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Spooky New York

He was nervous about passing the graveyard, remembering the rumors of a galloping ghost that he had heard at the tavern. He stumbled along, humming to himself to keep up his courage. Suddenly, his eye was caught by a light rising from the ground in the cemetery. He stopped, his heart pounding in fear. Before his startled eyes, a white mist burst forth from an unmarked grave and formed into a large horse carrying a headless rider.

“THE GALLOPING HESSIAN” from SPooky New York
Spooky New York by S.E. Schlosser
Spooky New York by S.E. Schlosser

Meet the Headless Horseman, who rises from the Sleepy Hollow graveyard many times before he encounters a man named Ichabod Crane.  The Headless Horseman is just one of 30 spooky characters found in this folklore collection by S.E. Schlosser.

You will also encounter:

  • A wizard who enslaves a young girl in Copake.
  • A ghost who likes to play Tug-of-War in Halfmoon
  • A vampire who preys on travelers in the Adirondacks
  • Plus more New York ghosts and spooks, including ice-skating ghosts in Manhattan’s Central Park  and the White Lady of the Lake in Rochester.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part One: Ghost Stories

Spooky New York by S.E. Schlosser

1. The White Lady of the Lake – Irondequoit/Rochester
2. Party at Wild Goose Tavern – Ellis Island
3. The Gray Lady – Richmond Town, Staten Island
4. Redemption – West Seneca
5. The Central Park Skaters – Manhattan
6. Buried Treasure – Liberty Island
7. The Phantom Fire Ship – The Bronx and Long Island Sound
8. Observatory – Empire State Building, Manhattan
9. The Rising of Gouverneur Morris – Morrisiana, The Bronx
10. Tug-of-War – Halfmoon
11. Going Fishin’ – Herkimer County
12. The Poker Game – Lowville
13. The Galloping Hessian – Tarrytown
14. The Satin Dress – Flushing, Queens
15. One Last Drink – Manhattan

Part Two: Powers of Darkness and Light

16. The Gold Tooth – Albany
17. The Night-riders – Copake
18. Rival Fiddlers – Brooklyn
19. Baker’s Dozen – Albany
20. The Wizard in the Hollow – Sag Harbor, Long Island
21. Henry Hudson and the Kaatskil Gnomes – Catskill Mountains
22.The Maid of the Mist – Niagara Falls
23. The Hermit’s House – Adirondack Mountains
24. The Loup-Garou’s debt – Mooers
25. Aunty Greenleaf and the White Deer – Brookhaven, Long Island
26. Van Wemple’s Goose – Brooklyn
27. High Hat – Alleghany County
28. The Ramapo Salamander – Rockland County
29. The Flying Canoe – Lake George
30. Jan Sol and the Monster – Wall Street, Manhattan