Nantucket Ghosts

by Balliett, Blue

• ISBN13: 9780892727179
• ISBN10: 0892727179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: Down East Books

Summary

Nantucket Island has just more than 10,000 year-round residents -- and a sizeable population of very real ghosts. The 44 tales in this book were collected as oral history. Some of these spirits are benign, even protective; others terrorize the humans who encounter them. All are memorable.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(4)
The Abbess	11	(6)
The Shimmering Bubble	17	(4)
Something Evil in the Attic	21	(4)
Heaven Is Two Weeks Away	25	(2)
Seth	27	(6)
One Silver Spoon	33	(2)
A Woman in the Fireplace	35	(4)
George Cushman	39	(2)
William Coffin's House	41	(4)
Mermaid	45	(4)
A Very Large Chin	49	(2)
A Little Girl	51	(6)
Sixteen Men	57	(4)
A Shaker Rocker	61	(6)
Christmas Music	67	(2)
The House that Killed My Father	69	(6)
Brushing My Cheek	75	(2)
Expecting the Inexplicable	77	(6)
A Flying Candlestick	83	(4)
Miss Phebe Beadle	87	(2)
A Red Friend	89	(4)
Ancient History	93	(4)
A Smell of Roses	97	(2)
Harry	99	(10)
A Pink Rocker	109	(6)
In the Window	115	(4)
You Wanted to See Me	119	(6)
Three Fishermen	125	(8)
A Birdcage Table	133	(4)
Silver Rings	137	(6)
A Lady in Black	143	(8)
Heart	151	(8)
A Nocturnal Twirl	159	(6)
Under the Scallop Shells	165	(4)
My Family Is Here	169	(12)
Old and Young	181	(4)
Quakers	185	(4)
Life's Strange Happenings	189	(10)
They	199	(6)
The Silk Factory	205	(4)
Trespassers	209	(4)
Tapping	213	(2)
A Trick of the Universe	215	(12)
The End of September	227