{"product_id":"50-ghost-stories-for-middle-school-paperback","title":"50 Ghost Stories for Middle School - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClara M. Everhart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e50 companion stories. 322 discussion questions. 111 classroom activities. One collection built entirely from the edges of the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery ghost story worth telling leaves someone standing just outside its frame - a neighbor who heard the shriek but not the confession, a housekeeper who buried the last tenant and warned the next one anyway, an innkeeper who kept a private ledger of things she officially didn't believe in. This collection is built entirely from those overlooked vantage points.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the fifty companion stories is a brand-new work of fiction, written to stand alongside a classic public-domain ghost story your students may already know, or may be meeting here for the first time. Rather than retelling the original tale, each side story imagines a minor character, a bystander, a peripheral witness, and asks what the same haunting looked like from just a few steps to the left of where the famous version was standing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will meet familiar names - Poe, Dickens, Stoker, Twain, Irving, Wilde - alongside quieter masters of the form less often assigned in the classroom: M. R. James's antiquarian unease, Sheridan Le Fanu's slow-building dread, Ambrose Bierce's spare frontier horror, and the dry wit of Saki. Every pairing includes the same four elements: the companion story itself; Teaching Notes offering historical context and content guidance; Discussion Questions for whole-class conversation or written reflection; and Classroom Activities scaled from a single class period to a multi-day project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is our hope that this collection helps students discover something ghost stories have always known: that the most interesting haunting is rarely the one standing center stage. It's the one glimpsed sideways, by someone who was only ever meant to be a witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924012466483,"sku":"9798235728745","price":35.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/HV-zIHrThh9798235728745.webp?v=1793828978","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/50-ghost-stories-for-middle-school-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}