1.   Others recite horror tales about the way things used to be.

2.   Stevenson incorporates elements of ballet classics in this neo-romantic production, much as Stoker borrowed from other famous Gothic horror tales.

3.   Some complain that these horror tales are the literary equivalent of junk food at best, nightmare-makers at worst.

4.   Success stories outnumber horror tales.

5.   Take R.L. Stine, whose Goosebumps and Fear Street series of juvenile horror tales are the hottest things in publishing.

6.   The studio vaults are apparently crammed with horror tales.

7.   These juvenile horror tales, cranked out at the rate of almost one a month by New York author R.L. Stine, are the hottest thing in publishing.

8.   Unlike many other types of books aimed at the same age group, horror tales appeal equally to boys and girls.

9.   While third- through sixth-graders are devouring the Goosebumps series, their slightly older siblings are also reading horror tales by the haunted houseful.

10.   You believe the horror tales of skin cancer and premature wrinkles and other damage the sun can cause.