Bones
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R.L. Stine
Robert Lawrence Stine has sold more than 350 million books in 32 languages, making him the bestselling children’s author of the twentieth century.
In 1992, R.L. wrote his first Goosebumps book, Welcome to Dead House. He has since written more than one hundred creepy Goosebumps titles—with more to come.
R.L.’s other popular book series include Fear Street, The Nightmare Room, Mostly Ghostly, and Rotten School.
R.L. says he woke up one morning, and the title and idea for “The Three-Eyed Man” popped into his head. “This never happened to me before,” he says. “I sat up in bed—and I could SEE the three-eyed man! It was scary! I had to go sketch out the story before I could have breakfast!”
R.L. lives in New York City with his wife, Jane, and King Charles spaniel, Minnie. You can find more scary stories, games, and author info at www.rlstine.com.
Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy is nearly seventy-four—an age at which horror stories about bones take on a curious authenticity. But then, she has enjoyed horror stories from an early age. She used to listen whenever possible (for her parents tried to prevent this happening) to a radio serial called The Phantom Drummer, which featured a vampire. The fascination with horror tales has continued to entertain her, for they touch on those mysterious and alarming aspects of imaginative possibility implicit in many ancient folktales—tales for the whole human community, which, though it rejoices in happy endings, also needs to have its fearful mysteries acknowledged, too.
Margaret was born (and lives) in New Zealand and is the author of more than 200 stories for children and young adults. She has twice won Britain’s Carnegie Medal for Children’s Literature and in 2006 was presented with the Hans Christian Andersen Award, which is given to a living author whose works have made a lasting contribution to children’s literature. Margaret is not only a writer but a fascinated reader as well, and feels she has been partly created by the stories … funny and frightening, gentle and poetic … that she has read over the years.
Enjoy the stories in this book! Those are her instructions!
Lois Metzger, Editor
Lois Metzger is the author of several young-adult novels, including Missing Girls (a New York Times Best Book for Children), and many short stories for anthologies all over the world.
In addition to editing Bones and its companion volume, Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into, she has edited three other collections of original short stories for Scholastic—The Year We Missed My Birthday, Can You Keep a Secret?, and Be Careful What You Wish For. She has also written two nonfiction books—Yours, Anne: The Life of Anne Frank and The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust (with Lola Rein Kaufman).
She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
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© 2010 “YNK (You Never Know)” by Todd Strasser
© 2010 “The Skeleton Keeper” by David Levithan
© 2010 “In for a Penny” by Elizabeth C. Bunce
© 2010 “Growth Spurt” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
© 2010 “Eyes on Imogene” by Richard Peck
© 2010 “The Three-Eyed Man” by Parachute Press, Inc.
© 2010 “Bones” by Margaret Mahy
Cover art by Lina Chen
Design by Janet Kusmierski
Compilation copyright © 2010 by Lois Metzger
Foreword © 2010 by Lois Metzger
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