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The Teachers Camp was established on December 11, 1907, by an ordinance by Benguet Governor William Pack in an area which was then named O-ring-ao to accommodate both American and Filipino teachers. The outline of the camp's plan was made by W. Morgan Schuster, secretary of the Bureau of Public Instruction on January 18, 1908. [ 3 ]
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a collection of horror stories, poems and urban legends retold for children by Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Dirk Zimmer. It was published as part of the I Can Read! series in 1984. In 2017 the book was re-released with illustrations by Spanish freelance illustrator Victor Rivas. [1]
Two men are discussing the folklore of the private schools they attended. One tells of a Latin teacher named Mr. Sampson who kept a Byzantine coin that he would show his students. The narrator's friend gives the teacher a strange message in Latin which translates to "remember the well among the four yews", [1] though he doesn't know why he ...
The first story, "Grandmother's Footsteps", used the phrase ghost story as word play because the plot twist of the grandmother being dead all along changed the phrase's meaning to "story from a ghost"; [3] "A Lesson From History" uses wordplay for ghostwriter because a ghost wrote Elisa's exam. Meanwhile, "Guilt Ghost" and "The Broken-Down ...
Despite her bizarre family and unusual behavior, it is never revealed if she really is a vampiress; in general, she does her job as a teacher well. She appears in all the Super Special editions. Mr. Jenkins: Mr. Jenkins is the camp counselor of Camp Lone Wolf, and some think he is a werewolf. Like Mrs. Jeepers, it is never known if he really is ...
[1] Some of the characters' surnames implied their roles in the story (Mr and Mrs Frightfully-Busy were workaholics, [10] Johnny Bullneck is an aggressive school bully, [11] and Serena Slurp is greedy) [12] whereas the more ridiculous the family name is, the more unpleasant they are in the story: Fedora Funkelfink the con artist; [13] and the ...
Haunted Kids (also known as Haunted Kids: True Ghost Stories) is a series of children's allegedly true ghost story books written by Allan Zullo and Bruce Nash. The stories are all non-fiction and based on alleged real cases, involving children who claim to have had encounters with the supernatural. The series published 11 initial volumes ...
The Point Horror series was launched in 1991 by Scholastic Inc, with the publisher re-releasing several of its previous titles under the Point Horror banner. Authors who published under the label of Point Horror include R.L. Stine, L.J. Smith (author), Diane Hoh, Richie Tankersley Cusick, Christopher Pike, and Caroline B. Cooney. [2]