TY - BOOK AU - Winterbottom,Julie AU - Bozek,Rachel AU - Tambellini,Stefano TI - Frightlopedia: an encyclopedia of everything scary, creepy, and spine-chilling, from arachnids to zombies SN - 9780761183792 U1 - 031.02 WIN 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York PB - Workman Publishing KW - Curiosities and wonders KW - Juvenile literature KW - Fear KW - Encyclopedias KW - Ghost stories KW - lcgft N1 - Bloodcurdling places, creatures, ghost stories and more!--Cover; 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; School Library Journal, August 2016; Booklist, September 2016; 8.9; 3-6 N2 - 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 ER -