title: Mostly Ghostly Stories (Time for a Tale)
author: David Holt
description: Grade 5 Up-With Mostly Ghostly Stories, David Holt once again shows why he is considered a Master Storyteller. With the very first story, "The Jealous Bones of Aaron Kelly," listeners are enthralled not only by the story, but also by the playing of the harmonica and the clacking bones. The stories are exciting and frightful, yet appropriate for most family listening. The banjo and harmonica music adds just the right touch. "The Titanic" and "Fancy" are based on historical events, while multicultural traditions from South Carolina to Ireland to the Blue Ridge Mountains are represented as well. Since some of the stories are violent, the tape is recommended for listeners in the upper elementary grades and above.<br /><i>Pat Griffith, Schlow Memorial Library, State College, PA</i><br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  _As well as the ever-popular premature burial, every writer of_
  _shock/suspense tales should write at least one story about the_ _Ghostly Room
  At The Inn. This is my version of that story. The_ _only unusual thing about
  it is that I never intended to finish it. I_ _wrote the first three or four
  pages as part of an appendix for my_ On Writing _book, wanting to show readers
  how a story evolves from_ _first draft to second. Most of all, I wanted to
  provide concrete exam-_ _ples of the principles I’d been blathering about in
  the text. But_ _something nice happened: the story seduced me, and I ended up_
  _writing all of it. I think that what scares us varies widely from one_
  _individual to the next (I’ve never been able to understand why_ _Peruvian
  boomslangs give some people the creeps, for example), but_ _this story scared
  me while I was working on it. It originally_ _appeared as part of an audio
  compilation called_ Blood and Smoke, _and the audio scared me even more.
  Scared the_ he