Spooky Southwest: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore

By S.E. Schlosser

Book Overview

Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened--and still do happen--in the collective back yard of the Southwestern states. Accompanied by evocative illustrations, these compelling retellings of 30 popular folktales feature supernatural occurrences and ghosts of all sorts, from cattle rustlers to runaway trains.

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 30 creepy tails of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, and Texas. Set in the American Southwest's historic towns and sparsely populated expanses, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762734256
• ISBN13: 9780762734252
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

southwest is great

This book is fantastic loved every story and would love to visit some of these areas.

Spooky Southwest

My students have loved this book. It is a quick read of short stories that fill in for any down time we may have in the classroom.

Great book!

I really loved Spooky Southwest! The stories were short, and some of them were really scary -- like the Death Waltz and Old Granny Tucker. There were also some good laughs -- for example, the story "The Ultimate Stakes" has two Comstock miners making it into Heaven, and they go a little crazy when they realize the streets are made out of gold! I have read all three books by S.E. Schlosser, and they keep getting better and better. Can't wait to see what's next from this author.

Great Tales

Spooky Southwest was a great read. I love to read about Ghosts and strange things that happen. I want to visit the places I read about and see if these stories are true. I had to read this book during daylight hours only because I'm easily spooked, but that is half the fun anyway. I can't wait until S.E. Schlosser comes out with a new "Spooky" book.

Enthralling read about the southwest.

The Southwest . . . land of cowboys, Indians, legends and folklore. Pecos Bill visits the most haunted house in the west, a slave prays for his freedom, gold miners head for Heaven's streets of gold, skeletons, ghosts, treasure and more. This book continues the tradition of exciting tales made famous in the Southwest. Both the well known and less well known tales are equally exciting. Anyone who finds the Southwest interesting will put this book on their definite read list.