Storytelling World/Storytelling Magazine Award Winner"I love a book that gives me what it promises, and this one does: fifty real ghost stories, drawn from a variety of sources and told in as many voices, written so as to simulate the language and delivery of a face-to-face performance, and artfully, delightfully done." Review of Texas Books"Scarcely a page will you turn in this collection of ghost stories in Texas without encountering a disembodied hand or a fang baby creatures guaranteed to shock the shell of an armadillo. . . . Whether you read the tales out loud or spin them around a...

A beady-eyed varmint crawls through the floor of a lonely old man's cabin. A boy spends the night in a haunted house, complete with a grinning skeleton in the chimney. A young girl foolishly taunts a giant owl-woman. A young man's prom date has a spooky secret. The Hairy Man will catch you--unless you can fool him three times. Graveyard ghosts and creatures from swamps and riverbanks slink through ten creepy tales presented by master storytellers Tim Tingle and Doc Moore. Guaranteed to send shivers down the spines of younger readers, each of these stories comes with its own eerie...

The fearsome Chupacabra stalks the desert valley, while a grandson wanders far from the ranch. The woman who's just moved to the neighborhood wears strange sunglasses after dark. What could be behind them? A man picks up a hitchhikeronly to discover that his passenger is not human. Kids of all ages will find chills and thrills in these tales of the weird, the macabre, and the mysterious, all collected from the lore and legends of the Lone Star State. In addition to Skinwalker, the authors' most requested school concert story, this new volume adds spine-tingling twists on the account of La...