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Loading... Spooky New York: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore (Spooky) (edition 2005)by S. E. Schlosser
Work InformationSpooky New York: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore by S. E. Schlosser
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)398.209747Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Folklore Folk literature History, geographic treatment, biography North American folktales Northeastern U.S. New YorkLC ClassificationRatingAverage: (3.2)
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Spooky USA is one of my favourite folklore/ghost stories series. This one is more folklore than true haunting stories, but no less entertaining. Moreover, every story echoes the state's extraordinary, enchanting, and bloody history.
Watch the Central Park Skaters glide gracefully on the frozen lake in the iconic park in Manhattan, and witness the sorrow of the Gray Lady in Staten Island over the tragic death of two young men. Seek the buried treasure in Liberty Island and look on the horizon for the Fire Ship in Long Island Sound. A young woman can be seen weeping for her lost fiance in the Observatory of the Empire State Building and a brave man returns from the Beyond to protect his young family. A kind ghost wants to go fishing and a man addicted to gambling is dissuaded from playing by the spectre of his wife. A galloping Hessian can be seen in Tarrytown, echoing Irving’s Headless Horseman and a dress brings extreme bad luck to a young girl from Queens.
Rival fiddlers can be heard in Brooklyn and a baker in Albany understands the meaning of the phrase ‘’a baker’s dozen’’. The legend of the Maid of the Mist sings in Niagara Falls, in Rockland County a salamander becomes an omen death, following the repercussions of a tragic tale. Hard to believe the legend of Jan Sol and the monster in Wall Street once you stand in the one place of the Earth where nowadays empires rise and fall, and in Allegheny region, a mysterious figure in a high hat causes terror.
The most fascinating tale is the Night Riders of Copake, a story of a pact between a brilliant girl and an evil warlock. A story straight out of Katherine Arden’s pen. (