The Unseen: Scary Stories

by Janet Lunn

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A collection of twenty-one short stories and poems about ghosts and other things supernatural by a variety of Canadian authors including Tim Wynne-Jones, Kit Pearson, Jean Little, Karleen Bradford, Janet Lunn, and L.M.Montgomery.

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Janet Lunn was born in Dallas, Texas on December 28, 1928. She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her first book, Double Spell, was published in 1968. Her other books include The Root Cellar, Come to the Fair, and Shadow in Hawthorn Bay. The Hollow Tree received the Governor General's Literary Award in 1998 and The Story of show more Canada written with Christopher Moore received a Mr. Christie's Book Award in 1993. She also received the Canadian Authors Association's Vicki Metcalf Award for Body of Work and The Writer's Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award in Celebration of a Writing Life. She died on June 26, 2017 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Barkhouse, Joyce (Contributor)
Bedard, Michael (Contributor)
Boswell, Hazel (Contributor)
Bradford, Karleen (Contributor)
Brien, Jean (Contributor)
Doyle, Brian (Contributor)
Hughes, Monica (Contributor)
Lampman, Archibald (Contributor)
Leach, Maria (Contributor)
Lee, Dennis (Contributor)
Little, Jean (Contributor)
MacFarlane, Andrew (Contributor)
Montgomery, Lucy Maud (Contributor)
Pearson, Kit (Contributor)
Roberts, Ken (Contributor)
Robinson, James F. (Contributor)
Siamon, Sharon (Contributor)
Spray, Carole (Contributor)
Wynne-Jones, Tim (Contributor)
Yee, Paul (Contributor)

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Canonical title
The Unseen: Scary Stories
Original publication date
1994
Dedication
To the kind lady who haunts my house,
whoever she is

—J. L.
First words
Ghosts. (Introduction)

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry
DDC/MDS
810.8Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican literature in EnglishAnthologies and Collections
LCC
PZ5 .U68Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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