SPOOKY NEW YORK Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore

RETOLD BY S.E. SCHLOSSER

ISBN 10: 0762734264 / ISBN 13: 9780762734269

Published by INSIDER'S GUIDE, GUILFORD, CT, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SPOOKY NEW YORK Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
• Publisher: INSIDER'S GUIDE, GUILFORD, CT
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762734264
• ISBN 13: 9780762734269
• Binding: PAPERBACK
• Illustrator: Hoffman, Paul
• Edition: 7TH
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Folklore and Legends

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Synopsis

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for thirty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in New York. Set in the Empire State's big cities, historic towns, rugged lakes, and sparsely populated backwoods, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again. New York's folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and in artist Paul Hoffman's evocative illustrations. Readers will meet the White Lady of Rochester, dance to the rival fiddlers in Brooklyn, hear otherworldly voices in the Catskills, and run into the things that go bump in the night on Long Island--or simply feel an icy wind on the back of their necks on a warm New York evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's, this is a collection to treasure.

About the Author

S. E. Schlosser has been telling stories since she was a child, when games of "let's pretend" quickly built themselves into full-length stories. A graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature and Rutgers University, she also created and maintains the Web site AmericanFolklore.net, where she shares a wealth of stories from all fifty states, some dating back to the origins of America. She is also the author of Globe Pequot's Spooky New England, Spooky South, and Spooky Southwest. Paul G. Hoffman trained in painting and printmaking, with his first extensive illustration work on assignment in Egypt, drawing ancient wall reliefs for the University of Chicago. His work graces books of many genres--children's titles, textbooks, short story collections, natural history volumes, and numerous cookbooks. For the Spooky series he employed a scratchboard technique and an active imagination.