Spooky Washington

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Washington state. You’ll meet a crimper who sells a newcomer to a ship captain heading for Shanghai without realizing he just doomed his own nephew to bondage; a dead grocer who feeds a starving woman in Spokane; a group of students that descend a mysterious staircase in a cemetery and find themselves at the gates of hell; a young boy that finds himself caught between his murderous step-father and a flesh-eating monster called the Bone Cleaner; and many more.

Washington folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and through artist Paul G. Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and dreary night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to Grandma’s, this is a collection to treasure.