Allan Zullo – författare

From 1985 to 1992, The Baseball Hall of Shame series chronicled more than 100 years of baseball goofs and gaffes, selling more than 700,000 copies. Now, the authors of the most offbeat baseball books ever written are back, featuring their looniest lineup of classic stories and inducting their first new class of Hall of Shamers in twenty years. Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo cover everything from the battiest batters and craziest fielding fiascoes to the dumbest ballpark promotions and screwiest fan behavior. 

Hall of Shamers include outfielder Lou "The Mad Russian" Novikoff, who insisted his wife taunt him from the stands because it made him a better hitter... Pitcher Burleigh Grimes, who was so mean that he threw a beanball at the on-deck hitter... Outfielder Ping Bodie, who out-ate Percy the ostrich for the spaghetti-eating championship of the world... and Babe Ruth, who wore ladies'' silk stockings for good luck. Among the new inductees are Ken Griffey Jr., who put a cow in manager Lou Piniella''s office to pay off a steak dinner bet... Manny Ramirez, who abandoned left field to go to the bathroom during a game... and David "Big Papi" Ortiz, whose underwear was smeared with peanut butter as payback for the pranks he pulled on teammates. 

Filled with more than 200 stories and packed with photos, The Baseball Hall of Shame: The Best of Blooperstown is the most hilarious homage to the national pastime ever assembled, and a fitting testament to the Hall''s motto: "Fame and shame are part of the game."

Many kids claim to have seen ghosts in all sorts of places—cemeteries, bedrooms, attics, schools, roadways, forests, caves. Often, experts were called in to investigate these apparent hauntings, and most of the time these so-called experts walked away baffled. The only thing that everyone could agree on was that something very weird had happened, something that could never be fully explained.

This first book in Allan Zullo’s popular Haunted Kids series is a collection of 11 creepy tales inspired by real-life cases taken from the files of noted ghost hunters. Do ghosts really exist? Well, you’ll have to decide that for yourself after listening to:

The Devil’s Garden Grave ConsequencesThe Headless TrainmanThe Secret of Room 333The Home WreckerThe Ghost of Slow SamThe Baby-Sitting GhostThe Scaredy CatsThe Thing in the AtticThe WarningThe Glowing Ball of Death

So, Turn Out the Lights, Turn up the Volume, and Turn Loose the Terror!

The Devil''s Garden from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Devil''s Garden

Two kids get lost in a dark, snake-infested, alligator-thriving swamp as night approaches. Suddenly, a mysterious girl appears and leads them to safety. They later learn she was the ghost of a girl who had died in the swamp.

Grave Consequences from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: Grave Consequences

A boy knocks over a gravestone of a kid who shares his name. Then the boy is terrorized at home by a ghostly kid. Not until the boy returns to the cemetery and puts the tombstone back up does the haunting stop.

The Headless Trainman from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Headless Trainman

Three girls try to verify the legend of the headless trainman—a ghost of an engineer who was decapitated in a derailment. The girls make a papier mache head and go looking for him by the tracks so they can give him a new head with a smiling face. They flee when they spot him hovering over the tracks. When they return home, their fake head is in the kitchen—and it now has a scowl.

The Secret of Room 333 from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Secret of Room 333

Two boys who were having trouble with math get help from an old nun who mysteriously appears and disappears in Room 333. Thanks to her tutoring, they pass the big test only to find out that the nun was a wonderful teacher who had died ten years earlier in that very room.

The Home Wrecker from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Home Wrecker

During a slumber party, girls play with a Ouija board when a spirit named Zebyn makes itself known. The room suddenly fills with a putrid smell and a loud banging noise, driving everyone out of the house. The next day, furniture flips over on its own, kitchen drawers open and close by themselves. A ghost hunter explains that the girls unwittingly “invited” the nasty spirit, so they hold a séance to get rid of it.

The Ghost of Slow Sam from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Ghost of Slow Sam

Boy Scouts camp by a Civil War battlefield and discover a rusty knife. Late at night the ghost of a Confederate soldier limps toward them and they flee. They discover that the knife was the one the soldier used to kill a former Union soldier who was looking for souvenirs in a nearby Confederate cemetery.

The Baby-Sitting Ghost from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Baby-Sitting Ghost

While baby-sitting for an infant, a girl is awakened by a strange elderly woman who says the baby is choking. The girl rushes into the nursery and pulls out a necklace and locket. The woman disappears. The girl opens the locket and sees a picture of the woman. From the baby’s parents, the girl learns that the woman was the baby’s grandmother who died days before the infant was born.

The Scaredy Cats from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Scaredy Cats

A cat that boys are chasing for fun is killed when it gets run over. Then the boys are kept up at night by unknown eerie yowling. They find a snake, rat and dead bird in their homes. They get scratched by invisible claws and cat prints appear on tables. Believing the cat is haunted them, they make a solemn oath to treat animals with respect, and the haunting stops.

The Thing in the Attic from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Thing in the Attic

After moving into an old house, sisters discover a secret chamber in the attic that holds a chained, sealed trunk. They break it open and find an urn full of ashes. That night, an invisible force attacks them and chokes them before they escape. With their dad in their room the next night, unseen icy hands pull the girls out of bed and slam them against the wall. The father is helpless, but then a ghost appears and battles the unseen spirit. The good ghost looks exactly like the previous owner, a kind-hearted man who loved kids.

The Warning from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Warning

While two kids are fishing in a narrow ravine, a strange boy in wet clothes warns them of danger. They ignore him, but he persists. Suddenly a flash flood sweeps the boy away and the other two kids barely escape. They run for help only to learn that the boy who warned them had died two years earlier in a flash flood.

The Glowing Ball of Death from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Glowing Ball of Death

With their dog, twin sisters snoop around an abandoned farmhouse that had been the scene of a woman’s murder months earlier. Her missing husband is the main suspect. The girls sneak inside and the dog freaks and runs off to the barn. They follow and see a glowing ball with a hideous face float out of the barn and hover near a tree. Authorities dig around the tree and find the husband’s body.