Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #268839 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

From the Back Cover
Ghostwriter Nancy Roberts spins fascinating tales about 24 haunted houses all over America. Based on interviews with regular people who have experienced actual ghostly goings-on, these stories will make you sleep with the lights on. Around the campfire or in the safety of your own home, read about the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Massachusetts, where the gruesome murders of Andrew and Abbey Borden were committed by their daughter Lizzie...or were they? Or the Red Brook Inn in Old Mystic, Connecticut, where a jealous widow's spirit gets her 'sweet' revenge on her husband's seventy-fifth birthday! Or the Winchester Mansion in San Jose, California, where a spooked wealthy widow had secret rooms and passageways built in the mansion to keep the bad spirits away.

Customer Reviews

Nancy doing her thing!
This is a really good read at night. Nancy has written some really good books in her time, this one included. She is also a Carolina girl at heart!

OK READ
This book was ok but it could have been better. the stories were too short each story was only about 2 to 3 pages long so you get very little info.
on the places and ghost. This book was easy to put down and pick up again the next day it just did not keep me wanting to read like other books.

Not all that
I bought this book, because some one had told me a story about a house I was looking for was in it. Even though that person was mistaken, I was still up for a good ghost story. (ALWAYS!!)

My problem with the book is that it didn't seem to have an identity. After one story, there is a disclaimer saying it was fiction. Ok, that's really not a problem, however, it should be labeled as a book that it is fiction. That lead me to think, are the other stories fiction as well?

Additionally, some of the stories contained people who were not clearly identified. We don't know who they were. They were clearly guests of, employees at or patrons of a building but we don't know their background, relationship to the author or how they know each other. If the stories were true, where is the credibility factor?

Some of the places contained in the book are spectacular- and I have visited them in the past. Some of the stories are nice, a couple are just creepy. However, for me being a hard core believer in the paranormal, this book could use a little tightening and definition.