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Spooky South: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore by S.E. Schlosser
Available at bookstores everywhere.Contact: Gwen Forrest, Publicist
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"All I want's my Tailypo!" the creature shrieked outside the dark cabin, thus sealing the fate of the old man within. Meet a Tennessee hermit who learns too late that he should be kind to strange animals. Tailypo 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 Army of the Dead, which marches at night through the streets of Charleston
- The Ghost of Blackbeard, who searches for his head through the inlets of North Carolina
- General Jackson and the Bell Witch of Tennessee
- A Jack O' Lantern that roams the swamps in Alabama, luring people to their doom
- A Death Watch that ticks in a West Virginia mine just before someone is killed
- A mansion built to house the Devil's mistress in New Orleans
- The Woman in Black who haunts a graveyard in Savannah
- Plus 23 more Southern ghosts and spooks ranging from the a corpse who returns from the grave to play the fiddle in a contest to a Mississippi girl who barely escapes from an evil spirit called a Plat-eye.
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 Southwest, and Spooky New York.
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 South
Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore Retold by: S.E. Schlosser
$11.95 Trade Paper 208 PAGES 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 ISBN: 0-7627-3063-3 May 2004
Available at bookstores everywhere.
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