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

by Schlosser, S. E.; Hoffman, Paul G.

• ISBN13: 9780762728725
• ISBN10: 0762728728
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Globe Pequot

Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

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 work graces books of many genres - 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Ghost Stories
The Telltale Seaweed (Provincetown, Massachusetts)	p. 6
The Lady in Black (Georges Island, Massachusetts)	p. 15
The Blue Rock (Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts)	p. 21
The Voyage of the Palatine (Block Island, Rhode Island)	p. 26
The Ghost of Elvira Blood (Black Rock Harbor, Connecticut)	p. 31
The Watcher of the Isles of Shoals (Star Island, New Hampshire, and Appledore, Maine)	p. 38
The Ghosts of Georges Bank (Gloucester, Massachusetts)	p. 43
Ocean-born Mary (Henniker, New Hampshire)	p. 52
The Wraith in the Storm (Boston, Massachusetts)	p. 60
Emily's Bridge (Stowe, Vermont)	p. 65
The Powers of Darkness
The Black Dog of Hanging Hills (Meriden, Connecticut)	p. 74
Old Trickey (Kittery, Maine)	p. 80
The Fatal Glass Eye (Salem, Massachusetts)	p. 85
The Man Who Could Send Rats (New Hampshire)	p. 91
The Devil's Hole (Woonsocket, Rhode Island)	p. 97
Tom Dunn's Dance (Woburn, Massachusetts)	p. 105
Old Betty Booker (Kittery, Maine)	p. 111
The Devil and Jonathan Moulton (Hampton, New Hampshire)	p. 116
The Loup-Garou (Woonsocket, Rhode Island)	p. 125
Captain Paddock and Crookjaw (Yarmouth, Massachusetts)	p. 128
Invisible Wonders
The Man Who Made Weather (Hallowell, Maine)	p. 134
The White Deer (Lake Onota, Massachusetts)	p. 140
At the Sign of the Sir Charles (Somewhere in New England ...)	p. 144
The Image of Saint Francis (Swanton, Vermont)	p. 152
The Whaling Boat in the Sky (Orleans, Massachusetts)	p. 159
The Bridge (Montpelier, Vermont)	p. 166
Mary's Flower (Provincetown, Massachusetts)	p. 171
The Dancing Mortar (Block Island, Rhode Island)	p. 175
The Witch-Sheep (Narragansett, Rhode Island)	p. 181
The Frogs of Windham (Windham, Connecticut)	p. 190
Resources	p. 195
About the Author	p. 199
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Excerpts

"Did you have a nice hike?" asked the innkeeper, coming over to refill his cup.
"Yes indeed. I had some unexpected company," Justin said with a smile.
"Really? I thought you were the only one crazy enough to go hiking in the rain," she teased.
"It was a black dog," he said. "Cute fellow. Followed me all the way up the mountain and down again." He looked up from his coffee to see the innkeeper's face had gone pale.
"A black dog?" she asked. "That's not good."
"Why not?"
"We have a saying around here," she replied. "'And if a man shall meet the Black Dog once, it shall be for joy; and if twice, it shall be for sorrow; and the third time, he shall die.'"
He laughed. "That's just superstition."
She did not laugh with him... .

From The Black Dog of Hanging Hills

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