by Thomas E. Barden (1991)
What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, "Justice John" Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collection of legends gathered between 1937 and 1942 by the field-workers of the Virginia Writers' Project of the WPA. For decades following the end of yhe project, these stories lay untouched in the libraries of the University of Virginia. Now, folklorist Thomas E. Barden brings to light these delightful tales, most of which have never been in print. Virginia Folk Legends presents the first valid published collection of Virginia folk legends and is endorsed by the American Folklore Society.
[written by Jahnna N. Malcolm
Lizzy Caldwell is soo excited when she's invited to join the Camp Fear Girls. But things might be getting too scary for Lizzy especially when she finds out the girls' clubhouse is on Fear Street, the spookiest place in the world, and that Camp Fear Girls have a strange way of mysteriously disappearing.
Dinah Starkey
Retellings of sixteen spooky stories collected from various parts of the British Isles about ghosts and other supernatural beings.
Ray Russell
The grand magus of horror unfolds a catalogue of gruesome and ghoulish delights in the three novellas which comprise Unholy Trinity. In Sanguinarius, we encounter the beautiful virgin bride of Count Ferencz Nadasdy and her horrific initiation into the satanic rites of a hideous passion. Sadonicus relates the tale of the mysterious Mr S and the unholy vengeance visited on his face and fortunes. And Sagittarius invokes the sadistic pleasure of an actor whose plays of torture and death become terrifyingly real.
Barbara Field
"As the play begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own responsibility and guilt--for, as their fascinating confrontation develops, it is evident that the Creature has become a pathetic, lonely and even sensitive being who wants only to find love and that he, Frankenstein, by intruding into the very secrets of life, is truly the evil one. As the two debate, scenes from the past flash by: Frankenstein's young bride, whom the Creature killed out of pique when the scientist failed to provide him with a mate of his own; the brilliant, quick-witted Professor Krempe, Frankenstein's university mentor; and moments between the youthful Victor and his brother, who also fell victim to the Creature's vengeance. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil--culminating in the Creature's agonizing question, "Why did you make me?" It is a question the exhausted Frankenstein cannot answer and, as the play ends, the Creature lives on, condemned to pass his remaining days in the awful loneliness he has so desperately sought to escape."--Page [4] of cover.