New from the team that has brought us Spooky New England and other Spooky titles are thirty classic creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurences.
Expert storytelling and evocative illustrations once again prove perfect for reading aloud or retelling later.
Whether gathered around the campfire or read on a dark and stormy night, these tales will stay with you long after you close the book's covers.
About the Author: Author Biography - Sandy Schlosser Some of my first memories are of my father reading me the Chronicles of Narnia.
He had the most annoying habit of reading only one chapter a night.
I remember learning to read as quickly as possible so that I could sneak ahead in the book to find out what happened next.
I am not sure exactly when I began to write.
I told myself stories constantly as a child.
Games of Let's pretend quickly built themselves into full-length stories that my friends and I would act out.
I am afraid I never grew out of let's pretend; I could entertain myself for hours writing stories in my head.
One of the first stories I wrote down was for a class in seventh grade.
The teacher had our stories evaluated by a published author.
Unfortunately, my story (a spooky Halloween tale) did not even merit a mention.
Rather crushed by this event, I gave up on the idea of training to be a writer and went on to receive a music degree from Houghton College.
Oddly enough, I wrote my first full-length manuscript during college for a friend who also liked to write stories.
It was after college that I began taking classes in writing from the Institute of Children's Literature.
Encouraged to write articles for magazines, I became intrigued with folklore and the retelling of folktales.
Most of the children's magazines were publishing folktales, but I noticed that these were either retellings of well-known stories or folklore from other countries.
Where, I wondered, were the old American folktales that used to entertain our anc.
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Globe Pequot Press Spooky campfire tales: tales of hauntings, strange happenings, and supernatural lore, paperback/s. e. schlosser
