Spooky Ohio: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in this all-new addition to the best-selling Spooky series. Set in the Buckeye State’s big cities and rural communities, along the shores of Lake Erie in the north to the Appalachian Mountains in the south, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again.

Ohio’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 see the mystery of the missing postmaster’s cousin solved, relive the long night a ghost captain saved a sinking ship, laugh along with a prankster who capitalizes on a barber’s ghost, and feel an icy wind on the back of their necks on a warm Ohio 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.
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Spooky Ohio: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in this all-new addition to the best-selling Spooky series. Set in the Buckeye State’s big cities and rural communities, along the shores of Lake Erie in the north to the Appalachian Mountains in the south, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again.

Ohio’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 see the mystery of the missing postmaster’s cousin solved, relive the long night a ghost captain saved a sinking ship, laugh along with a prankster who capitalizes on a barber’s ghost, and feel an icy wind on the back of their necks on a warm Ohio 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.
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Spooky Ohio: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore

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

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

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

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Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in this all-new addition to the best-selling Spooky series. Set in the Buckeye State’s big cities and rural communities, along the shores of Lake Erie in the north to the Appalachian Mountains in the south, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again.

Ohio’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 see the mystery of the missing postmaster’s cousin solved, relive the long night a ghost captain saved a sinking ship, laugh along with a prankster who capitalizes on a barber’s ghost, and feel an icy wind on the back of their necks on a warm Ohio 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: 9781493044818
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 12/01/2020
Series: Spooky
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 1,039,382
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(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 website 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 over thirty other books in Globe Pequot's Spooky series. 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 Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part 1 Ghost Stories

1 One Hundred Skulls Kenton Ohio 2

2 An Unsolved Mystery: Liberty Township, Wood County 10

3 The Motorcycle: Oxford 18

4 The Hope Chest: Dayton 25

5 Red Rover: Toledo 33

6 Memorial: Put-In-Bay 39

7 Ohio State Reformatory: Mansfield 46

8 Isle of Pines: Gallipolis 53

9 The Barber's Ghost: Columbus 61

10 The Buxton Inn: Granville 67

11 Fido Returns: Cleveland 73

12 The Last Laugh: Ravenna 78

Part 2 Powers Of Darkness And Light

13 Marrying a Ghost: Cincinnati 86

14 The Hounds of Hell: Springfield 93

15 The Contract: Defiance 101

16 Devil Wind: Xenia 113

17 Ghost Oak: Doylestown 123

18 Flaming Reflection: Chillicothe 129

19 Sudden Snow: Cleveland 139

20 Bleeding Barn: Fort Recovery 144

21 Three Warnings: Ashtabula 151

22 Centennial Ghost: Cincinnati 160

23 Mother Makes the Match: Sandusky 168

24 Ghost Raiser: Chester 174

25 The Bloody Horseshoe: Somerset 183

Resources 190

About The Author 195

About The Illustrator 195

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