Tips from Margo Dill for Using Dripping Blood Cave in the Classroom

There’s a recent post featuring Dripping Blood Cave & Other Ghostly Stories on this excellent blog, Margo Dill’s Read These Books and Use Them! I recommend Margo’s blog highly, for all of you interested in good kid-lit titles. She doesn’t just recommend a book. She puts in the time to share detailed insights into why [...]

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Do You Suffer a Deficiency of Ghosts?

We love this line from a recent review of Dripping Blood Cave & Other Ghostly Stories from the good folks of Midwest Book Review: It’s annoying when you can’t go a week without encountering more ghosts. Isn’t that the truth! Thankfully, Hank and Clifford, the teen boys in Raymond Bial’s collection of fictional stories, don’t [...]

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Origins of Ray Bial’s Dripping Blood Cave Story

[Below is a guest post by Ray Bial, the author of Dripping Blood Cave and Other Ghostly Stories, explaining how the idea for the title story came from a real-life cave in southern Indiana, not far from Bloomington. It also gives a hint of his process as he creates both nonfiction photo-documentary books and fictional [...]

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Dripping Blood Cave – Best Title Ever!

Okay . . . we think this is the perfect title! Just in time for Halloween, Dripping Blood Cave and Other Ghostly Stories is a new collection of humorous ghost stories by noted children’s author Raymond Bial of Urbana, Illinois. Bial is the author of more than 100 books, including acclaimed photodocumentary books Amish Home, [...]

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