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

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New York has a rich heritage of folklore. The author of Spooky New York has picked 30 great stories to share. My favorites are story number 4 entitled "Redemption", story number 9, called "The Rising of Gouverneur Morris" and story number 21 called "Henry Hudson and the Kaatskill Gnomes". The book has 30 stories and all 30 are told in an interesting manner, some of the stories have surprise endings. A few popular folklore legends are recounted such as "The Maid of the Mist". This is a great story to read for anyone visiting Niagara Falls. The story provides some background material and reads in an interesting manner. If you are planning a visit to the Rochester area the first story in the book called "The White Lady of the Lake" may interest you. The setting for the story is the Durand - Eastman Park. The park is on Lake Ontario, a great setting for a picnic. You may even be able to find the stair's mentioned in the story. There are several great stories about the New York City area, There's an Empire State Building ghost story, a story about buried treasure on Liberty Island and many more fasinating tales. I highly recommend this book.

I really enjoyed Schlosser's latest book. I own the whole series, and I read Spooky New York as soon as it arrived from Amazon (which happened to be a traditional dark and stormy night.) There were a couple of stories, High Hat and the Hermit's House in particular, that troubled my dreams that night! Of course, typical of Schlosser, there were also some characters that made me chuckle out loud.

Quite a number of stories took place around New York City. I had no idea that Central Park, the Empire State Building, and Ellis Island had ghost stories associated with them. Also, Captain Kidd left buried treasure on Liberty Island, the Devil had a fiddle contest in Brooklyn, a monster once roamed Wall Street, and a Revolutionary War hero rose from his Bronx grave to defend his widow and baby son.

Highly recommended!

This is one of the best Spooky books around! The majority of the stories in Spooky New York have morals tied to their endings so you actually finish the story by learning a lesson. There are some very genuine scary stories in this edition that people will enjoy. Those stories are Observatory, The Satin Dress, The Hermit's House and High Hat. I think that the stories that have the best morals are Redemption, The Poker Game, The Gold Tooth, Baker's Dozen and The Loup-Garou's Debt. I recommend this book for all those Spooky fans out there and also for those who want to know some folklore from New York!

I expected tales of actual experiences from this area of the country. Instead, I got a collection of campfire tales. All in all a disappointing purchase.