HIT: Alternatives to Stine & Pike - Comments

[Melissa Davis <mbdavis@TENET.EDU>]

Here are just a few of the comments that I received in response to my
request for alternatives to Stine & Pike. I am sharing them with you
because they offer some really good ideas and I didn't want to keep them
to myself.

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        Melissa Davis                   Librarian
        Splendora Middle School         Splendora I.S.D.
        P O Box 168                     Splendora, TX 77372
        Internet: mbdavis@tenet.edu     PHONE: (713)689-2853
        CompuServe: 75146,771
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I have a hot "new" section of the library called story collection!  I have
been buying the horror collections by Kahn (Handle with care), Aiken
"Touch of chill," and many regional ghost story collections from August
House publishers.  After Stine, Pike, Point and King leave the kids seem
to like them.  I also have true ghost and witch stories in the 133.5's and
the Schwartz books, Southern fried rat, Headless roommate, Vanishing hitch
hiker etc.in the folklore.  The kids like them all.  We do have all the
authors you mention in the story collections too but they are in boring
formats--actually though I have read about Lovecraft for years I haven't
read any of his stories--do you have a collection to recommend?

Lynn McCree, Librarian
Martin Junior High
Austin, Texas
Lmcc@tenet.edu
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  Our 9th graders have often voted Poe their favorite author, they devour
his works in Jr.  High.  The English teachers do a lot with Poe.

      Jan Weeks, Librarian @ North Knox High School
      Box 187, Bicknell, Indiana  47512
      email: jweeks@ideanet.doe.state.in.us
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Also check other non-fiction areas for "horror" stories. 000"s
Encyclopedia fo Monesters, 100's books on bigfoot, loch ness monester,
etc.  200's mythology ( some pretty monestrous things there, 300's true
crime stories, 500's creepy crawlies from the real world- snakes,
dinosaures; 700's books
 available on drawing monesters and creepy crawly things; 800's of
course,Poe's stories and poems, 900's bios of poe and Lizzie Bordon
perhaps.

Your collection may have different titles but the idea is the same.  In a
recent video production class three of us concentrated on this very same
topic and came up with MYSTERIOUS HAPPENING IN THE MEDIA CENTER. Oh yes, in
the 900's mummies .

Judy A. Bell 904 4267405 <BELLJ7@mail.firn.edu>
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