Most Popular Books by Alvin Schwartz

Estas historias de miedo te llevarán en un viaje extraño y temible, donde la oscuridad o la niebla o la bruma o el grito de una persona o el aullido de un perro convierten lugares comunes en lugares de pesadilla, donde nada es lo que esperas. Las historias de miedo tienen a menudo un propósito serio. Pueden advertir a los jóvenes de los peligros que les esperan cuando se enfrenten al mundo por su cuenta. Pero generalmente, contamos historias de miedo para divertirnos. Apagamos las luces, o dejamos sólo una vela encendida. Entonces nos sentamos en círculo y contamos las historias más aterradoras que conocemos. Te recomiendo que leas las historias de este libro, mientras todavía sientas valor en ti y antes de que oscurezca.

Los muertos nos asustan, pues un día nosotros estaremos muertos igual que ellos. La oscuridad nos asusta, pues no sabemos lo que nos espera en la oscuridad. Por la noche, el sonido del crujir de las hojas, o de las ramas azotadas por el viento, o alguien susurrando, nos hace sentir incómodos. Lo mismo ocurre cuando oímos pasos acercarse, 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 en día la mayoría de la gente dice que no cree en los fantasmas y los fenómenos extraños. Sin embargo, todavía temen a los muertos y a la oscuridad. Y todavía ven al hombre del saco aguardando entre las sombras. Y todavía cuentan historias de miedo, como se ha hecho siempre.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

A collection of forty-six tongue twisters.

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

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...

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.

"American popular culture has produced few heroic figures as famous and enduring as that of the Batman. The dark, mysterious hero who debuted in 1939''s Detective Comics #27 as the lone "Bat-man quickly grew into the legend of the Caped Crusader. After his landmark debut and origin story, the Dark Knight was given many seminal elements including his partner in crime fighting, Robin, the Boy Wonder, and such adversaries as the Joker, The Penguin, Scarecrow and Catwoman." -- Page [4] of cover.

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

Retellings of over two dozen tales about abandoned graveyards and ghastly deeds.

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

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!"--