Get ready to chuckle and to shiver—sometimes both at once! Within these pages you’ll encounter situations that are scary or amusing, but always unforgettable. Here are just three of them:
• When blundering kidnappers snatch a little boy, the hilarious events that follow will leave you wondering who the “victim" really is.
• Two old friends enter the gloomy wine cellar, its cold walls dripping with dampness. Only one of the friends will ever leave.
• Riding home from a late-night party, a timid schoolmaster is pursued by a terrifying man on horseback—a man with no head.
Note: The classic short stories in this collection have been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students.
