Author: Nicola Baxter Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List): The fearful fictional figures of Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and the hideous hound of the Baskervilles are frightening, but the true stories that join them in this chilling collection are no less gruesome. Here you will meet unscrupulous dealers in human remains, a murderous barber whose victims were devoured by their unknowing fellow citizens, and a curse that clawed its victims to the grave across thousands of years.
Contents:
- Dracula
- The Curse of the Mummy
- The Body Snatchers
- Monstrous Creation
- Sentence of Death
- The Barbarous Barber
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- The Devil's Bargain
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
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