Terrifying Tales

This series features nine stories of spine-tingling suspense. Read these tales of terror – if you dare!

This series contains fictional frighteners such as “Dr Faustus”, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Sherlock Holmes’ famous encounter with the “Hound of the Baskervilles”. It includes: terrifying true stories, including the cursed Aborigine Kinjika and the body-snatchers Burke and Hare. Dramatic illustrations will bring these ghastly characters vividly to life – but your own imagination will add horrors of its own! It is exciting reading for (brave) 8- to 12-year-olds. The fearful fictional figures of the blood-sucking vampire Count Dracula, Victor Frankenstein’s living-dead creation and the evil magic of an Egyptian mummy’s tomb are frightening enough… but the true stories that join them in this chilling collection are no less gruesome.

Dracula

Vampires make for scary monsters and the most fearsome bloodsucker of all, could very well be, Dracula. Meet Count Dracula, the spooky but fascinating vampire from Transylvania! Join this spine-tingling adventure and discover the world of one of literature’s most famous villains in a fang-tastic way!

➜ English version
➜ Afrikaans version

A Monstrous Creation

This is a spooky story about a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who creates a monstrous creature. The creature, abandoned and misunderstood, seeks companionship, but a series of misunderstandings lead to tragedy and revenge.

➜ English version
➜ Afrikaans version

The Barbarous Barber

In this eerie tale, a small, unsuspecting town is plagued by a sinister barber who offers free haircuts to children. However, the children who take him up on his offer mysteriously vanish, leaving behind nothing but their shorn hair.

➜ English version
➜ Afrikaans version

The Devil’s Bargain

In a small, eerie village, a group of curious children stumble upon a legend that warns of the “Devil’s Bargain”, a dark and sinister pact made with an otherworldly being. They uncover a mysterious book that reveals the secrets of the pact, promising incredible powers but at a dreadful cost.

➜ English version
➜ Afrikaans version

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