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Spooky Virginia: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
Pull up a chair or gather 'round the campfire and get ready for thirty-four creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Virginia folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E. Schlosser and through artist Paul G. Hoffman's evocative illustrations. You'll meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. The stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.

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Spooky Virginia: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
Pull up a chair or gather 'round the campfire and get ready for thirty-four creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Virginia folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E. Schlosser and through artist Paul G. Hoffman's evocative illustrations. You'll meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. The stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.

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Spooky Virginia: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore

Spooky Virginia: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore

Spooky Virginia: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
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Spooky Virginia: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore

Overview

Pull up a chair or gather 'round the campfire and get ready for thirty-four creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Virginia folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E. Schlosser and through artist Paul G. Hoffman's evocative illustrations. You'll meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. The stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493069866
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 07/01/2023
Series: Spooky
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 284
Sales rank: 617,650
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

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. She created and maintains the Web site AmericanFolklore.net, where she shares a wealth of stories from all 50 states, some dating back to the origins of America.

Paul Hoffman illustrates books of many genres—children's titles, textbooks, short story collections, natural history volumes, and cookbooks. For the Spooky series, he employs a scratchboard technique and an active imagination.

Table of Contents

Map x

Introduction xiii

Part 1 Ghost Stories

1 Goggle-Eyed Jim: Great Dismal Swamp 2

2 The Convert: Coeburn 9

3 The Finger Bone: Lee County 16

4 Shep: Shenandoah Valley 25

5 Old House Woods: Mathews County 32

6 A love Betrayed: Williamsburg 39

7 Elbow Road: Virginia Beach 45

8 Shower of Stones: Newport 53

9 Angel: Fredericksburg 61

10 The Horseman: Bowling Green 70

11 Phantasie: Jamestown 80

12 Old 97: Danville 88

13 Bunny Man Bridge: Clifton 94

Part 2 Powers of Darkness and Light

14 The Witch's Shoulder: Big Laurel 100

15 The Fiddler and the Wolves: Grayson County 107

16 The White Dove: Danville 113

17 The Black Dog: Bedford County 121

18 Jack Ma Lantern: Front Royal 129

19 Kitty: Smyth County 138

20 Fire!: Richmond 145

21 Foul Smell: Alexandria 153

22 Trail of Blood: Gloucester 158

23 Rupp: Big Stone Gap 167

24 Devil in the Flour Barrel: Amherst County 178

25 Consecration: Mount Vernon 185

26 The Honest Wine Merchant: Richmond 192

Resources 198

Additional Chapter 202

About the Author 209

About the Illustrator 210

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