Drawn from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings

The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.

Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.

Though Old Man Winter starts off the day feeling grumpy, his mood improves when he is reminded of how special he really is.

A brother and sister continually argue during the family's Sunday drive.

A biography of the brilliant southern general who gained the nickname Stonewall by his stand at Bull Run during the Civil War.

After hearing the legend retold by the tribe's oldest member, Little Wolf hopes to someday witness the beginning of the buffaloes at the sacred lake.

Henry's neighbors are scandalized that he ignores them and lets his property get run down, until they drive him away and find themselves missing him.

In this allegory, the author's reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are carried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.