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  <titleInfo>
    <title>In a dark, dark room and other scary stories</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Schwartz, Alvin</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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    <role>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Zimmer, Dirk</namePart>
    <role>
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  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <genre authority="">Ghosts Fiction</genre>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Schoslatic Inc.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1984</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>63 pages :  color illustrations ;  23 cm. </extent>
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  <abstract>Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries. </abstract>
  <tableOfContents>The teeth -- In the graveyard -- The green ribbon -- In a dark, dark room -- The night it rained -- The pirate -- The ghost of John -- Where the stories come from. </tableOfContents>
  <targetAudience>Children </targetAudience>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">retold by Alvin Schwartz ; illustrated by Dirk Zimmer. </note>
  <note>Kim Roxan A. Aying Kindergarten / Preparatory Fiction</note>
  <note>English </note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Folklore</topic>
    <topic>Juvenile literature</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Short stories</topic>
    <topic>Juvenile literature</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Horror stories</topic>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="isbn">059045028X [paperback]</identifier>
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