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How I Got My Shrunken Head

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  • 1996 first published
  • 128 pages
  • ★ 4.5 (6 ratings)
  • 22 editions
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Robert Lawrence Stine's How I Got My Shrunken Head (1996) is a ghost story and horror novella. It deals with Head, shrunken heads, cuentos de terror and magic.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.5 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 71 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 22 editions across 3 languages.

At about 128 pages, most readers finish it in 2–3 hours.

About How I Got My Shrunken Head

Mark's Aunt Benna presents him with a gift of a shrunken head from the jungle island of Baladora. But this is no ordinary head, as Mark soon discovers!
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Head
  • Shrunken heads
  • Shrunken heads in fiction
  • Horror stories
  • Cuentos de terror
  • Horror tales
  • Magic
  • Jungles
  • Children's fiction
  • Jungle
  • Supernatural
  • Ghosts

Quick answers

Who wrote How I Got My Shrunken Head?

How I Got My Shrunken Head was written by Robert Lawrence Stine and first published in 1996.

What genre is How I Got My Shrunken Head?

It is usually shelved as Ghost Stories and Horror.

How long is How I Got My Shrunken Head?

The median edition has 128 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to How I Got My Shrunken Head?

Readers who like it often enjoy In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories, Scary Stories 3 and The Graveyard Book.

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