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Spooky New York S. E. Schlosser

Spooky New York By S. E. Schlosser

Spooky New York by S. E. Schlosser


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SeriesSpooky

Summary

New York's folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Scholosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman's evocative illustrations.

Spooky New York Summary

Spooky New York: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore by S. E. Schlosser

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 S. E. Schlosser

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: Ghost Stories 1. The White Lady of the Lake Irondequoit 2. Party at Wild Goose Tavern Ellis Island 3. The Gray Lady Richmond Town, Staten Island 4. Redemption West Seneca 5. The Central Park Skaters Manhattan 6. Buried Treasure Liberty Island 7. The Phantom Fire Ship The Bronx and Long Island Sound 8. Observatory Empire State Building, Manhattan 9. The Rising of Gouverneur Morris Morrisiana, The Bronx 10. Tug-of-War Halfmoon 11. Going Fishin' Herkimer County 12. The Poker Game Lowville 13. The Galloping Hessian Tarrytown 14. The Satin Dress Flushing, Queens 15. One Last Drink New York City Part Two: Powers of Darkness and Light 16. The Gold Tooth Albany 17. The Night-riders Copake 18. Rival Fiddlers Brooklyn 19. Baker's Dozen Albany 20. The Wizard in the Hollow Sag Harbor, Long Island 21. Henry Hudson and the Kaatskil Gnomes Catskill Mountains 22. The Maid of the Mist Niagara Falls 23. The Hermit's House Adirondack Mountains 24. The Loup-Garou's debt Mooers 25. Aunty Greenleaf and the White Deer Brookhaven, Long Island 26. Van Wemple's Goose Brooklyn 27. High Hat Alleghany County 28. The Ramapo Salamander Rockland County 29. La Chaisse-Gallerie Lake George 30. Jan Sol and the Monster Wall Street, Manhattan

Additional information

GOR004540645
9780762734269
0762734264
Spooky New York: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore by S. E. Schlosser
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
2005-04-15
232
N/A
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