No Go the Bogeyman
Subtitle: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780099739814
First sentence: In a poem written in Germany in 1782, the poet Goethe evoked the Erlking, or the King of the Alders, wooing a boy who is riding with his father through the dark forest: 'You sweet child, come, come with me!' he calls out, 'we shall play lovely games together, there are flowers of many colours by the water's edge, my mother has many garments of gold.'