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The Troll Tale & Other Scary Stories | 
 enlarge | Authors: Birke Duncan, Jason Marc Harris
Publisher: Northwest Folklore
Category: Book
Buy New: $1.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2351735
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 189
ISBN: 0971058202
EAN: 9780971058200
ASIN: 0971058202
Publication Date: May 24, 2001
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Product Description
A troll, a poltergeist, floating fairies, troops of little men, premonitions, ghosts, pranks, and a doomed schoolteacher. These are just some of the eerie tales gathered by folklorists Birke Duncan and Jason Marc Harris in "The Troll Tale and Other Scary Stories", featuring the storytelling talents of: Garrett Vance, Robert McAllister, Holly Luidl Wyatt, Ralph Cheadle, Chris Aynesworth, Andrew Brinkman, and many more.
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An impressive selection of engaging fairy tales June 4, 2002
Collaboratively collected and analyzed by Birke Duncan and Jason Marc Harris, The Troll Tale and Other Scary Stories is an impressive selection of engaging fairy tales about trolls, poltergeists, fairies and other creatures of folklore mythology. Narrated in the fantastic, sing-song style of folklore storytelling, The Troll Tale and Other Scary Stories is an engaging, entertaining, and strongly recommended anthology for folktale/fairytale enthusiasts.
A New Take on the Ghost Story February 8, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Harris' and Duncan's collection of eerie tales brings to the table a fresh look at a literary genre that has been confined to rattling chains and creaking floor boards for too long. The 'ghost story' is too limiting a moniker for a dynamic story type that includes myths, folklore, and belief systems that, as Harris and Duncan show clearly, can shed important light on all aspects of the human psychii. In reading "The Troll Tale" my understanding of that tantalizing corner of the mind that conjures the 'scary story' has been broadened appreciably. Harris and Duncan prove that eerie tales can tell us not only what raises the hair on our necks but what drives human nature. This is an engrossing and worthwhile read.
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