Children's Ghost Books page 5, ghost stories, ghosts, Invisible Ink--Books on Ghosts & Hauntings

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Item #782

The Haunted States of America, Haunted Houses and Spooky Places in All 50 States (and Canada, Too!), Joan Holub, 2001, photos, 172 pp SORRY No longer available. Please ask us to find you a nice used copy.

Sort of like Haunted America or Historic Haunted America for kids. A nice introduction. Winchester mystery house, the ghost of Floyd Collins, trapped in Mammoth Cave, a ghostly train in Utah.

Item #634

Haunted Teachers, True Ghost Stories, Allan Zullo, 1996, 128 pp NOW OUT OF PRINT. ASK US TO FIND YOU A NICE USED COPY.

A dead man's shadow on a schoolhouse wall. The cursed Eyptian bone story transplanted to modern times (boo! hiss!) A dead teacher who returned for her prized yearbook. No sources; no credibility. (As one teacher said to me, "Kids don't care about sources.") But it does say "true" on the cover.

Item #740

How to Draw Ghosts, Vampires & Haunted Houses, Emma Fischel, 1988, illus, index, 32 pp NOW OUT OF PRINT. ASK US TO FIND YOU A NICE USED COPY.

Be the Van Gogh of vampires, the Gauguin of ghosts, the David Hockney of haunted houses! You’ll find step-by-step spooks in this colorfully illustrated book. I can’t draw a straight line, but the instructions and illustrations make it seem like I could easily become an artist. Multiple techniques are featured: Smudging, cardboard cutout rubbings, tracing, watercolors, erasing, printing, using a grid, stippling, hatching and crosshatching. A perfect introduction to drawing the unseen.

Item #272

How to Haunt a House for Halloween, Friedhoffer, "The Madman of Magic" and Harriet Brown, 1988, photos and line art, biblio., index, 95 pp. $8.95

An amusing and effective How To Haunt a House manual. Using many tricks used by fake mediums in the seance room, Friedhoffer shows simple magic tricks and illusions like The Floating Skull and The Talking Severed Head. And visit Friedhoffer's own site at http://members.aol.com/scienctrix!

Item #742

It’s Haunted!, C. Santoro, 1998, unpaged, $5.99

A "lift-and-look" book with "over 35 spooky flaps and peeky holes." This is pretty darn cute. A wordless tour through a haunted house chock full of die-cut windows/doors, clever visual puns, and break-a-nail flaps revealing adorably hideous creatures.

Item #273

More Short & Shivery, Thirty Terrifying Tales, Robert D. San Souci, 1994, line art, notes on sources, 175 pp. $10.95

Another fine collection of international tales of ghosts, witches, vampires, and other horrors. "The Haunted Headrest," which took a terrible revenge on a murderer. The surprising "Twice Surprised." "Sister Death and the Healer," in which Sister Death grants a man one last favor, gave me chills!

Item #274

Mysteries of Strange Appearances from Beyond, Phyllis Raybin Emert, 1995, line illus, biblio, 117 pp. $2.99

A clunky title, but another very entertaining book from Emert. (See Ghosts, Hauntings, and Mysterious Happenings) A real spine-tingler about a haunted velvet jacket that created visions of violence. The fiery ghost of Orland Hills. The tower of evil that forced people to plunge to their deaths. Good stories!

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