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

by S. E. Schlosser, Paul G. Hoffman (Illustrator)

Overview

Tales of hauntings, strange happenings and other local lore throughout the Sunshine state!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493044856
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/15/2021
Series:	Spooky
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	655,495
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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 Florida, he employed a scratchboard technique and an active imagination.

Table of Contents

Map x

Introduction xiii

Part 1 Ghost Stories

1 The Antique Car: Islamorada 2

2 Skyway: St. Petersburg 8

3 In the Elevator: Coral Gables 15

4 Might 401: The Everglades 21

5 Old Red Eyes: Jacksonville 26

6 Diamond Ring: Pensacola 37

7 The Wedding: Maitland 42

8 Shell Mound: Cedar Key 47

9 Ghost Baby: Orlando 54

10 The Phantom Coach: Tallahassee 61

11 The Cypress Tree: Pensacola 70

12 Dark Dreams: Miami 75

Part 2 Powers of Darkness and Light

13 Tailybone: Walton County 84

14 Little Lucy: Putnam County 92

15 Roses: St. Augustine 101

16 The Watermelon Thief: Gainesville 107

17 True Love: Key West 116

18 The Hermit: Fort Myers 121

19 Spook Hill: Lake Wales 138

20 Pink: Daytona Beach 144

21 Spanish Moss: The Florida Coast 152

22 Mystic Music: Manatee County 152

23 The Choking Doherman: Tampa 158

24 The Witch's Curse: Fort Lauderdale 163

25 Initiation: Miami 175

Resources 180

Additional Chapter 185

About the Author 191

About the Illustrator 192

What People are Saying About This

Donna McCrohan Rosenthal

If preparations for Halloween have put you in an eerie frame of mind, S.E. Schlosser has the perfect book for you...
— Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, Ridge Writers

Dennis Phillips

The author lets the stories speak for themselves which is virtue not possessed by many folklore books...
— Dennis Phillips, Top 1000 Reviewer, Amazon.com

Matt Staggs

The great thing about this book is that, like most folklore, it seems like you’ve read or heard most of the stories before. They exist in the periphery of our memory, and reading them again is like coming home to hear familiar stories from a favorite grandmother...
— Matt Staggs, Skullring.org

Michael Carlton

If you have ever felt a chill as you walked past a Vermont graveyard, 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

Editorial Reviews

What People are Saying About the Spooky Series...

"If you have ever felt a chill as you walked past a Vermont graveyard, 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 is one of those books that you cannot put down until you reach the end...This is the ideal book for curling on the couch on a rainy afternoon and enjoying an entertaining read." - Rambles: A Cultural Arts Magazine

"The author lets the stories speak for themselves which is virtue not possessed by many folklore books... " - Dennis Phillips, Top 1000 Reviewer, Amazon.com

"If preparations for Halloween have put you in an eerie frame of mind, S.E. Schlosser has the perfect book for you..." - Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, Ridge Writers

"The great thing about this book is that, like most folklore, it seems like you've read or heard most of the stories before. They exist in the periphery of our memory, and reading them again is like coming home to hear familiar stories from a favorite grandmother..." - Matt Staggs, Skullring.org

From the Publisher

Spooky New England is one of those books that you cannot put down until you reach the end...This is the ideal book for curling on the couch on a rainy afternoon and enjoying an entertaining read.
— Rambles: A Cultural Arts Magazine

Rambles: A Cultural Arts Magazine

"The author lets the stories speak for themselves which is virtue not possessed by many folklore books... " - Dennis Phillips, Top 1000 Reviewer, Amazon.com

Dennis Phillips

"If preparations for Halloween have put you in an eerie frame of mind, S.E. Schlosser has the perfect book for you..." - Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, Ridge Writers

Donna McCrohan Rosenthal

"The great thing about this book is that, like most folklore, it seems like you’ve read or heard most of the stories before. They exist in the periphery of our memory, and reading them again is like coming home to hear familiar stories from a favorite grandmother..." - Matt Staggs, Skullring.org

Matt Staggs

"If you have ever felt a chill as you walked past a Vermont graveyard, 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

Michael Carlton