Scary Stories
Published in 2006, Scary Stories is a gothic fiction and ghost story novel by Barry Moser, Dean Koontz and Edgar Allan Poe. Characters include Klara Hitler, Otto Hitler and Gustav Hitler. Readers will find themes of crime, first-person narrative, Homicide and Hyperesthesia.
Open Library readers give it an average of 3.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, and 67 more have it on their want-to-read list.
It runs to roughly 184 pages — 3–4 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Scary Stories
Kittens / Dean Koontz -- The Magic Shop / H.G. Wells -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Genesis and catastrophe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504273W) (a true story) / Roald Dahl -- The squaw / Bram Stoker -- Here there be tygers / Stephen King -- Man overboard! / Winston Churchill -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The bus-conductor / E.F. Benson -- Thanksgiving / Joyce Carol Oates -- Excerpt from The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The terrible old man / H.P. Lovecraft -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The man upstairs / Ray Bradbury -- The music on the hill / Saki -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- Fingers on the back of the neck / Margaret Mahy -- The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service.
Quick answers
Who wrote Scary Stories?
Scary Stories was written by Barry Moser, Dean Koontz and Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 2006.
What genre is Scary Stories?
It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction, Ghost Stories and Horror.
How long is Scary Stories?
The median edition has 184 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Scary Stories?
Readers who like it often enjoy The Vampyre, Dracula and The Shining.
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