Frankenstein (Step-Up Classic Chillers)
by Mary Shelley
from Random House Books for Young Readers
Victor Frankenstein learns the secret of producing life, and so, by putting together parts of various corpses, he creates the Frankenstein monster. The monster is huge and disformed, but he means no harm to anyone--until constant ill treatment drives him to murder and revenge. This easy-to-read version of Mary Shelley's long-standing masterpiece easily captures the sadness and horror of the original.
Ghost Hotel
by Larry Weinberg
from Troll Communications
Shivers & Shakes
Shivers and Shakes
by Larry Weinberg
from Troll Communications
Have you heard about the boy whose grandfather came to call - from beyond the grave? Or the substitute teacher you'd never want in your school? Preteen readers will shiver and shake as they enjoy this collection of spine-chilling tales. By the best-selling author of Ghost Hotel.
Escape from Ghost Hotel
by Larry Weinberg
from Troll Communications
DRACULA-BK/CASS (Step-Up Classic Chillers)
Dracula is perhaps almost as interesting regarded historically as the product of a specific time as it is engaging to continuing generations of readers in a 'timeless' fashion. In her introduction Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. At the same time she is entirely attuned to the ways in which, however much Dracula is a Victorian text, Dracula is a very twentieth-century character, a representative of modernity and of the future.
A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later.
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