
Author: | Various Authors |
Title: | The Haunted House and Other Spooky Poems and Tales |
Format: | Book (Softcover) |
Publisher: | Scholastic |
Size: | 5¼" X 7½" |
Length: | 80 Pages |
Country of Origin: | United States |
Year of Issue: | 1970 |
Condition of Item: | VG- (Very Good Minus) |
ISBN: | 0-590-09219-7 |
Notes: | Edited by Gladys Schwarcz and Vic Crume Illustrations by Gerry Contreras |
Contents: Old Cornish Litany -- Author Unknown The Haunted House -- by Vic Crume A Skeleton Once in Khartoum -- Author Unknown In Memory of Anna Hopewell -- Author Unknown The Devil's Pocket -- by George Mendoza The Old Wife and the Ghost -- by James Reeves Mother Goose -- by Irene Sekula The Superstitious Ghost -- by Arthur Guiterman The Flattered Flying Fish -- E.V. Rieu Ruth and Johnnie -- Author Unknown It Isn't the Cough -- Author Unknown Adventures of Isabel -- by Ogden Nash The Velvet Ribbon -- Ann McGovern Little Willie -- Author Unknown Jerry Jones -- Author Unknown The Cradle That Rocked by Itself -- as told by Maria Leach The Wreck of the Hesperus -- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Yarn of the Nancy Bell -- by William Schwenck Gilbert A Sea Dirge from The Tempest -- William Shakespeare The Ghost Catcher - a tale from India -- retold by E.B. Chance The Great Auk's Ghost -- by Ralph Hodgson Any Day Now -- by David McCord The Witch of Willowby Wood -- by Rowena Bennett A Young Lady from Glitch -- by Tamara Kitt The Purist -- by Ogden Nash The Kilkenny Cats -- Author Unknown Dust -- by Sydney King Russell Windy Nights -- by Robert Louis Stevenson Voices -- by Felice Holman Winter Moon -- by Langston Hughes November Night -- by Adelaide Crapsey The Erl-King -- by Johann W. von Goethe, translated by Louis Untermeyer Shadows Before Dawn - from "A Song of Sherwood" -- by Alfred Noyes from "Sir Roderic's Song" -- by William Schwenck Gilbert The Bat -- by Theodore Roethke The Listeners -- by Walter de la Mare The Red Room -- by H.G. Wells The Two Old Women of Mumbling Hill -- by James Reeves Spooks -- by Nathalia Crane |