The Kingfisher Treasury of Spooky Stories
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Overview:
- Title: The Kingfisher Treasury of Spooky Stories
- Author: Jane Olliver
- Year: Unknown
- ISBN-10: 9780753456347
- Publisher: Kingfisher
- Price: $5.99
- Pages: 158
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: A Story About Death
- Notes:
- First printing in 1992.
- Fourth printing per the numberline found on the book's copyright page.
- Profusely illustrated by Annabel Spenceley with each story having several black-and-white illustrations.
- The story "The Fraid" by Susan Price may be "The Familiar" from the same year.
- "Teeny-Tiny" is an English folk tale that is retold by Joseph Jacobs.
- "Shiver and Shake" is a Brothers Grimm story that is retold by Amabel Williams-Ellis.
- "Ghost Soup" is an Indian folk tale that is retold by John Paton, and it is not listed in the copyrights.
- There is a "2" on the spine in the middle of a big yellow dot. States on the back cover only that this is the second in Kingfisher Treasury series.
- $7.75 in Canada.
- Young persons anthology "Ages 5-8"