A collection of 21 spinetiggling tales from the classics of horror. The book is divided into four sections: death, disease and madness, the power of the mind, and evil. The stories have been abridged so that they are shorter and so that the reader stays engaged. Since the stories are written by classic horror writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Robert Louis Stevenson, the tales have a complicated and wordy language. The illustrations by Pedro Rodriguez help emphasize the scariness of the texts. This collection will likely be most popular for accelerated readers who love horror stories. Recommended if enough of my patrons are looking for a book like this. ( )