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THE BOOK
The white volume of scarierstories.com contains 12 stories. Many of these tellable tales are just right for reading aloud late at night in a dimly lit room with your chicken hearted friends.
The titles include:
Who Stole the Great Pumpkin?
Edgar Allen Poe is Dead
10,000 New Words and Definitions
Tina and Tony
The Shoe at the Side of the Road
Bailey's Cave
The Old Man
Three Things I Learned Watching TV
We Know the Truth
Pumpkinwood
Exciting News and Ideas!
Ghost Cam - Willard Library:
If you would like to visit Willard Library and see pictures of ghosts, go to www.libraryghost.com/. The Ghost Cam is up and running. It's a fun site.
Scary Stories by other artists:
If you are interested in a good CD with scary tales, check out Diane Ladley's new work, Late Night Fright! This CD received the Storytelling World Honor Award. I have a copy and it is good. You'll want to invite friends over for Halloween, turn down the lights and put this one on the CD player.
You can buy the CD from Diane for $15.00 plus shipping and handling. E-mail Diane at: ghoststories@earthlink.net for more information. Order your copy today!
Another good Halloween story is The True Tale of My Sister's Haunted House by Tom McCabe. Tom McCabe is another great story teller. You can find this story on Tom's CD The Queen of Filene's Basement. While the only ghost story on the CD is The True Tale of My Sister's Haunted House, it is by itself worth the price for a true lover of ghost stories. While the CD does not contain the whollop of a live performance, if you have not heard Tom tell this story, you should buy the CD. His story is one that deftly illustrates why Halloween can be such a fun time of the year. The rest of the stories are very good, and you won't feel like you've wasted your money when you consider they were thrown into the mix for free. For more information, log onto www.TomMcCabe.com or call 413/586-3353.
Not had enough! Try The 1956 Chevy Bel Air and other Chilling Stories by Don Falkos. I've heard Don tell his story about the Chevy Bel Air many times and never tire of it. His CD is well worth the price. Don has a voice that is ideal for scary tales. You'll like this one. To contact Don for a copy of his CD log onto www.storytelling.org/Falkos.
Haunted House on the Internet:
I did not think that it was possible to visit a haunted house in cyberspace, but there is a place to see one on the internet. The directions are a bit convoluted, however, go to www.wgn.com, find the radio page and then click on the page for Steve and Johnnie, the night time WGN radio personalities. They have a page called "Funny Pages" that lists "weird and unusual" sites on the Internet. One of them is a link to a haunted house. Read the directions and follow them carefully. After you are done at the haunted house, you might want to poke the penguin.
Recognition for Scarierstories.com:
Thank you to the editors at www.myshelf.com for listing the book, scarierstories.com, as a selection for its Halloween reading ideas list. If you would like to see the list go to www.myshelf.com/holiday/pages/halloween.htm. Look under Misc. Fiction to find the reference to scarierstories.com.
Thanks also to the people at Madness Mansion for listing scarierstories.com on their list of recommended Halloween books. For more information go to http://www.madnessmansion.com/library.htm.
People who read scarierstories.com like it and recommend it to others!
Scary places to visit:
Statesville Haunted Prison: for information contact Siegel's Cottonwood Farms at 17250 South Weber Road, Crest Hill, IL 60441 (815) 741-2693. Adult oriented, this attraction features a tour of 23 prison cells inhabited by monsters such as Hannibal the Cannibal and Gacy the Killer Clown.
Spider Hill: Featuring the Haunted Express, Massacre Mansion and Trail of Terror, this attraction is located on Route 29 on the south side of Chilocothe, IL. For more information call (309) 274-8837.
Raven's Grin Inn located in Mount Carroll, Illinois. Cost is $10.00 per person and lasts about 1.5 hours. Call (815) 244-4746.
The Hog Wild Corn Maize in Sterling, Illinois. www.cornfieldmaze.com or (815) 632-0899. Includes a haunted maze. Once on the home page click on the button "owning a maze" to find a list of several mazes in the United States. Click on a button in a location near you.
Haunted Orchard Hayrides, Fridays and Saturdays in October. Eckert's Country Store and Farms in Grafton, Illinois. (618) 233-0513.
HIstory and Hauntings Ghost Tours of Alton, Illinois with Troy Taylor. www.prairieghosts.com or (888) 446-7859.
Phi Kappa Tau Haunted House, Peoria, Illinois. Admission is $5.00. For information, www.pktgammamu.com/hh.html
Creatures Crypt in Bloomington, Illinois. For information, schedules and links to many other great sites, go to www.creaturescrypt.com or call 309/662-8RIP. The website is great and so is the haunted house.
Country Corner Haunted Maze on Route 150 near Alpha, Illinois. For information call 309/629-2359.
Knoxville Haunted Barn on Sweetenburg Road near Knoxville, Illinos.
Interested in Storytelling or finding a good storyteller?
To learn more about storytelling, check out the Northlands Storytelling website. This is a fantastic group of talented people dedicated to nurturing storytelling. If you go to the website, you can become a member or learn about other talented storytellers. This group has a conference in the spring of every year in Madison, Wisconsin that is always worth the time, effort and expense. If you're looking to book a storyteller the website is a good place to start. Click here to go to the Northlands Website.
About George Hennenfent:
George Hennenfent is a writer and storyteller. He started his storytelling career by telling stories next to a campfire at Bailey's Cave in Henderson County, Illinois. He has been selected to perform at the Northlands Storytelling Network Conference three times. He has been selected to tell at the Door County Storytelling Fesitival twice. He has told his stories at several venues in the State of Illinois including The Fox Valley Storytelling Festival, the Coal Valley Storytelling Festival, The Lodge at Starved Rock State Park near Utica, Illinois, and the Illinois State Fair. He has told with the Riverbend Storytelling Guild in the Quadcities USA and at New Windsor, Illinois. scarierstories.com is a collection of some of the stories that he has told in concert and some that are appearing in print for the first time.
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