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Truly Scary Stories for Fearless Kids

Greg Ioannou

First published 1998
Publisher Key Porter Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 269
ISBN 1550139940

While marketed "for kids", it does not appear any of the stories were adapted/simplified.

  • Data from Internet Archive scan of 4th printing
  • Date from Amazon.com as of 2023-06-30.
  • First printing per number line
  • Editor credit from copyright page
  • Cover artist is not credited, but is probably one of the interior artists
  • Interior artist credits per copyright page
  • There are multiple images per story
  • "The Storm" translator is not credited. Text comparison matches translation by Alberto Manguel.
  • "The Hand" translated by Dr. Arnold Kellett
  • "The Golden Arm" and "The Strange Visitor" are given as "Traditional English Fairy Tale" and acknowledgements state they are Joseph Jacobs' versions from his English Fairy Tales
  • While marketed "for kids", it does not appear any of the stories were adapted/simplified

Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons Walter R. Brooks Short Story
25 Of a Promise Kept Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
31 The Storm Jules Verne Short Story
41 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving Novelette
49 The Cremation of Sam McGee Robert Service Poem
55 The Hand Guy de Maupassant Short Story
64 The Golden Arm uncredited Short Story
67 My Grandfather, Hendry Watty Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Short Story
75 Huw Geoffrey Palmer & Noel Lloyd Short Story
88 The Visitor Sean O'Huigin Poem
89 The King O' the Cats Joseph Jacobs Short Story
92 Best Before Laurie Channer Short Fiction
103 The Blackstairs Mountain Ruth Manning-Sanders Short Story
109 Climax for a Ghost Story I. A. Ireland Short Story
111 Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker Short Story
127 A Change of Aunts Vivien Alcock Short Story
139 The Strange Visitor uncredited Poem
143 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Short Story
159 The Train Room Gary Hines Short Story
164 The Geebung Polo Club Banjo Paterson Poem
167 The Doll's Ghost Marion Crawford Short Fiction
183 Lizard: The Devil's Plaything Karen Voss Peters Short Fiction
197 The Ride-by-Nights Walter de la Mare Poem
199 The Kit-Bag Algernon Blackwood Short Story
216 The Pocket Sean O'Huigin Poem
219 The Story-Teller Saki Short Story
227 John Charrington's Wedding E. Nesbit Short Story
239 The Voice in the Night William Hope Hodgson Short Story
255 Buggam Grange: A Good Old Ghost Story Stephen Leacock Short Story
267 The Devil's Thoughts (excerpt) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Truly Scary Stories for Fearless Kids Cover 2001 Key Porter Books Hardcover Anthology 269