Spooky S.E. Schlosser

Among the stack of books my librarians have given me were several by folklorist S.E. Schlosser.  For this blog post, I selected just a handful of them:

• Spooky New England
• Spooky Michigan
• Spooky Great Lakes

and decided to have a bit of fun.  The collections were pretty solid-- scary stories retold in a more conversational style that draws them out and makes them feel more like short stories than folktales.  While I generally prefer my folklore to sound like someone's reciting it aloud, I liked Schlosser's writing style and found the stories to be both chilling and engaging.  There were a few overlapping tales between the three collections, with Spooky Great Lakes having stories that I had read in one or the other of the collections on this list, but I didn't feel that it ruined my reading experience in any way.

As an added bonus, with just three books, we were able to visit 14 states!  We're well on our way to completing the map!

There are more in the series (lots more) and I can see myself jumping back into these chilling tales later in the summer if time allows.  For now, though, I want to direct y'all to the author's website, in case you wanted to learn more.

States Visited: Michigan, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania