Robert D. San Souci

A collection of scary traditional tales from all over the world.

Six silly friends spend a day trying to figure out how to proceed with their fishing trip when one thing after another goes wrong.

A Spanish American retelling of the familiar story of a kind girl who is mistreated by her jealous stepmother and stepsisters. In this version, the Virgin Mary replaces the traditional fairy godmother.

A collection of scary traditional tales from all over the world, including "Apparitions" from Germany, "The Hundredth Skull" from Ohio, and "The Ogre's Arm" from Japan.

A retelling of the original Chinese poem in which a brave young girl masquerades as a boy and fights the Tartars in the Khan's army.

A Japanese folk tale about the brave daughter of a samurai warrior and her journey to be reunited with her exiled father.

A retelling of a twelth-century tale in which a young woman falls in love with a merman and determines to marry him despite their separate worlds.

"Scare-master Robert San Souci serves up ten chilling tales about untraditional haunted houses: a mansion full of pirate treasure, a ghost trapped in a mysterious dollhouse, a boy whose vacation house comes complete with people-eating spiders, and many more. But beware because not all of the protagonists in these stories get out alive."--Amazon.com.