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SCARY STORIES 3: MORE TALES TO CHILL YOUR BONES. Text copyright © 1991 by Alvin Schwartz. Illustrations copyright © 1991 by Stephen Gammell. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Cover art by Stephen Gammell
Cover design by Catherine San Juan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Schwartz, Alvin.
Scary stories 3 : more tales to chill your bones / collected from folklore and retold by Alvin Schwartz ; drawings by Stephen Gammell.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary: More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.
ISBN 978-0-06-268287-1 (pbk.)
1. Tales. 2. Ghost stories 3. Horror tales. [1. Ghosts—Folklore. 2. Horror stories. 3. Folklore.] I. Gammell, Stephen, ill. II. Title. II. Title: Scary stories three.
PZ8.1.S399Sb 1991 90-047474
398.2'5—dc20 CIP
AC
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Digital Edition APRIL 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-268288-8
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-268287-1
Revised edition, 2017
“The Wolf Girl” is based in part on “The Lobo Girl of Devil’s River” by L.D. Bertillion in Straight Texas, Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, XIII, 1937.
“The Hog” is adapted from an untitled anecdote in Bluenose Ghosts by Helen Creighton. Used by permission of McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, Toronto. Copyright © 1957 by The Ryerson Press.
About the Author and Illustrator
ALVIN SCHWARTZ is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explores 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 Other Scary Stories and Ghosts!—are just one part of his matchless folklore collection.
STEPHEN GAMMELL is the illustrator of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and Scary Stories 3, as well as many other books. He won the Caldecott Medal for Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman. He also earned Caldecott Honors for Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker and The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant.
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Books by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones
I Can Read Books™
(for younger readers)
All of Our Noses Are Here
and Other Noodle Tales
Ghosts!
Ghostly Tales from Folklore
I Saw You in the Bathtub
and Other Folk Rhymes
In a Dark, Dark Room
There Is a Carrot in My Ear
and Other Noodle Tales
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