"'Twas the night before Halloween, and all through the house, All the creatures were stirring, except for the mouse.The monsters had gathered to plan and prepare, For the trick-or-treaters who soon would be there?."

Little monsters and goofy goblins take center stage in this silly, spooky spin on Clement C. Moore's beloved poem. But what will happen on Halloween when the monsters come face to face with human trick-or-treaters in this fun-filled book by the author of The Night Before Easter?

In this Texas Folklore Society publication there are essays on teaching folklore for students How I Define Folklore for My Students, Toward a Definition of Folk Culture, Beginning Within: Teaching Folklore the Easy Way, Folklore Fieldwork on the Internet, and others. Essays illustrating folklore are also included, such as The Honored Dead: The Ritual of Police Burial, Gang Graffiti, Rail Tales: Some Are True, Dance Halls of East Texas, The Oil Field Camp, Tex-Mex Dialect or Gidget Goes to Acuna, and more."