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| Scary Origami,
Jill Smolinski, 1995, line art, 64 pp. THIS BOOK IS NO LONGER
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| Fold a phantom with this clever book that teaches you how
to turn basic origami folds into slithering snakes, zombie claws, caskets, and tombstones.
Each project gives a suggestion on how to use the finished product. Origami paper not
included, but you can use any thin paper. |
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| FICTION Short
& Shivery, Thirty Chilling Tales, Robert D. San Souci, 1987,
photos, notes on sources, 175 pp. $9.95 |
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| Campfire-length tales adapted from international ghostlore
like "The Deacon's Ghost" who tried to kidnap the girl he loved, "The
Adventure of the German Student," obsessed by a walking corpse, and "The
Cegua," a female demon whose glance means madness and death. Tales from Russia,
Japan, England, the U.S., Costa Rica, France, Africa, Iceland, the Shetland and Orkney
Islands, and Native American and Jewish folklore. |
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| Tales of Real Haunting, Tony Allan, 1997, photos, biblio, 64 pp $7.95 |
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Another beautifully designed Usborne
book with a healthily skeptical point of view (Although I was puzzled by an inexplicable
neglect of recent research into the haunted U-boat story.). The nasty Belmez faces,
unusually enlightened coverage of the Enfield Poltergeist, phantom photos, the Cock Lane
"Ghost" and Bell Witch, Rose Hall's vengeful voodoo phantom, the monstrous black
cat of Killakee, finally laid by exorcism. A nice treatment of Borley followed by
"The Case Against Harry Price." Excellent! |
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| The Ten Creepiest Places in America, Allan Zullo, 1997, 95 pp, $3.95 |
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An interesting
selection of 1) ghost light areas: Marfa, Texas and Brown Mountain, North Carolina; 2)
sites with Native American or UFO connections: Area 51, Nevada, Gulf Breeze, Florida, and
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; and 3) haunted places: multiple ghosts from Georgetown County,
South Carolina; The Myrtles, Louisiana; The General Wayne Inn, Pennsylvania; Hannah House,
Indianapolis, Indiana. There's also the enigmatic "America's Stonehenge"—a
maze of stone structures, walls, and tunnels identified variously as a Celtic religious
center or an early American root cellar. |
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| FICTION A Terrifying Taste of Short & Shivery,
Robert D. San Souci, 1998, illus, sources, 159 pp $14.95 HB |
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be writing Son of Short & Shivery or I was a Teenaged Short & Shivery
soon! In this book, a lot of the stories share a common theme: the unholy hungers of the
undead. The Zimwi, an evil, ravenous, African spirit that transforms itself into a
gluttonous pumpkin with a taste for people pie. The surprising Peacock’s Ghost, who
proves you should never get sexist with haints. The terrifying Bijli with its fleshless,
fiery face. The alien Yara-ma-yha-who of Australia—one of the most unsettling
creatures in the book. The gruesome spirit of Land-Otter, a Tlingit Indian, who saved his
parents from starvation. Something I especially like about Bob’s work is his
knife-twisting, gut-wrenching endings. He can charm a surprise out of the most
conventional folktale! |
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| True Ghost
Stories (Deary), Terry Deary, 1996, line art, 128 pp, $3.99 |
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Combining fictionalized tellings of historical cases like
The Flying Dutchman and the restless mummy of Birchen Bower with "Fact Files,"
this admirably well-balanced book encourages the reader to think about possible
alternative explanations for ghostly sightings, and gives pros and cons for those
sightings. This is not just another sensationalized "true" ghost book for kids.
Although a few doubtful cases were cited, the author has adopted a sceptical tone and
urges readers to make up their own minds. Segments on how to hunt ghosts and what to do if
you see one. Haunted Australia, ghost ships, ghosts in the workplace, reincarnation, the
Cock Lane ghost and other hoaxes, ghosts out for revenge and much more. |
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