Frightful Folklore of North America

By Mike Bass 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: These 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, runs through the night in her gibbet chasing her victims. The Ghost Moose of Maine: Hunters pursue this spectral creature 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. Go