Spooky Canada Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore [Paperback]

A collection of thirty folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Canada ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world.From British Columbia to Newfoundland, the provinces have at least one thing in common: eerie things that go bump in the night and creaky haunted houses. Thirty stories will keep you looking over your shoulder for days!Author Biography - Sandy SchlosserSome of my first memories are of my father reading me the Chronicles of Narnia. He had the most annoying habit of reading only one chapter a night. I remember learning to read as quickly as possible so that I could sneak ahead in the book to find out what happened next. I am not sure exactly when I began to write. I told myself stories constantly as a child. Games of Let's pretend quickly built themselves into full-length stories that my friends and I would act out. I am afraid I never grew out of let's pretend ; I could entertain myself for hours writing stories in my head. One of the first stories I wrote down was for a class in seventh grade. The teacher had our stories evaluated by a published author. Unfortunately, my story (a spooky Halloween tale) did not even merit a mention. Rather crushed by this event, I gave up on the idea of training to be a writer and went on to receive a music degree from Houghton College. Oddly enough, I wrote my first full-length manuscript during college for a friend who also liked to write stories. It was after college that I began taking classes in writing from the Institute of Children's Literature. Encouraged to write articles for magazines, I became intrigued with folklore and the retelling of folktales. Most of the children's magazines were publishing folktales, but I noticed that these were either retellings of well-known stories or folklore from other countries. Where, I wondered, were the old American folktales that used to entertain our ancestor's children around the fireplace (and sometimes their parents gathl³(