Spooky Oregon: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore by S

Description: Spooky Oregon by S.E. Schlosser, Paul G. Hoffman Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for forty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Oregon folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Spooky happenings throughout OregonPull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for forty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Oregon folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and through artist Paul Hoffmans evocative illustrations. Youll meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. Now with brand new stories, this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. Author Biography S. E. Schlosser has been telling stories since she was a child, when games of "lets pretend" quickly built themselves into full-length stories. She 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. She lives in the Phoenix, Arizona region. She is the franchise author for this series.Paul Hoffman illustrates books of many genres—childrens titles, textbooks, short story collections, natural history volumes, and cookbooks. For the Spooky series, he employs a scratchboard technique and an active imagination. He lives in Massachusetts. Table of Contents ContentsMap viiiIntroductIon xPART ONE: GHOST STORIES1. The Handkerchief 2Newport2. Top Hat and Cane 9Bend3. Neahkahnie Treasure 15Tillamook County4. Shanghaied 22Portland5. Looking for Johnny 28Oregon City6. The Green Lady 38Jacksonville7. The Mad Logger 44Lincoln County8. The Sandbar 51Astoria9. The Rivals 57Sisters10. Cold 64Ashland11. The Cabin 70Mount Hood12. The Golden Hand 76MedfordPART TWO: POWERS OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT13. Devils Lake 82Lincoln City14. The Lights 89Hells Canyon15. Trespassing 94Cascade Mountain16. Tommy Knockin 107John Day17. Griffin 116Merlin18. The Cheshire Cat 124Eugene19. Bandage Man 135Cannon Beach20. Laughing Devil 141Gold Beach21. The Devils Sink 146Elgin22. Time Slip 156Fort Clatsop23. Destiny 165Crater Lake24. The New Neighbor 178Baker City25. Close Encounter 184Willamette ForestAnd Featuring Five NEW Stories: "Monster," "Rue the Day," "The Wanderer," "The Underground," and "The Festival."Resources 189About the Author 195About the Illustrator 196 Long Description Spooky happenings throughout Oregon Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for forty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Oregon folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and through artist Paul Hoffmans evocative illustrations. Youll meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. Now with brand new stories, this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. Excerpt from Book 1. Monster - When his injured son returns home without his twin sisters, a father races through the fog to their rescue. As the mist thickens near the lakeshore, the father catches tantalizing glimpses of the girls and hears them sobbing for help. But each time he draws near the mist-riven figures, they vanish before he can reach them. As he stumbles about in the swirling darkness, it becomes obvious there is more at work here than an accident caused by the sudden thick mist covering the water. Something far more sinister is luring the father toward his doom in the depths of the mist-covered lake. Will he survive? 2. Rue the day - A carpenter was commissioned to work on the light keepers house at Heceta Head. While working in the attic, he encountered the ghost of a woman (called Rue) floating a few inches above the floor. Spooked, he dove through the ghost and jumped down through the trap door. It took him a few days to regain his nerve and return to his work site. He was not thrilled when he learned an attic window was broken and he need to replace it. This time, the carpenter opted to remained outside the house; instead climbing up a ladder to replace a broken attic window. When he spotted the same floating woman peering out at him through the broken glass, he made a beeline for home and never returned! Back inside the locked attic, someone... was it Rue... swept up the glass from the broken window and left it in a neat pile for the caretakers when they unlocked the attic the next morning.3. The Wanderer - An out-of-town nurse summoned to care for the sick during the Spanish Flu epidemic in Portland encounters an eccentric old man that raises strange visions in her mind; visions of death and disaster and plague. She is terrified when she meets the old man a second time on a street corner as she walks to the makeshift clinic to start her evening shift a few nights later. When he faints at her feet, she has the old man carried to the clinic and cares for him through the night. Each time she touches him, the nurse is beset with strange visions of disaster, starting in ages long past and moving forward in time. She sees the face of the Wanderer in every age. As the night progresses, the nurse realizes the unconscious man is aging in reverse - becoming younger each hour until he is a handsome young man in his early thirties as dawn breaks. By the time he wakes, the nurse has guessed the mans his true identity. She bustles the now-healed individual out of the clinic and drives him to the edge of town. As the wanderer takes his leave, the Spanish Flu stops spreading and the people of Portland begin to heal. Details ISBN1493034650 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Year 2018 ISBN-10 1493034650 ISBN-13 9781493034659 Format Paperback Author Paul G. Hoffman Edition 2nd Imprint Globe Pequot Press Place of Publication Old Saybrook Country of Publication United States Subtitle Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore Pages 256 DEWEY 398.209795 Illustrator Paul G. Hoffman Short Title Spooky Oregon Language English NZ Release Date 2018-08-01 US Release Date 2018-08-01 Publication Date 2018-08-01 UK Release Date 2018-08-01 Series Spooky Audience General AU Release Date 2018-07-14 Edition Description Second Edition Illustrations 30 BW Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:118865998;

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