CONNER, Daniel , adapt The Picture of Dorian Gray illus. by Chris Allen. ISBN 978-1-60270-680-4 . LC 2009008597. DUNN, Joeming , adapt The Invisible Man illus. by Ben Dunn. ISBN 978-1-60270-677-4 . LC 2009008587. ea vol: 32p. (Graphic Horror Series). glossary. Web sites. CIP. ABDO/Magic Wagon/Graphic Planet 2009. PLB $18.95. Gr 5-9 For readers wanting a small shiver down their spines, these books will suffice. Stokers Dracula is succinct and well edited. The art is stale and tame and might titillate, but it wont produce any nightmares. The adaptation in Dorian Gray can be clunky at times but it covers the main points of the story. The beautiful and youthful Dorian Gray is never very attractive in the illustrations, but the decaying painting will appropriately disgust young readers. The story in The Invisible Man is heavily edited, and the action is crammed into a few pages, but the scenes in which the Invisible Man is on the loose are intense. The illustrations are fairly detailed and include some graphic scenes of blood and a nearly naked Invisible Man. All three books include information about the authors and a glossary. There are better adaptations of these novels available, but these titles provide slim and chilling reads that give a taste of the actual stories for reluctant readers. Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, Kearns Library, UT

These classic stories are presented in unabridged formats with attached ribbon bookmarks. Accompanying the texts are a handful of effectively creepy scratchboard drawings that illustrate choice details (e.g., in Poe's "Berenice," the "instruments of dental surgery" surrounded by extracted teeth). The books conclude with some generic open-ended questions.