Spooky Maryland: 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 in Maryland. Set in the Old Line State’s city streets, rural communities, wooded mountains, and vast shoreline, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again.

Maryland’s folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and in artist Paul Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. Set way back near the cold, calm waters of Crisfield, in the quiet rural farmlands of Venton, and in the dark, heavily wooded swamplands of Cambridge, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. Readers will feel an icy wind on the back of their necks on a warm 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.
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Spooky Maryland: 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 in Maryland. Set in the Old Line State’s city streets, rural communities, wooded mountains, and vast shoreline, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again.

Maryland’s folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and in artist Paul Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. Set way back near the cold, calm waters of Crisfield, in the quiet rural farmlands of Venton, and in the dark, heavily wooded swamplands of Cambridge, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. Readers will feel an icy wind on the back of their necks on a warm 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.
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Spooky Maryland: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore

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

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

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

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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 in Maryland. Set in the Old Line State’s city streets, rural communities, wooded mountains, and vast shoreline, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again.

Maryland’s folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and in artist Paul Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. Set way back near the cold, calm waters of Crisfield, in the quiet rural farmlands of Venton, and in the dark, heavily wooded swamplands of Cambridge, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. Readers will feel an icy wind on the back of their necks on a warm 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493044801
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date: 07/01/2020
Series: Spooky
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 13 MB
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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 fifty states, some dating back to the origins of America. She is also the author of over thirty other books in Globe Pequot's Spooky series. She lives in Arizona.

Paul G. 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 the Spooky series he employed a scratchboard technique and an active imagination.He lives in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part 1 Ghost Stories 1

1 Whalem-Balem Salisbury 2

2 Cruel Master Bethesda 8

3 The Headless Confederate Annapolis 12

4 Dead Man's Coat Crisfield 21

5 Open Grave Venton 28

6 Big Liz Cambridge 33

7 The life Or Ocean City 39

8 Ghost in the Mizzen Baltimore 47

9 The Well South Mountain State Park, Boonsboro 54

10 The Ghost House Dorchester County 61

11 Ghost in the Chimney Frostburg 67

12 The Music Lesson Baltimore 73

13 Traitor Clinton 78

14 Steal Away Home Berlin 83

15 Handprint Calvert County 90

16 The Ghost of William Jinks Allegany County 98

Part 2 Powers of Darkness and Light 111

17 Goatman Bowie 112

18 The White Horse Cambridge 117

19 Eavesdropper Hagerstown 125

20 The Devil's Racecourse Baltimore 130

21 Marmaduke Mister's Gold Smith Island 137

22 The Hairy Toe Upper Marlboro 144

23 Crooked Kate Somerset County 148

24 The Card Game Ward's Crossing 155

25 Dawn's Early Light Fort Mchenry, Baltimore 162

26 Heartbeat Ellicott City 171

27 Jack O'Lantern Worchester County 178

28 Der Belznickel St. Mary's County 185

29 Black Aggie Pikesville 193

30 The Floating Coffin Hoopers Island 200

31 Buried Alive Easton 205

32 Lords of the Manor St. Charles 212

33 The Werewolf's Bride Baltimore 225

34 Don't Turn on the Light Prince George's County 229

Resources 234

About the Author 239

About the Illustrator 239

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Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences. Folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E. Schlosser and in artist Paul Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. Set in big cities, rugged mountains, and small towns, the stories in these entertaining and compelling collections will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again.

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