Learn and Explore

Unit 5:  Fear This!

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p. 391 Unit Launch

• Read classic horror stories by famous writers like Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and H.G. Wells.
• Learn what science has to say about fear and where it comes from.
• Read frightening and funny urban legends that prey on the fears we all share.

p. 398 Saki

• Read more of Saki's work.
• Listen to a reading of "The Interlopers."

p. 422 Jane Yolen

• Visit the Writer's Web site.
• Listen to storytellers perform scary stories.

p. 448 Edgar Allen Poe

• Read more of Poe's work.
• Learn more about Gothic horror stories.