Frightlopedia : an encyclopedia of everything scary, creepy, and spine-chilling, from arachnids to zombies / by Julie Winterbottom with contributions by Rachel Bozek ; illustrated by Stefano Tambellini.

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Winterbottom, Julie [author.]

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TextPublisher: New York : Workman Publishing, [2016]Description: 213 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

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volume

ISBN:

9780761183792
9781518156090
0761183795
1518156096

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Encyclopedias

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031.02 WIN 23

Contents:

Ahh, arachnids! spiders -- Ahh, arachnids! spider in the toilet -- Boo! -- Buried alive -- Capuchin catacombs --Claustrophobia -- Clinkity clink: ghost story -- Crocodiles -- Death, scared to Evil scientist -- Fake blood and fake wound -- Ghosts -- Ghosts around the world - Gomantong caves -- Haunted houses -- Haunt your own house --Island of the dolls - Island of snakes - Jellyfish -- Killer bees -Komodo dragon -- Lake Natron: petrifying waters -- Manchineel tree -- Monsters -- Mujina: ghost story -- Mummies -- Nepenthes, the flesh-eating plant -- The open window: ghost story -- Ouija board -- Paris catacombs -- Quicksand -- Rats -- Sandbox tree -- S�eance -- S�eance, hold your own -- Sharks -- Snakes -- Stinging tree -- Stonefish -- Tasmanian Devil -- Transylvania -- UFOs and aliens -- UFO alien message -- Urban legends -- Vampire bats -- Vampire bite -- Vampires -- Werewolves -- Witches -- Write your own ghost story -- Xylophobia -- Yeti -- Your biggest fear -- Zombies -- Zombify yourself.

Summary: Combining fact, fiction, and hands-on activities; an illustrated A-Z collection of some of the world's most frightening places, scariest stories, and gruesomest creatures, both real and imagined. Discover Borneo's Gomantong Cave, where literally millions of bats, cockroaches, spiders, and rats coexist--in pitch darkness. Learn about mythical creatures like the Mongolian Death Worm--and scarily real ones like killer bees, which were accidentally created by scientists in the 1950s. Visit New Orleans's Beauregard-Keyes house, where Civil War soldiers are said to still clash in the front hall. Plus ghost stories from around the world, a cross-cultural study of vampires, and how to transform into a zombie with makeup.

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Combining fact, fiction, and hands-on activities; an illustrated A-Z collection of some of the world's most frightening places, scariest stories, and gruesomest creatures, both real and imagined. Discover Borneo's Gomantong Cave, where literally millions of bats, cockroaches, spiders, and rats coexist--in pitch darkness. Learn about mythical creatures like the Mongolian Death Worm--and scarily real ones like killer bees, which were accidentally created by scientists in the 1950s. Visit New Orleans's Beauregard-Keyes house, where Civil War soldiers are said to still clash in the front hall. Plus ghost stories from around the world, a cross-cultural study of vampires, and how to transform into a zombie with makeup.