Synopses & Reviews
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 from times past. Set in remote cattle ranches and abandoned mining camps, on windswept mesas and dry desert seas, in small towns and native settlements, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.
Southwestern folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser, and in artist Paul Hoffmans evocative illustrations. Youll meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandmas, this is a collection to treasure.
Review
Amazon review of Spooky New England:
***** A great read!, September 23, 2003
Reviewer: A reader from Chicago, IL
The ghost stories in this collection are spooky indeed! This book is a fast read, with great illustrations and stories that will keep you coming back again and again. My favorite stories are The Telltale Seaweed from Cape Cod, The Loup Garou from Rhode Island and At the Sign of the Sir Charles which has a trick ending!
Some of the stories are scary, some eerie, and some of them made me laugh. This book would be great to take camping -- the stories are perfect for reading around a campfire.
Hope we see more from this author.
Synopsis
Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened--and still do happen--in the collective backyard of the Southwestern states: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Accompanied by evocative illustrations, these compelling retellings of thirty popular folktales feature supernatural occurrences and ghosts of all sorts, from cattle rustlers to runaway trains, laughing ghosts to arm-wrestling skeletons. Whether read around the campfire or from the backseat of the family van, each expertly told tale is guaranteed to make readers look at the American Southwest--and over their shoulders--again and again. Other books in the Spooky series include new England and the South.
Synopsis
A collection of 30 folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world.
About the Author
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 50 states, some dating back to the origins of America.
Artist Paul 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 Spooky Southwest, he employed a scratchboard technique and an active imagination.