A young man searches for three people more foolish than his fiancée and her parents

Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings

Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures

It seems animals are like people in many ways-they just can't get along with one another. And Brer Rabbit has the most trouble of all. Maybe it's his mischievous ways, or maybe it's because adventures always come looking for him. There was the frightening day that Brer Rabbit found himself attached to a baby made of sticky tar. Brer Fox would have had a tasty barbecue that evening if Brer Rabbit hadn't been such a quick thinker. Then there was the...

More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs

After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world

A collection of popular tales told to young children in places such as Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Mexico