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Hoo Ha’s
These scary stories will take you on a strange and fearsome journey, where darkness or fog or mist or the sound of a person screaming or a dog howling turns ordinary places into nightmarish places, where nothing is what you expect.
People have been telling scary stories for as long as anyone knows. From the first, they were tales of supernatural creatures that people feared would harm them—bogeymen, monsters, demons, ghosts, and evil spirits lurking in the dark, waiting for a chance to strike.
We still tell stories about creatures we fear, but not all of them are about bogeymen and demons. Quite a few are about living people. You’ll meet some of them—a fat and jolly butcher, a friendly girl who plays a drum, a neighbor, and others who, at best, are not to be trusted.
Scary stories of this kind often have a serious purpose. They may warn young people of dangers that await them when they set out in the world on their own.
But for the most part, we tell scary stories to have fun. We turn out the lights, or we leave just a candle burning. Then we sit close together and tell the scariest stories we know. Often these include some that have been passed down over hundreds of years.
If a story is scary enough, your flesh begins to creep. You get a shivery, shaky, screamy feeling. You imagine hearing and seeing things. You hold your breath as you wait to learn how it all ends. If something startling happens, everyone GASPS! or JUMPS! or SCREAMS!
Some people call those shivery, shaky, screamy feelings the “heebee jeebies” or the “screaming meemies.” The poet T. S. Eliot called them the “hoo-ha’s.”
You’d better read the stories in this book while you are still feeling brave and before it gets dark. Then, when the moon is up, tell them to your friends and relatives. You’ll probably give them the “hoo-ha’s.” But they’ll have fun, and so will you.
 
ALVIN SCHWARTZ
Princeton, New Jersey
This chapter is filled with ghost stories. In one, a man has just become a ghost, but doesn’t know it yet. In another, a pirate ship and crew return from a watery grave. And there are other frightful events.
• SOMETHING WAS WRONG •
One morning John Sullivan found himself walking along a street downtown. He could not explain what he was doing there, or how he got there, or where he had been earlier. He didn’t even know what time it was.
He saw a woman walking toward him and stopped her. “I’m afraid I forgot my watch,” he said, and smiled. “Can you tell me the time? ............

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