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Sto caricando le informazioni... Spooky New England: Tales of hauntings, strange happenings, and other local loredi S. E. Schlosser
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is just not a good book. The stories are neither scary nor true, and the writing is inept at best. Schlosser can't decide if she wants to spin yarns or document folklore, so she fails at both, "telling" all of these "spooky" stories in absurd voices that are meant to read as different from each other but which really aren't. Hoffman's illustrations are whimsical and charming, but it's clear, for instance, that he's never been out to Fort Warren, and they certainly don't lend anything to the stories Schlosser picks. Schlosser is dismayed that these folk stories are fading from memory, but her book is Exhibit A in the argument that the reason for their fading is the fact that they're just not memorable, at least not the way she tells them. Schlosser does include a bibliography of some length at the back; you'd probably do better to track down her original sources than you would spending the time to read her book. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous New England ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 35 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.Yankee folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E. Schlosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman's evocative illustrations. You'll meet seaweed-covered phantom sailors and a ghostly black dog, hear otherworldly voices and things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It was a quick and breezy -- something to read when I am weary and not wanting to concentrate on anything thought provoking. ( )