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  2. Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children

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    Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children by Angus Oblong, creator of the Oblongs. Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children is a 1999 collection of illustrated short stories written by Angus Oblong. The stories mostly feature children and adolescents, although one story is about a dog.

  3. Short & Shivery - Wikipedia

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    Short & Shivery, also known as Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales, is a series of scary short-story children's books, published between 1987 and 1998 and written by author Robert D. San Souci. The anthology series spawned several sequels throughout an 11-year span. Each book contained 30 tales from America and around the world, including ...

  4. Scary Tales - Wikipedia

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    Scary Tales" refers to several different versions of a Halloween-themed compilation of Walt Disney shorts, as well as an alternate and condensed version of "Disney's Halloween Treat" (1982) by the same name or derivation debuting in different years across various formats and countries: Scary Tales is a

  5. List of fictional tricksters - Wikipedia

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    Coyote - a figure in tales from various Native American cultures. Kitsune - In Japanese folklore, they are described as "tricksters" with no care for the concept of right or wrong. Kuma Lisa - A fox and trickster figure in Bulgarian folklore. Loki - A cunning, shape-shifting god, sometimes benefactor and sometimes foe to the gods of Asgard ...

  6. Scary Tales (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Scary Tales is a horror-suspense anthology comic book series that was published by Charlton Comics from 1975 to 1984. The book was "hosted" by Countess R. H. Von Bludd, an alluring female vampire in a tight-fitting dress. Artist Steve Ditko was a regular contributor to the book during its entire run.

  7. Ruth B. Bottigheimer catalogued this and other disparities between the 1810 and 1812 versions of the Grimms' fairy tale collections in her book, Grimms' Bad Girls And Bold Boys: The Moral And Social Vision of the Tales. Of the "Rumplestiltskin" switch, she wrote, "although the motifs remain the same, motivations reverse, and the tale no longer ...

  8. The New Mother - Wikipedia

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    The story ends sometime later with two brothers approaching the woman in the market, who opens the box to reveal the dancing figures of two girls, one with blue eyes and one with red skirts. "The New Mother" was adapted into the 2008 short film "Music Box", where the sisters are lured into misbehaving by a homeless woman to claim her music box .

  9. Griselda (folklore) - Wikipedia

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    One of Griselda's children is taken away from her in an illustration from Eliza Haweis' 1882 book Chaucer for Children. In the most famous version of the Griselda tale, written by Giovanni Boccaccio c. 1350, [1] [2] [3] Griselda marries Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo, who tests her by declaring that their two children—a son and a daughter—must both be put to death.