The collection «Scary Stories» by the well-known children’s writer Tatyana Rik is sure to appeal to readers of any age. Children themselves are especially fond of inventing and telling one another such short stories, sometimes with frightening plots and sometimes with absurd and funny ones.
«Oh, how scary it can be in the dark! One moment it seems the curtain is moving, the next the shelf creaks threateningly. And what about the robe on the chair—won’t it come to life? But there is a wonderful cure for fear. It is LAUGHTER! I often speak to readers. The children say about these stories: “These aren’t scary stories, they’re funny stories of some kind!” And one boy said: “These are the kindest scary stories I’ve ever heard!”
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1. The Blue Queen
2. The Bald Skull
3. A Camera with Legs
4. Hospital Horrors
5. The Killer Robe
6. Enchanted Compasses
7. The Terrible Hairdresser’s
8. Full Moon in Isolation
9. The Bandit Fish
10. The Deadly Curtain
11. The Fainting Pen
12 Rustles and Sobs
13. Rabid Cucumbers
14. Horse Head
15. The Blue Man
16. The Paratrooper Pillow
17. Little Feet
18. The Autumn Rustler
19. Kikimora Swamp
20. The Purple Fellow
21. Underwater Factory
22. Zemfira the Rat — Mutant
23. A Cheerful Little Apartment
24. The Witch from Our Yard
25. Little Scarlet Flower
26. The Little Toothy One
27. The Black Scarf
28. Great-Grandma’s Silver Fox
29. A Girl’s Secret, or Brown Ear
30. The Blue Leg, the Red Leg
31. Death Came
32. A Plate for Teeth
33. Mysterious Disappearances
34. Glommymer
35. Cactus Vampire
36. White Head
37. The Cursed Place
38. Bloodsucker
39. Chicken Legs
40. Villainous Microbes, or How Was the Epidemic Born?
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