Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Mike Bass, author of Frightful Folklore of North America: Bloodcurdling Tales from the Panama Canal to the North Pole.
This beautifully illustrated book offers scary legends and folklore from Canada to Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, including Native American tales, settlers’ stories and African-American legends, as well as ghost stories and modern tales of cryptids and aliens and a few urban legends.
Shake in your shoes as you read about: Qalupalik of the Inuit, green slimy web-handed creatures hunt along the ice floes in the water in the Arctic regions, kidnapping children that wander too close; La Corriveau of Quebec, a woman, hanged for murder and witchcraft, who runs through the night in her gibbet chasing her victims; The Ghost Moose of Maine, a spectral creature which makes hunters pursue it until they perish from some woodland accident or die of starvation; Resurrection Mary of Illinois, the ghost of a woman killed in a hit-and-run accident outside a Chicago dancehall who asks for a ride home and then disappears from your vehicle by Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, IL; Goatman of Alton Bridge Texas, a goatherder murdered in the early 1900s who returned as a half-goat, half-man to torment people who try to cross the bridge; La Diabless of Tobago, a young woman who made a pact with the devil; The Camazotz of Mexico, large man-bats that lived in the forest and hunt humans in packs.
And many, many more! Great for campfire storytelling or as a chill-inducing gift, this is the most readable and attractive book of spooky folklore on the market.
Click here to order your copy of Frightful Folklore of North America from Boswell. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.
