Spooky New York by S.E. Schlosser: Tales of hauntings, strange happenings, and other local lore.

Spooky New York by S.E. Schlosser

"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 characters found in this folklore collection by S.E. Schlosser.

You will also encounter:

The Galloping Hessian (Listen), a headless horseman who later featured in Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A wizard who enslaves a young girl in Copake.
A goose, a "ghost", some pirates, and roly-poly Nicholas Van Wemple of Brooklyn
A ghost who likes to play Tug-of-War in Halfmoon
A vampire who preys on travelers in the Adirondacks
The Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls
Plus 23 other New York ghosts and spooks, including ice-skating ghosts in Manhattan's Central Park (Listen) and the White Lady of the Lake in Rochester who just does not like men!

Read the press release
Read the TABLE OF CONTENTS
Listen to an interview with the author (11.9 mb download)
Darren Levy of WNYU speaks with S.E. Schlosser
on Citywide, New York University's radio arts talk show.

Price:	$11.95
Pub. Date:	5/1/2005
ISBN:	0762734264
Edition:	First edition
Binding:	Paperback
Page Count:	240
Trim Size:	5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Publisher:	Globe Pequot
Imprint:	Globe Pequot

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part One: Ghost Stories

1. The White Lady of the Lake - Irondequoit/Rochester
2. Party at Wild Goose Tavern - Ellis Island
3. The Gray Lady - Richmond Town, Staten Island
4. Redemption - West Seneca
5. The Central Park Skaters - Manhattan
6. Buried Treasure - Liberty Island
7. The Phantom Fire Ship - The Bronx and Long Island Sound
8. Observatory - Empire State Building, Manhattan
9. The Rising of Gouverneur Morris - Morrisiana, The Bronx
10. Tug-of-War - Halfmoon
11. Going Fishin' - Herkimer County
12. The Poker Game - Lowville
13. The Galloping Hessian - Tarrytown
14. The Satin Dress - Flushing, Queens
15. One Last Drink - Manhattan

Part Two: Powers of Darkness and Light

16. The Gold Tooth - Albany
17. The Night-riders - Copake
18. Rival Fiddlers - Brooklyn
19. Baker's Dozen - Albany
20. The Wizard in the Hollow - Sag Harbor, Long Island
21. Henry Hudson and the Kaatskil Gnomes - Catskill Mountains
22.The Maid of the Mist - Niagara Falls
23. The Hermit's House - Adirondack Mountains
24. The Loup-Garou's debt - Mooers
25. Aunty Greenleaf and the White Deer - Brookhaven, Long Island
26. Van Wemple's Goose - Brooklyn
27. High Hat - Alleghany County
28. The Ramapo Salamander - Rockland County
29. The Flying Canoe - Lake George
30. Jan Sol and the Monster - Wall Street, Manhattan

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 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 Series, including Spooky New England, Spooky Campfire Tales, Spooky New Jersey, Spooky Pennsylvania, Spooky California, Spooky South, and Spooky Southwest.

About the Illustrator
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.

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