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"In offering a second volume of Pennsylvania mountain legends and folktales to the reading public, the author does so with a note of appreciation to all who found the first volume of legends of interest - public and press alike. The old stories and folktales which appeared in my Pennsylvania Fireside Tales Volume 1 and which seemed to strike a ""chord"" within me, also apparently appealed to others as well. Most people like these survivors from a bygone day - a time that was simpler in many ways than this present hectic age. In turn, these ""survivors"" not only help to perpetuate that feeling of kinship some of us feel toward these rugged Pennsylvania hills, but they also connect us to a rich fabric of history and to the people who lived it. With that link or connection, they cause us to feel closer to the past; our life's span seems extended, and we seem less mortal. It is with this background, then, that this second volume of Pennsylvania fireside tales is presented for the public's reading enjoyment. As explained in the first volume of this series, the title ""fireside tales"" comes from the fact that these stories and legends are variants of, or are exactly like, episodes that were related by early settlers sitting around their fireplaces on cold winter evenings when story-telling was the only form of entertainment by which to relax. Return now to those days of old when the pace was slower and life was harder. Keep in mind, however, that people then seemed content with their lot, finding pleasure in simple things like a wolf's howl, a panther's cry, a firefly's glow, or a flaming sunset sinking slowly behind the everlasting hills. In this volume: The Black Ghost of Scotia Juniata Gap Through the Veil Snakes, Snakes, Snakes The Lower Fort Spellbound Last of the Big Shots Haunts of the Highway More Snakes Little Red Riding Hood? Burned at the Stake Ridden Dead for Three Days? Mollie Maguire Memories Sitting with the Dead The Throwback Bloody Run Beyond Belief Jack's Narrows Nights in the Colby Narrows Western Pennsylvania Wolf Days"

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"Jeffrey R. Frazier was born and raised in Centre Hall, Centre County, where he says he grew up in a ""Tom Sawyer sort of way"", later graduating with a BS from Penn State in 1967, and then an MBA from Rider University in New Jersey in 1978. Some of the fondest memories of his boyhood include explorations of out-of-the-way spots in the mountains and accounts of the legends that seem to cling to them, and beginning in 1970 he began collecting those same kind of anecdotes from all over the state; ranging from the Blue Mountains of Berks and Lehigh Counties, the South Mountains of Adams County, the ""Black Forest"" area of Potter and Tioga Counties, the Alleghenies of Clearfield and Blair Counties, and the other counties in the middle. He has compiled his vast collection of tales into a series titled Pennsylvania Fireside Tales. This volume is a continuation of his work, written in a format that the average reader can enjoy, especially those who love the green valleys and cloud-covered mountain peaks of Pennsylvania as much as he does."

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