Bones and Berserkers (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #13): 13 True Tales of Terror from American History

by Nathan Hale

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Sometimes, history is a mystery. Nathan Hale delivers a collection of real spooky tales passed down over the years, from possessed pets to demonic sightings. Prepare to be spooked by actual historic legends and myths.

Author-illustrator Nathan Hale tells some of the spookiest stories in US history in Bones and Berserkers, the 13th book in the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel series.

Bones and Berserkers is the unlucky 13th book in the New York Times bestselling Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series, and you know what that means? It’s time to gather around the gallows and tell the spookiest stories in US history!

In this chilling collection, learn about the devil baby who terrorized New Jersey; a haunted well full of restless Confederate soldiers; a demon cat whose appearance has been an omen for some of the darkest days in American history; and a massacre by a murderous butler whose motives remain unknown to this day.

Full of a frightful mix of folk tales and facts, this newest entry is sure to fascinate readers . . . if they’re brave enough to read to the end.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798887072586
Publisher:	Abrams Fanfare
Publication date:	09/09/2025
Series:	Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series , #13
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	115 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Nathan Hale is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series. He also wrote and illustrated the graphic novels One Trick Pony, Apocalypse Taco, and The Mighty Bite series. Hale lives in Utah, and you can find him online.

Editorial Reviews

"All these tales, eerie as they are on their own, are cranked up into screamer territory by Hale’s two-tone illustrations, which, with indecent relish and fanatical attention to realistic detail...truly nightmarish."— Kirkus Review

From the Publisher

2025-07-04
Author Hale’s namesake—spy and Revolutionary hero Nathan Hale—huddles with compatriots beneath a gallows as they regale one another with ghoulish tales drawn from history, literature, and legend.

Hale’s latest set of Hazardous Tales begins, as it really needs to, with a cautionary note: “Are you a second grader reading way above your age level? If so, set this book down. It’s not for you.” Indeed, the book doesn’t skimp on the disturbing bits. With evocative titles like “The Demon Cat” and “The Head in the Jar” to provide at least a little warning, the author gathers a variety of terrifying tales; three involve the Jersey Devil, while one centers on a butler going bloodily berserk in a house built by Frank Lloyd Wright. Others feature the discovery of a haunted well filled with the corpses of soldiers killed in a Civil War battle, gruesome revenge, and monsters like the Boo Hag, a skin changer who sucks blood through sleepers’ noses. All these tales, eerie as they are on their own, are cranked up into screamer territory by Hale’s two-tone illustrations, which, with indecent relish and fanatical attention to realistic detail, depict fresh and not-so-fresh corpses, a radiation victim’s rotted face, a man’s buttocks being hacked off with a sword, leering skeletons, chopped-off limbs, and creepy night creatures with big, sharp teeth. The cast of storytellers, horrified onlookers, and all-too-often mutilated victims is racially diverse.

Not all true, but truly nightmarish. (bibliography)(Graphic nonfiction/horror. 10-14)

Kirkus Reviews