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Spooky New Jersey by S.E. Schlosser"North Plainfield Fire Department," I said into the phone, expecting the dispatcher's voice, calling us to a fire. Instead, a frantic woman's voice rang over the connection: "We need you to come at once. There is a terrible ghost in our house and we want you to remove it!"Meet a fireman who is called to assist a woman living in a haunted house in "Public Assist". This intrepid fireman is just one of 30 spooky characters found in this folklore collection by S.E. Schlosser. You will also encounter:
 
Listen to an interview with the author (11.9 mb download) Darren Levy of WNYU speaks with S.E. Schlosser on Citywide, New York University's radio arts talk show. |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Part One: Ghost Stories
1. Public Assist - North Plainfield
2. The Blue Lantern - Ringwood
3. In the Fog - Jersey City
4. The Mark of the Spirit Hand - Andover
5. The Searcher - Long Beach Island
6. Haunted House - Pompton Lakes
7. The Figure in the Window - Peapack
8. Brotherly Love - Springfield
9. The Face in the Mirror - Cape May
10. The Sweet By and By - Barnegat Light
11. The Ghost in the Storm - Summit
12. Turnabout is Fair Play - Branchville (6 MB podcast)
13. Apples and Oranges - Bordentown
14. Father and Son - Princeton
15. Shades of Death - Warren County
Part Two: Powers of Darkness and Light
16. The Devil on Washington Rock - Washington Rock State Park, Greenbrook
17. The Miller and the Topielec - Newark
18. The Express Train to Hell - Newark
19. The White Stag - Shamong, Burlington County
20. Blackbeard's Treasure - Burlington
21. The Devil's Duets - New Gretna
22. The Jersey Devil - Camden
23. The Grim - West Milford
24. Gully Road - Newark
25. Just One Sip - Atlantic City
26. Death of a Wizard - Hanover Furnace
27. Stolen Gold - Red Oak Grove
28. Dem Bones - Sandy Hook
29. The Treasure Trove - Schooley's Mountain
30. Rival Witches - Ringwood 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 Web site 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 Globe Pequot's Spooky Series, including Spooky New England, Spooky New York, Spooky Campfire Tales, Spooky Pennsylvania, Spooky California, Spooky South, and Spooky Southwest. About the Illustrator
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.
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