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Scary!

  • 1998 first published
  • 224 pages
  • ★ 3.8 (5 ratings)
  • 6 editions

Peter Haining, Robert Lawrence Stine and Jerome Bixby's Scary! (1998) is a horror story collection.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, and 95 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 6 editions.

It runs to roughly 224 pages — 4–5 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Scary!

Anthology: Give yourself the shivers with these fourteen stories by the master scaremongers. 1. The Spell - R. L. Stine 2. It’s a Good Life - Jerome Bixby 3. Drink My Red Blood - Richard Matheson 4. Something Nasty - William F. Nolan 5. The Restless Ghost - Leon Garfield 6. The Thirteenth Day of Christmas - Isaac Asimov 7. Hush! - Zenna Henderson 8. Spotty Powder - Roald Dahl 9. A Baby Tramp - Ambrose Bierce 10. The Man Upstairs - Ray Bradbury 11. Dead Language Master - Joan Aiken 12. Here There Be Tygers - Stephen King 13. The Trick [“Trick or Treat”] - Ramsey Campbell 14. A Toy for Juliette - Robert Bloch
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • American Horror tales
  • English Horror tales
  • English Short stories
  • American Short stories

Quick answers

Who wrote Scary!?

Scary! was written by Peter Haining, Robert Lawrence Stine and Jerome Bixby and first published in 1998.

What genre is Scary!?

It is usually shelved as Horror.

How long is Scary!?

The median edition has 224 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Scary!?

Readers who like it often enjoy Vampire & Werewolf Stories, Inferno and Tales of Terror and Mystery.

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