Spooky Old Woods
Stories of Suspense
By Mary E. MacEwen
24 Aug, 2025
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
Mary E. MacEwen’s 1963 Stories of Suspense is a collection of suspenseful stories.
While schools in the 1960s and 1970s weren’t exactly keen on speculative fiction, there was a publisher schools saw as safe: Scholastic Books1. Therefore, science fiction, fantasy, or adjacent genres published by Scholastic had pretty good odds of ending up in a classroom library.
In the case of MacEwen’s Stories of Suspense, that classroom was in Wilmot Senior Public School, New Hamburg, on Bleam’s Road2.