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Shelley
adapted by Larry Weinberg
    I had to make other parts of the creature myself. He was going to be big. Eight feet tall! And stronger than any man or woman on earth.
    At last I was ready. It was a cold and gloomy night in November. The room was dark when I went in. The creature lay on the table. It was a thing of death. But soon it would have life!

Dracula
    BY B RAM S TOKER
ADAPTED BY S TEPHANIE S PINNER
    T hat night Jonathan was shaving in his room. He used a small mirror that he had brought from England. There were no mirrors in the castle.
    He heard someone behind him. It was the Count. But the Count did not appear in Jonathan’s mirror. Jonathan turned white. A terrible thought came to him. The Count was not human!

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Martin, Les.
Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of terror / adapted by Les Martin.
      p.   cm.
“A Stepping Stone Book.”
SUMMARY : Presents four chilling tales adapted for easy reading.
eISBN: 978-0-307-75897-2
1. Horror tales, American.  2. Children’s stories, American. [1. Horror stories.  2. Short stories.] I. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849. Short stories. Selections.  II. Title: Tales of terror.
PZ7.M36353Ed   2007  [Fic]—dc22  2006022150
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