History Literature / ShortAndShivery

* DaylightHorror: The monster of "La Guiablesse" walks around during the daylight hours looking for victims. The sources section in the back of the book [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this.

* DaylightHorror: In "The Yara-Ma-Yha-Who", the titular creatures attack one of the brothers on a very sunny day when he takes shelter from the heat under a fig tree.

* WouldHurtAChild: The title monster in "The Maggot." Its last victim before being destroyed is a five-year-old boy.

* BenevolentBoss: The servant's master in "An Appointment in Samarra" quickly lets his servant borrow one of his horses to flee to his cousin's house when he comes home frightened after seeing Death in the marketplace.

* EvilMatriarch: The titular character of "The New Mother".

* WouldHurtAChild: The title monster in "The Maggot". Its last victim before being destroyed is a five-year-old boy.

1. ''Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales''[[labelnote:Contents]]''The Robber Bridegroom'' (adapted from the Brothers Grimm); ''Jack Frost'' (from a Russian folktale); ''The Waterfall of Ghosts'' (from the Japanese writings of Lafcadio Hearn); ''The Ghost's Cap'' (from a Russian folktale); ''The Witch Cat'' (folklore of the United States - Virginia); ''The Green Mist'' (a legend from Lincolnshire, England); ''The Cegua'' (a folktale from Costa Rica); ''The Ghostly Little Girl'' (United States - California); ''The Midnight Mass of the Dead'' (a Norse folktale); ''Tailypo'' (United States - West Virginia); ''Lady Eleanore's Mantle'' (from a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne); ''The Soldier and the Vampire'' (a Russian folktale); ''The Skeleton's Dance'' (a folktale from Japan); ''Scared To Death'' (United States - South Carolina); ''Swallowed Alive'' (a British folktale); ''The Deacon's Ghost'' (a folktale from Iceland); ''Nuckelavee'' (a folktale from Orkney Islands); ''The Adventure of the German Student'' (from a tale by Washington Irving); ''Billy Mosby's Night Ride'' (United States - New England); ''The Hunter in the Haunted Forest'' (a Native American Legend); ''Brother and Sister'' (retold from an African folktale); ''The Lovers of Dismal Swamp'' (United States - Virginia); ''Boneless'' (based on folklore of the Shetland Islands); ''The Death Waltz'' (United States - New Mexico); ''The Ghost of Misery Hill'' (United States - California); ''The Loup-Garou'' (from French-Canadian folklore); ''The Golem'' (based on Jewish folklore); ''Lavender'' (United States); ''The Goblin Spider'' (a Japanese legend); ''The Halloween Pony'' (from a French folktale). [[/labelnote]]\\
2. ''More Short & Shivery: Thirty Terrifying Tales''[[labelnote:Contents]]''"Hold Him Tabb!"'' (United States - Virginia); ''The Witches' Eyes'' (Spanish American - American Southwest); ''The Duppy'' (Haiti); ''Two Snakes'' (China); ''The Draug'' (Norway); ''The Vampire Cat'' (Japan); ''Windigo Island'' (Canada); ''The Haunted Inn'' (China); ''The Rolling Head'' (North America - Plains Indians); ''The Croglin Grange Vampire'' (British Isles - England); ''The Yara'' (Brazil); ''"Me, Myself"'' (British Isles - Scotland); ''Island of Fear'' (North America - Seneca Tribe); ''Three Who Sought Death'' (British Isles - England - from Geoffrey Chaucer); ''Sister Death and the Healer'' (Mexico / American Southwest); ''The Mouse Tower'' (Germany); ''The Devil and Tom Walker'' (United States - from a tale by Washington Irving); ''The Greedy Daughter'' (Italy); ''The Pirate'' (United States - adapted from a poem by Richard H. Dana); ''The Golden Arm'' (British Isles - England); ''The Serpent Woman'' (Spain); ''Loft the Enchanter'' (Iceland); ''The Accursed House'' (United States - Ohio); ''Escape up the Tree'' (Nigeria); ''The Headrest'' (Papua New Guinea); ''The Thing in the Woods'' (United States - Louisiana); ''King of the Cats'' (British Isles - England); ''The Dead Mother'' (Russia); ''Knock… Knock… Knock...'' (United States / Canada - urban folklore); ''Twice Surprised'' (Japan). [[/labelnote]]\\
3. ''Even More Short & Shivery: Thirty Spine-Tingling Tales''[[labelnote:Contents]]''Appointment in Samarra'' (Persia); ''Deer Woman'' (United States - Ponca Tribe); ''The Maggot'' (British Isles - England); ''Witch Woman'' (United States - African American traditional); ''The Berbalangs'' (Philippines); ''The Dancing Dead of Shark Island'' (British Isles - Ireland); ''"That I See, but This I Sew"'' (British Isles - Scotland); ''La Guiablesse'' (West Indies - Martinique); ''The Blood-Drawing Ghost'' (British Isles - Ireland); ''Guests from Gibbet Island'' (United States - from Washington Irving); ''The Haunted House'' (China); ''"Never Far from You"'' (British Isles - England); ''The Rose Elf'' (Denmark - from Hans Christian Andersen); ''The Wind Rider'' (Poland); ''The Skull That Spoke'' (Nigeria); ''The Monster of Baylock'' (British Isles - Ireland); ''The New Mother'' (British Isles - England); ''Rokuro-Kubi'' (Japan); ''Dicey and Orpus'' (United States - African American traditional); ''Chips'' (British Isles - from Charles Dickens); ''The Skeleton's Revenge'' (Mexico); ''Lullaby'' (British Isles - England); ''Death and the Two Friends'' (United States - South Carolina); ''Forest Ghosts'' (France); ''A Carolina Banshee'' (United States - North Carolina); ''The Deadly Violin'' (Germany - Jewish traditional); ''A Night of Terrors'' (United States - urban folklore); ''The Sending'' (Iceland); ''The Hand of Fate'' (British Isles - Wales); ''Old Raw Head'' (United States - the South). [[/labelnote]][[note]]An edition also exists labeled "Forty-five Spine Tingling Tales", which includes all thirty stories from this one, plus the second half of ''More Short and Shivery''.[[/note]]\\
4. ''A Terrifying Taste of Short & Shivery: Thirty Creepy Tales''[[labelnote:Contents]]''Crocker Waits'' (British Isles - England); ''Yara-ma-yha-who'' (Australia); ''The Fata'' (Italy); ''The Fiddler'' (British Isles - Wales); ''Land-Otter'' (Native American - Tlingit tribe); ''A Fish Story'' (United States - Virginia - African American traditional); ''Apparitions'' (Germany); ''The Bijli'' (India); ''The Lutin'' (Canada - French Canadian traditional); ''The Hundredth Skull'' (United States - Ohio); ''The Ogre's Arm'' (Japan); ''The Hairy Hands'' (British Isles - England); ''The Snow Husband'' (Native American - Algonquin tribe); ''The Zimwi'' (Africa - from the Swahili); ''Witchbirds'' (France); ''Dangerous Hill'' (British Isles - England); ''The Witch's Head'' (El Salvador); ''Dinkins Is Dead'' (United States - South Carolina); ''Old Nan's Ghost'' (British Isles - England); ''The Interrupted Wedding'' (Norway); ''The Mulombe'' (Africa - Zimbabwe); ''The Haunted Grove'' (Canada); ''The Tiger Woman'' (China); ''Peacock's Ghost'' (United States - Louisiana); ''Israel and the Werewolf'' (Poland - Jewish traditional); ''Hoichi the Earless'' (Japan - from Lafcadio Hearn); ''A Snap of the Fingers'' (Mexico); ''Narrow Escape'' (United States - California); ''The Black Fox'' (United States - Connecticut); ''The Mother and Death'' (Denmark - from Hans Christian Andersen). [[/labelnote]]

