Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories

Dan SaSuWeh Jones

Sep 2021 · Scholastic Audio · Narrated by Wes Studi and DeLanna Studi

About this audiobook

Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A shiver-inducing collection of short stories to read under the covers, from abreadth American Indian nations.

Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood.Some of the creatures in these pages might only have a message for you, but some are the stuff of nightmares. These thirty-twoshort stories -- from tales passed down for generations to accounts that could have happened yesterday -- are collected from thethriving tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America. Prepare for stories of witches and walkingdolls, hungry skeletons, la llorona, and deer woman, and other supernatural beings ready to chill you to the bone.Dan SaSuWeh Jones of the Ponca Nation tells of his own encounters and selects his favorite spooky, eerie, surprising, and spinetinglingstories, all paired with haunting art by Weshoyot Alvitre of the Tongva Nation.So dim the lights (or maybe turn them all on) and pick up a story...if you dare.

About the author

Dan SaSuWeh Jones is the author of Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories and was a storyteller and consultant for National Geographic Encyclopedia of the American Indian. A former Chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma and member of the Producers Guild of America, he is also a filmmaker who has produced work for Sesame Street, NBC, TBS, and other national and international networks. He worked as an honorary Imagineer and consultant for the Walt Disney Company's Disney America theme park and as a field producer for the television miniseries 500 Nations, produced by Kevin Costner. As a bronze sculptor, he was a finalist in the competition for the American Indian Veterans Memorial at the National Museum of the American Indian on the Washington, DC, Mall. He holds a seat in the House of Warriors, a traditional Ponca Warrior Society.
Weshoyot Alvitre is a female author and illustrator from the Tongva tribe of Southern California. She currently resides with her husband and two children on Ventureno Chumash Territory in Ventura, California. Her work focuses on an Indigenous lens and voice on projects from children's books to adult market graphic novels. She has recently been published as an artist in Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, written by Lee Francis 4 and edited by Will Fenton; At The Mountains Base written by Traci Sorell; and was Art Director on the video game “When Rivers Were Trails.” She enjoys spinning yarn and collecting antiques.