title: Nightwaves: Scary Tales for After Dark
author: Collin A. McDonald
description: Grade 4-6-- This collection of eight scary tales is right on target; each story is more intriguing than the one before. Readers are continually surprised, repelled, scared, and appalled at the turn of events that takes place in each superb narrative. When Janet expresses her dislike of helping her mother with her flower garden, she is slowly transformed into a geranium. Tom builds a radio that tells tomorrow's news today. A music teacher sells her orphan students' souls to keep her youth. A spell found in an old magic book turns an ordinary dog into a beast of prey. McDonald weaves his magic creating and sustaining an appropriately scary mood that will delight youngsters and be ideal for reading aloud. Storytellers looking for new materials can find a fresh approach; children are sure to select the book because of the interesting cover art. This book is a welcome addition for lovers of Leach's The Thing at the Foot of the Bed (Philomel, 1987) and Whistle in the Graveyard (Puffin, 1982). --Molly Kinney, North Dade Regional Library, Miami, FL<br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # The Night Wire
  
  
  ### H. F. Arnold
  
  
  
  
  
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  "New York, September 30 CP FLASH
  
  
  "Ambassador Holliwell died here today. The end came
  
  
  suddenly as the ambassador was alone in his study...."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  There is something ungodly about these night wire jobs. You sit up here on the
  top floor of a skyscraper and listen in to the whispers of a civilization. New
  York, London, Calcutta, Bombay, Singapore — they're your next-door neighbors
  after the streetlights go dim and the world has gone to sleep.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Alone in the quiet hours between two and four, the receiving operators doze
  over their sounders and the news comes in. Fires and disasters and suicides.
  Murders, crowds, catastrophes. Sometimes an earthquake with a casualty list as
  long as your arm. The night wire m