More Bones : Scary Stories from Around the World

Ready for scary?!Shhh! Have you heard about the man who marries . . . a corpse?! Or what about the magic school where one student in every class is never allowed to leave? Or the beautiful red-haired maiden whose hair is actually serpents? Many of these tales go back hundreds of years and to the farthest corners of the earth, but as diverse as they are, they also reveal one important truth: everyone loves a scary story. The authors have dug deeply—from Egypt to Iceland—to find the spookiest stories for More Bones. Listen! Can you hear the bones beginning to rattle?

Award-winning folklorist Howard Schwartz and picture book author Arielle North Olson collaborated on Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World. They both live in Missouri.

E. M. Gist teaches art at the Watts Atelier of the Arts. He lives in California.