Bøger af Tim Tingle

A beady-eyed varmint crawls through the floor of a lonely old man's cabin. A boy spends the night in a haunted house. A girl foolishly taunts a giant owl-woman. A young mans prom date has a spooky secret. This title features ten creepy tales. Suitable for young readers, it also includes eerie illustrations.

The fearsome Chupacabra stalks the desert valley, while a grandson wanders far from the ranch. The woman who's just moved to the neighborhood wears strange sunglasses after dark. What could be behind them? A man picks up a hitchhikeronly to discover that his passenger is not human. Kids of all ages will find chills and thrills in these tales of the weird, the macabre, and the mysterious, all collected from the lore and legends of the Lone Star State. In addition to "Skinwalker," the authors' most requested school concert story, this new volume adds spine-tingling twists on the account of La Llorona, the weeping woman, said to be the world's best-known ghost; the classic tale "The Money's Paw"; the story of "The Screaming Banshee Cattle of the Night Swamp," and seven others. Told with humor and lively modern-day detail, these renderings by veteran storytellers not only please and entertain but preserve a wealth of folklore from a culturally diverse region of the country.

Includes stories some humorous, some haunting, and some just late-night terrifying, gathered by two Texas tellers, span a rich cultural heritage from the earliest Spanish explorers to the present, from ""La Llorona (the Weeping Woman)"" to the ""Vanishing Hitchhiker"". This title is suitable for tellers, teachers, readers, and collectors.