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The Haunted House and Other Spooky Poems and Tales

Vic Crume & Gladys Schwarcz

First published 1970
Publisher Scholastic
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Catalog ID TX 1786
Cover art Gerry Contreras
Pages 80
Price $0.50
ISBN 0590092197

Notes

The Stories:
•"A Sea Dirge" is excerpted from The Tempest.
•"The Ghost Catcher" is retold by E. B. Chance.
•"The Cradle That Rocked by Itself" is retold by Maria Leach.
•"The Erl-King" is translated by Louis Untermeyer.
•"The Red Room" is an edited and abridged version of the H. G. Wells story. The excerpt from "Sir Roderic's Song" is from the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Ruddigore. "Illustration by Gerry Contreras" on the cover of Scholastic's record album of this book, which shares the same cover art.