"If you have ever felt a chill as you walked past a Vermont graveyard,
or stopped by a small New Hampshire country inn for the night and knew
there was something watching you, or felt an unseen hand brush against
you on a mountain in Maine, you will love Spooky New England. And if
you don't believe in ghosts-you will
                         -Michael Carlton, Editor, Yankee Magazine

SPOOKY NEW ENGLAND
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0762728728/qid=10650260...

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 30
creepy tails of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange
occurrences in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, and Massachusetts. Set in New England's historic towns,
charming old islands, and sparsely populated backwoods, the stories in
this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over
your shoulder again and again.

Yankee folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master
storyteller S.E. Scholosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman's evocative
illustrations. You'll meet seaweed-covered phantom sailors and a
ghostly black dog, hear other-worldly voices and things that go bump
in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm
summer evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy
night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's,
this is a collection to treasure.

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 website
AmericanFolklore.net, where she shares a wealth of stories from all 50
states, some dating back to the origins of America.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Artist PAUL 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 art graces
books of many genres, from children's titles, textbooks, short story
collections, natural history volumes, and numerous cookbooks. For
SPOOKY NEW ENGLAND, he employed a scratchboard technique and an active
imagination.

SPOOKY NEW ENGLAND
Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
Retold by S.E. Schlosser; Illustrations by Paul G. Hoffman
ISBN 0-7627-2872-8 $11.95 paperback 5½ x 8½ 199 pages OCTOBER 2003

Contact:   Eliza J. Byron, Publicist
(203) 458-4544
800-962-0973 x4544
eliza.by...@globepequot.com