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

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"What's the matter with me then, George?" the deceased demanded in an irate tone. "I was always good enough to drink with ye in the old days!" Meet a Manhattan corpse who insists upon having a drink of whiskey before he will rest in peace in One Last Drink. Paddy O'Dell is just one of 30 spooky New York characters found in these expertly retold folktales by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser.

You will also encounter:
  • The Galloping Hessian, a headless horseman who later featured in Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow


  • A wizard in Copake who enslaves a young girl


  • A goose, a "ghost", some pirates, and roly-poly Nicholas Van Wemple of Brooklyn


  • The Albany settler responsible for the Baker's Dozen


  • The Maid of the Mist from Niagara Falls


  • A vampire hermit preying on travelers in the Adirondacks


  • Henry Hudson and the nine-pin playing Catskill gnomes


  • Plus 23 more New York ghosts and spooks ranging from the ice-skating ghosts in Manhattan's Central Park to the White Lady of Rochester, who just doesn't like men.
Each story is accompanied by artist Paul Hoffman's evocative illustrations. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van, the stories in this collection will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again.

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.

Spooky New York
Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore Retold by: S.E. Schlosser

$11.95 Trade Paper 240 PAGES 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 ISBN: 0-7627-3426-4 May 2005

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