Most Popular Books by Alvin Schwartz

Les fantômes, ça n''existe pas ! Les araignées, c''est tout petit. Les psychopathes, même pas peur... Les sorcières, aucun pouvoir ! Ces histoires-là, vous n''y croyez pas ? Attendez donc qu''un ami vous les raconte, à la nuit tombée, ou de les lire seul, en tremblant sous la couette ! SI VOUS L''OSEZ ! Alvin Schwartz vous dira tout : esprits, revenants, épouvantails hantés et psychopathes en tout genre... Vos pires cauchemars vous attendent. Classique inoubliable de la littérature américaine, souvent mis à l''index, Scary Stories - Histoires effrayantes à raconter dans le noir revisite les légendes urbaines les plus terrifiantes, recueillies par Alvin Schwartz et illustrées par le redoutable Stephen Gammell. Adapté au cinéma par Guillermo del Toro « Schwartz a brillamment repris le folklore et les légendes urbaines pour les rendre accessibles aux jeunes lecteurs. C''est un coup de génie. » R. L. Stine (Chair de poule) « Ce livre vous fera claquer des dents et frémir d''effroi, c''est garanti. » School Library Journal « Lisez... si vous l''osez. » New York Times « À lire seul ou à haute voix, dans la pénombre. » Kirkus Reviews « Ce recueil d''histoires de sorcières, fantômes, chansons macabres, contes modernes et effrayantes légendes du passé fera courir des frissons le long de votre colonne vertébrale. » American Library Association Booklist

En esta colección de tres volúmenes, se recogen historias del folklore popular norteamericano. Una serie de narraciones que han tenido un gran éxito durante años en todo el mundo, ilustradas por el reputado artista Brett Helquist. Guillermo del Toro anunció que se encuentra trabajando en una adaptación a la pantalla grande. "Los primeros colonos norteamericanos solían entretenerse contando historias de miedo. Se reunían al anochecer en alguna cabaña, o alrededor de un fuego, y competían para demostrar quién era capaz de asustar más. Algunas chicas y chicos hacen lo mismo hoy día. Se reúnen en la casa de alguien, apagan las luces, comen palomitas de maíz, y se pegan unos sustos de muerte. Contar historias de miedo es algo que la gente ha hecho durante miles de años, y a la mayoría de nosotros nos gusta que nos asusten de esa manera. Algunas de estas leyendas son muy antiguas, y se cuentan en diversas partes del mundo. Y la mayoría de ellas tienen el mismo origen. Se basan en hechos que las personas vieron o escucharon o experimentaron, o que al menos piensan que así fue." Alvin Schwartz

With a trio of bestselling Halloween I Can Read Books--Ghosts! Ghostly Tales from Folklore by Alvin Schwartz, Creepy Crawly Critters and Other Halloween Tongue Twisters by Nola Buck, and In a Dark, Dark, Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz--young ghouls and ghosts are sure to be delighted. Full color.

Pirates and Spanish galleons, clues to undiscovered hoards, and more—here is a collection of rich lore and legends, facts and myths, that will appeal to the treasure-seeker in everyone. "I doubt that today''s kids will be able to resist Alvin Schwartz''s new collection of stories . . . It''s just as exciting as his earlier gatherings of tales." —The Washington Post Book World "An excellent work on a high-interest subject, this will be a natural for book talks." —Starred, Booklist An NCSS-CBC Notable Children''s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies

Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death -- they''re all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories.

A profound investigation into the shifting nature of identity and reality • Looks at the ways thought is embodied and how it takes on a life of its own • Shows how Superman, an archetype of popular culture, is a perfect example of the nonlocality of quantum physics Writer Alvin Schwartz received a great deal of attention from fans when he began talking publicly about his seventeen-year stint writing Superman and Batman comics. One of the individuals who contacted him was no ordinary fan, but a seven-foot Buddhist monk named Thongden, a tulpa or individual who was thought into being by a Tibetan mystic. Thongden put Alvin Schwartz on the path without form, an amazing journey he took in the company of Hawaiian kahunas, quantum physicists, and superheroes. Superman, as it turns out, is also a tulpa, a being created by thought that takes on a life of its own and, in Mr. Schwartz’s words, is an archetype expressing the sense of nonlocality that is always present in the back of our minds--that capacity to be everywhere instantly. Superman is one of the specific forms that embodies our reality when we’re at our highest point, when we’re truly impermeable, indestructible, totally concentrated, and living entirely in the now, a condition each of us actually attains from time to time. Alvin Schwartz’s story is a personal journey through a lifelong remembrance of synchrony, inspiration, accident, and magic. As it unfolds it puts into vivid clarity the saving grace that inhabits every moment of our lives. The author travels as a stranger in a strange land, whose greatest oddity is that this land is our own.

Traces the history and gives examples of puns, shaggy-dog stories, and other jokes from American humor of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Para todos aquellos que sean incondicionales de los relatos de miedo este libro recopila las historias más escalofriantes del folclore americano. ¿Es posible estar muerto y no darse cuenta? ¿Qué harías si un vampiro arañase tu ventana en plena noche? ¿Cuál es el peor castigo que puede recibir un ladrón de tumbas?

This second book in the Superman Sundays series collects nearly 170 sequential Sunday pages that have never been reprinted. These classic comics, beginning August 11, 1946 and continuing through October 16, 1949, fill another major gap in the Superman mythos. In a full eighteen adventures, Superman''s travels take him around the globe, as well as through time and space. The Man of Steel solves the case of the Curiosity Crimes, becomes a rival for Cleopatra''s affections in ancient Egypt, is exposed to radiation that turns him into Superbabe, battles a prehistoric animal called a "Paleomatzoball" (!), reprises the "Superman''s Service to Servicemen" series with a couple of good deeds for veterans, encounters an ancient civilization in the lost valley of Ru, meets up with Angus the talking dog, and to top it all off, witnesses Lois marrying Clark Kent--or does he?! It''s classic Superman fun written by Jerry Siegel and Alvin Schwartz, and drawn by Wayne Boring.

