by Dale Jarvis
Dale regularly teaches workshops for beginning storytellers, and has taught workshops across Canada on storytelling for historic sites, museum, and park interpreters. He has also taught the basics of storytelling to grades three to six. Dale is the founder of the St. John’s Storytelling Circle, and one of the coordinators of the annual St. John’s Storytelling Festival. As of 2007, Dale is the Eastern Canada Coordinator for the national guild of storytellers, Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada.
Dale is the author of two books on Newfoundland and Labrador folklore, Haunted Shores and Wonderful Strange, both published by Flanker Press. He is committed to spreading the art and profession of storytelling and encouraging new storytellers to tell their tales.
ALSO BY DALE JARVIS
Newfoundland and Labrador is blessed with more fairies, devils, old hags, phantoms, Jacky Lanterns, sea monsters, and other fabulous and frightening creatures than any other spot in Canada. Author and researcher Dale Jarvis, creator of the award-winning St. John's Haunted Hike, has pulled together a compendium of strange tales about the even stranger spectres, sprites, and curious beasties that inhabit the province's shores. From Signal Hill's headless ghost to the Northern Peninsula's Isle of Demons to the fairy paths of the Southern Shore, Wonderful Strange is your guide to encounters with the unexplained.
ISBN: 978-1-894463-76-8 216 pages $14.95
From the northern shores of Labrador to the south coast of Newfoundland, there are as many ghost stories as there are bays and inlets. The place is rich with tales of ghost ships, mysterious lights, sinister spectres, tokens of impending death, headless pirates and murdered loves. From legends of phantom loggers to stories of possessed teapots, this book is an eerie exploration of the phantom-filled nooks and crannies of the province.
Drawn from both archival sources and first-hand accounts, the stories herein weave together anecdote, oral tradition, history and folklore to form a rich tapestry depicting a rarely explored side of Newfoundland and Labrador.
ISBN: 978-1-894463-54-6 206 pages $14.95