** The titular character of "The Robber Bridegroom" is a variant - he woos a woman, convinces her family to let him marry her, and then, once she's been brought to his home, he blinds her and forces her to be his housekeeper, never marrying her at all. Elsa is spared this fate when she arrives early, while her groom is away, and is told the truth by his last "bride". Together, they escape and expose the robber and his men for what they really are, and the robbers are put to death for their crimes.
** The demonic antagonist of "Brother and Sister", a were-hyena, marries a woman with the intention of murdering her and, with his hyena kin, devouring her.
* CannotCrossRunningWater: "Nuckelavee", but only if it's ''fresh'' water. It also gets repelled when it's splashed by water from a freshwater lake, and refuses to come out when it's raining.
* CassandraTruth:
** The cantina keeper tries to warn the hero against traveling at night because of the Cegua, but he just gets brushed off -- though his words are quickly proven correct.
** In "Brother and Sister", the young boy sees his sister's groom has a second mouth on the back of his head. When he tries to warn his mother, she accuses him of making it up. His father also refuses to believe him, threatening him with a beating if he makes trouble, and his friends won't help either.
* CreepySouvenir: "The Ghost's Cap" is stolen from a ghost one night as proof that the greedy Anya did indeed see him. Her refusal to return it when he comes for her, and then her throwing it in a river, results in her own death.
* DecoyDamsel: The Cegua appears to lone travelers at night as a beautiful woman needing help. This often convinces them to let her onto their horses, whereupon she kills her rescuer or drives him insane.
* DemonicPossession:
** "The Deacon's Ghost" features a demon taking over the body of a man who'd drowned and, using his body, coming after the woman the deacon had been engaged to. The demon is eventually exorcised, allowing the deacon to rest in peace.
** "The Adventure of the German Student" has a young man fall for a woman who turns out to be a corpse, having been guillotined the day before. On seeing this, the student believes she was brought back by a demon that tricked him into pledging his soul to it, allowing it to possess him in the girl's place.

** In "The Witch Cat", the witch returns to her true form when she dies. Her hand, which was severed when she was in the form of a cat, does not - it's still a cat's paw when it and the dead man holding it are found.
** In "The Loup-Garou", a werewolf reverts to its true form and runs off the instant the old man, Pierre, nicks it with his knife and draws blood from it.
* TooManyMouths: The antagonist of "Brother and Sister" has a second mouth on the back of his head in his human form.
* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: In "The Robber Bridegroom", the titular character left a trail of ashes leading his intended victim to his house. As a safety precaution, she adds a trail of beans and peas along the same path, which later helps her find her way home when she escapes (the ashes had since been blown away by the wind).

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* CinderellaCircumstances: "Jack Frost" features a girl whose stepmother and stepsister treat her like garbage and decide to abandon her in a forest to freeze to death. Instead the trickster Jack Frost takes pity on her and gives her furs and jewels. [[spoiler: The stepmother sends her daughter to get similar gifts from Jack Frost, but her horrible attitude leads to both their deaths (the stepsister freezes to death, the stepmother dies of shock on seeing her daughter's frozen corpse).]]