Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries.

The fae and the humans have been at war since before Lilywhite was born. Branded a criminal for being half human and half fae, Lilywhite Abernathy is forced to join a fae sleeper cell dedicated to destroying the human world by posing as the sons and daughters of humanity's most prominent families.

Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology at Occidental College, is the author of The Mummies of Ürümchi (W. W. Norton), Women's Work (W. W. Norton), and Prehistoric Textiles (Princeton). Paul T. Barber, a research associate with the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Vampires, Burial, and Death (Yale). Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks?...

Retells the story of Goldilocks, set in an Inuit village and featuring a family of polar bears.

On a bitter cold Christmas Even night, a poor Ukrainian mother brings a small Christmas tree into her home, unknowingly saving a spider mother and her babies, and the spider spins a Christmas miracle to thank the woman, decorating her tree with beautiful ornaments spun from her web.

A young warrior-in-training faces high school, romance, and a host of magical foes in the New York Times bestselling author's YA urban fantasy novel.
I've seen so many freaky things since I started attending Mythos Academy last fall. I know I'm supposed to be a fearless warrior, but most of the time, I feel like I'm just waiting for the next Bad, Bad Thing to happen. Like someone trying to kill me—again.
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Julie discovers that her new friends's father is a giant.

"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate

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"Creatures from Peruvian lore try to scare a child who's so absorbed in her bedtime reading that she comically rebuffs their attempts."--Provided by publisher.

The dwarf known as Seven explains how Snow White's terrible memory was the cause of many problems, including her long sleep, and exactly how she was rescued by a prince.