New England Ghosts

by McSherry, Frank D.; Waugh, Charles G.; Greenberg, Martin Harry

• ISBN13: 9781558530904
• ISBN10: 1558530908
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-09-01
• Publisher: Rutledge Hill Pr

Summary

Bon apparition! #xD;Home of the Pilgrims, birthplace of Thanksgiving, pointman for te American revolution, New England has been fertile ground for hundreds of ghost stories. Its weather-beaten mountains, covered bridges, isolated lighthouses, lonely locales, and rocky coastlines are ideal settings for flights of the imagination. Or perhaps ghosts are not merely a matter of the imagination. #xD;Draw your own conclusions as you feast on the hearty collection of New England ghost stories.

Table of Contents

Bon Apparition!	vii
Connecticut
This Is Death	1	(14)
Donald E. Westlake
Maine
Rain	15	(9)
Dana Burnet
Massachusetts
On 202	24	(10)
Jeff Hecht
New Hampshire
The Devil and Daniel Webster	34	(16)
Stephen Vincent Benet
Maine
Emmett	50	(15)
Dahlov Ipcar
Massachusetts
The Little Silver Heart	65	(16)
Josephine Daskam Bacon
Connecticut
The Changing of the Guard	81	(16)
Rod Serling
Anne Serling
Massachusetts
Herbert West---Reanimator	97	(32)
H. P. Lovecraft
Vermont
A Friendly Exorcise	129	(13)
Talmage Powell
Rhode Island
Safety Zone	142	(7)
Barry Malzberg
Maine
The Phantom Farmhouse	149	(24)
Seabury Quinn
Massachusetts
Night-Side	173	(26)
Joyce Carol Oates
Vermont
The Dark Boy	199	(15)
August Derleth
Acknowledgments	214