GHOST TALES for Retelling

Twenty seven spine tingling scary stories short enough to remember and retell. The tales in this book are from the author's childhood memory.  Many are based on myths, legends and fairy tales.  Included are hints for effective storytelling to create a mood and give the audience chills and shivers. 

Read them, watch how each story unfolds, and then tell them in your own words. Use that special rise and fall in your voice and that devilish twinkle in your eye, and you'll see the goose bumps pop out.
 

From the Foreword:

One of my fondest childhood memories is listening to and telling ghost stories.  When our cousins came for their extended summer vacation, our parents would allow us to build a small night fire in our country yard.  We sat around and told stories.  The delight of the older ones was to send us running into the house to Mamma.  Her response was a good hearty laugh and a mild rebuke out the back screened door.  As one of the youngest children, I admit to losing sleep on those nights for fear the ghosts and goblins of the stories haunted the pallets where we slept alongside our cousins.  Still the next night's telling drew me in to it with a kind of magic and wonder I could not resist....Idella Bodie.