuven ben Ya'akov Na'ana (Jerusalem: 1961).
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THE HAND OF DEATH
From
Of the Night Wind's Telling: Legends from the Valley of Mexico,
by E. Adams Davis (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946), pp. 201-6.
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THE INVISIBLE GUEST
From
The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries,
by Thomas Keightley (London: George Bell & Sons, 1878), pp. 240-57.
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A TRACE OF BLOOD
From
Mules and Men,
by Zora Neale Hurston (Philadelphia: J.P Lippincott Company, 1935), pp. 290-92.
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THE BRIDAL GOWN
From
Semitic Magic: Its Origins and Development,
by R. Campbell Thompson (London: Luzac & Co., 1908), pp. 71-72.
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THE GREEDY MAN AND THE GOAT
From
Russian Fairy Tales,
collected by Aleksandr Afanas'ev, translated by Norbert Guterman (New York: Pantheon Books, 1945), pp. 550-52.
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THE EVIL EYE
From A
Treasury of New England Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the Yankee People
edited by B. A. Botkin (New York: Crown Publishers, 1947), pp. 421-23. Reprinted from
Liverpool Jarge, Yarns,
by Halliday Witherspoon (Boston: Square Rigger Company, 1933), Yarn 10. Also from
A Sailor's Treasury: Being the Myths and Superstitions, Legends, Lore and Yarns, Cries, Epithets, and Salty Speech of the American Sailormen in the Days of Oak and Canvas,
by Frank Shay (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1951).
Arielle North Olson
is the author of three picture books. She reviewed picture books for the
St. Louis Post Dispatch
for twenty-six years.
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Howard Schwartz,
a noted folklorist, is the author of over twenty books for readers of all ages. He has won the Aesop Award of the American Folklore Society.
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David Linn
has illustrated three scary story collections, because, he says, “There simply isn't enough terror in my life!” His oil paintings have been widely exhibited.