Here are haunting tales told around the hearths of drafty, isolated Maine farmhouses and midnight campfires in the Great North Woods. Handed down over generations, re-told by master storyteller Helen Caldwell Cushman, they still beckon. "These are the secrets that we who live along Thirty Mile River keep," they say. "You are fortunate to know them now, because they have made you one of us, closer to this land, to these lakes and streams, to the forests and farmlands, and to the strange and wonderful things that can happen here."