Spooky New York: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore

by S. E. Schlosser, Paul G. Hoffman (Illustrator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493040797
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2019
Series:	Spooky
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	431,060
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

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. She lives in Arizona.

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. He lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii

Part 1 Ghost Stories

1 The White Lady of the Lake: Irondequoit 2

2 The Party at Wild Goose Tavern: Ellis Island 11

3 The Gray Lady Richmond Town: Staten Island 16

4 Redemption: West Seneca 22

5 The Central Park Skaters: Manhattan 27

6 Buried Treasure: Liberty Island 34

7 The Fire Ship: Long Island Sound 39

8 Observatory: Empire State Building, Manhattan 45

9 The Rising of Gouverneur Morris: Morrisiana, The Bronx 51

10 Tug-of-War: Halfmoon 63

11 Going Fishin': Herkimer County 70

12 The Poker Game: Lowville 77

13 The Headless Horseman: Sleepy Hollow 83

14 The Satin Dress: Flushing, Queens 89

15 One Last Drink: New York City 93

16 The Fifty-Cent Piece: Speigletown 97

17 Piece by Piece: Poughkeepsie 102

18 Well Met in Times Square: Manhattan 106

19 The Governor's Ghost: Manhattan 112

Part 2 Powers of Darkness and Light

20 The Gold Tooth: Albany 122

21 The Night Riders: Copake 132

22 Rival Fiddlers: Brooklyn 153

23 Baker's Dozen: Albany 158

24 The Wizard in the Hollow: Sag Harbor, Long Island 165

25 Henry Hudson and the Kaatskill Gnomes: Catskill Mountains 169

26 The Maid of the Mist: Niagara Falls 176

27 The Hermit's House: Adirondack Mountains 181

28 The Loup-Garou's Debt: Mooers 187

29 Aunty Greenleaf and the White Deer: Brookhaven, Long Island 192

30 Van Wemple's Goose: Brooklyn 199

31 High Hat: Allegheny Region 206

32 The Ramapo Salamander: Rockland County 213

33 The Flying Canoe: Lake George 228

34 Jan Sol and the Monster: Wall Street Manhattan 236

35 The Lincoln Death Train: Albany 243

36 The Death Coach: Cohoes 247

37 Nine Eleven: Manhattan 251

38 The Noose: Leeds 258

Resources 266

About the Author 271

About the Illustrator 271