German writer's penning long, scary tales (5-8)
I believe the answer is:
spine-chillers
'tales' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'german writer's penning long scary' is the wordplay.
'german writer' becomes 'schiller' (I've seen this before).
'penning' indicates putting letters inside.
'long' becomes 'pine' (to pine for someone is to long for them).
'scary' becomes 's' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'schiller' going around 'pine' is 'spinechiller'.
'spinechiller'+'s'='SPINE-CHILLERS'
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I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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