About the Author

Henry H. Hamilton is a hobby farmer in Western Maine, a retired International Humanitarian Aid and Development Worker and former Superintendent of the Maine Wildlife Park, Gray, Maine. He spent 23 years working in Eastern and Western Europe, West Africa, Central and South Asia. He was a story teller on Alabama Public Radio, WLRH-FM, Huntsville, Alabama, 1989-1995. In 2004 the Friends of the Maine Wildlife Park asked him to tell scary stories at a Halloween event. Because he could find no story that he liked he wrote several of his own. He found writing spooky stories for children fun. The result is this book. The illustrator, Patricia E. Chandler, is a painter, art instructor, portrait artist and illustrator who has practiced her art in several states, always returning to Maine where she originated and grew up. Professionally she exhibits her oil and mixed media paintings, teaches drawing and painting courses for the University of Maine, and has long had an active portrait business. She holds a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She resides in her studio/home in Western Maine.