A collection of forty-six tongue twisters.

Cuando llega la muerte, lo normal es que la historia termine. Pero en estos relatos, la muerte es sólo el principio... ¿Crees que si la parca te saluda hay lugar donde esconderse? ¿Te asustaría oír pasos en medio de la noche sabiendo que solamente tú estás en casa? ¿Estás diciendo que nunca has visto un fantasma? ¡Cuidado con estas historias! Te dejarán sin aliento una vez más...

The Blowtop was the only American novel to reveal in exquisite detail how brutally the years immediately following the horrors of World War II reshaped the gentle Bohemian art world that preceded the war. Written in 1946, a year before Camus'' uncannily similar L''Etrangere, The Blowtop was not published until 1948 because of its unsparing revelations of a destructive and deadly art style. In the end, it was finally released in a mystery jacket. Soon after, The Blowtop became a cult book especially at Columbia University. In the spring of 1948 it was claimed that it sparked the Beat movement which presumably emerged out of discussions of a new art approach among students at Columbia, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg. Two years later, The Blowtop was taken up in Paris by followers of Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, whose excitement turned it into a best seller, where in 1950 it appeared under the title Le Cingle, published by Les Editions de L''Elan. The Blowtop opens in a Sheridan Street bar in the Village with the apparently pointless killing of a small-time marijuana dealer and slowly introduces the reader to the effect of this murder on a variety of Village types, artists, writers, barflies, academics and their various loves as it gradually uncovers the sources of an art movement that was to sweep the world with names like Jackson Pollock, Willem deKooning, and Hans Hofman. The purpose of their apparently nihilistic efforts was to get at the things that were left over -- that sense of value and spirit in the world that a war culminating in the atomic bomb had so thoroughly blasted away. It was this desperate effort to rediscover the things that matter through death, through sex, through art that challenges and enlightens the reader on every page of this revealing and powerful novel

More than 170 never-before-reprinted Superman Sundays from the 1950s. This second book (of three) features every Superman weekly strip from March 22, 1953 through June 24, 1956. In these tales, Superman encounters two escaped criminals from Krypton; challenges Lois to discover his secret identity in three different periods in history; battles the mysterious Prankster; meets the legendary Hercules; mixes it up with the Phantom Thief, a crook whom radiation turns invisible; encounters a flying horse named Comet (no, not the one belonging to Supergirl!); and is super-confused when he suffers from super-amnesia! Superman was created in 1938 by two ambitious Cleveland youngsters, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel. Their defender of the oppressed became an enduring smash sensation in comics, radio, animation, television, and motion pictures. He remains the little guy''s White Knight, battling terrestrial and extra-terrestrial menaces and standing for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

In 1941, during the peak of the Golden Age of Comics, the Green Arrow made his debut. Armed with only a bow and a quiver full of arrows, the Emerald Archer and his teen sidekick Speedy must battle corrupt gangsters, evil Nazis and deadly super-villains as a modern day Robin Hood. These adventures also included the debut of some of Oliver Queen and Roy Harper''s greatest weapons in their war on crime, such as the Arrowplane and an assortment of trick arrows! These groundbreaking classic stories--which started Green Arrow''s decades-spanning fandom--are gathered for the first time in this singular, expansive hardcover collection. GREEN ARROW: THE GOLDEN AGE OMNIBUS VOLUME ONE collects for the first time ever all of the Emerald Archer''s adventures from MORE FUN COMICS #73-107, ADVENTURE COMICS #103-117 and WORLD''S FINEST COMICS #7-28 and includes a foreword by legendary comics writer Roy Thomas.

Discusses the interrelationship of the city and its suburbs showing how the two must work together to plan for future needs.

Para todos aquellos que sean incondicionales de los relatos de miedo, este libro recopila las historias más escalofriantes del folclore americano.

Traces the growth of labor groups from pre-Revolutionary War societies to the AFL-CIO merger and discusses the organization and activities of unions today.

"Los muertos nos austan, porque un día también moriremos. La oscuridad nos asusta, porque no sabemos lo que aguarda ahí fuera. Por la noche, el rumor de las hojas, o el crujido de las ramas, o el susurro de alguien, nos hace sentir incómodos. Lo mismo ocurre cuando oímos pasos, o cuando creemos ver figuras extrañas en las sombras: tal vez un ser humano o un animal grande, o algo horrible que apenas podemos distinguir. Hoy día, la mayoría de la gente dice no creer en fantasmas y fenómenos extraños. Sin embargo, aún tenemos a los muertos y la oscuridad; aún vmeos al hombre del saco aguardado entre las sombras; y aún contamos historias de miedo, como hemos hecho desde siempre."--P. 4 of cover.

A paperback edition of the popular Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is accompanied by a cassette version of the book, some fake blood, and glow-in-the-dark fangs.

"Young readers will delight in Schwartz''s newest collection of frightening folk tales ... Schwartz''s choice of stories reflects his gift for recognizing what will motivate children to learn to read. Chess''s illustrations balance the scary stories by introducing many humorous touches."--The Horn Book

After encountering each other on vacation, Superman and Batman join forces to keep the world safe while agreeing to keep each other''s secret identities secret.

"Superman and Batman first teamed up in these stories from comics'' 1950s Silver Age, reprinted here for the first time in one massive hardcover. In these tales, which feature frequent guest stars Robin, Lois Lane, Commissioner Gordon, and Perry White, the two heroes battle crime in the past, present, and future, including each other''s greatest foes: Lex Luthor and The Joker!"--