Shivers (from Days with frog and toad) / by Arnold Lobel -- The green ribbon (from In a dark, dark room and other scary stories) / retold by Alvin Schwartz ; pictures by Dirk Zimmer -- Halloween (from EEK! Stories to make you shriek) / by Jane O'Connor ; pictures by G. Brian Karas -- Henry's bedtime story (from The happy Hocky family) / by Lane Smith -- The dark wood (from BOO! Stories to make you jump) / compiled by Laura Cecil ; pictures by Emma Chichester Clark -- Bloody fingers (from Five funny frights) / by Judith Bauer Stamper ; pictures by Tim Raglin -- Something at the window (from Ant plays bear) / by Betsy Byars ; pictures by Marc Simont.