New England Ghost

What if the local legends were true? What if the whispers from the past never faded? In the quiet corners of New England, where history holds a grudge, some stories are best left untold. From a lonely Vermont trail where a mysterious lantern lures hikers to their doom, to a historic Salem house where a 17th-century diary is not a journal but a trap, this collection unearths the terrifying truths behind the region’s most unsettling folklore. Venture to a salt-scoured lighthouse on the coast of Maine where the dead keeper still stands watch, walk the silent grounds of a Harvard graveyard ...

These are true ghost stories told by people from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. These New England ghost stories have been featured in our first 11 books and include: - ''...Whatever it was, it was not messing around. Instead it appeared to be protecting the location, ensuring that the property was safe from two people who had not made their intent clear... '' - ''... During the time my skin was melting into my shirt I was out of my body and looking down through the house...'' - ''... He just faded out of sight right there in the middle of a big ...

City of Betrayal: The Genovese Family’s Springfield Crew From the award-winning author of Mafia Confession: "King of Bootleggers" Murder and Outlaw Bikers and the Mob: The Bloody Pact Between the Hells Angels and the Rizzuto Crime Family comes a gripping true crime chronicle of loyalty, betrayal, and blood. “If it weren’t for informants, the public would know nothing about the inner workings of La Cosa Nostra.” — Author Nicholas Parisi For decades, the Springfield Crew operated in the shadows of the powerful Genovese Crime Family. Bound by the Mafia’s code of silence, they ran ...

A Sweeping Hisotry of the Great State of Maine From the ancient Wabanaki peoples who first called this rugged coastline home to the contemporary entrepreneurs building technology companies in converted mill towns, Maine's story is one of remarkable resilience, adaptation, and independence. The Pine Tree State traces the fascinating journey of a land shaped by ice ages and defined by its relationship with the sea, following the dramatic transformations that turned a remote frontier into one of America's most distinctive states. This comprehensive history explores Maine's pivotal moments: the...

Step into the shadowy world of New England’s most famous hauntings—where history, tragedy, and the supernatural collide. From colonial cemeteries and Revolutionary-era inns to abandoned villages and grand hotels, the Northeast is home to some of the most chilling and enduring ghost stories in America. In Specters of New England: Famous Hauntings and Chilling True Stories from America’s Historic Northeast, you’ll journey through ten unforgettable chapters, each exploring a different haunted location with a legacy rooted in real history. Discover the sorrow of the Houghton Mansion, ...

Verses you have read many times will impact you in a new way when you hear them read aloud Read in a single voice with subtle background music, the NIV Listener’s Audio Bible features Max McLean’s skillful, engaging, but never over-dramatized style reading the entire text of the Bible. This...

Take the weird haunted road through New England, where the streets are old, the inns creak after midnight, and even the prettiest coastal towns seem one fogbank away from a séance. Weird Haunted New England Road Trip is a funny, spooky, story-rich travel guide through the region’s strangest ghost stories, witch-trial towns, haunted hotels, eerie graveyards, mysterious mountains, foggy harbors, vampire legends, lake monsters, murder houses, and old roads that feel like they remember too much. This is not a dry history book or a normal travel guide. It is a weird and haunted road trip ...

Salem attracts people from all points of the compass and the bewitching seaport is a magnet for the mysterious. Witchcraft and commerce, seafarers and slaves, even literature, combine to conjure up a ghostly brew of haunted happenings in this New England harbor town and surrounding North Shore haunts. Prepare to be chilled!

From the New York Times bestselling author of Red Rabbit comes a supernatural horror where ghosts and ghouls are the least of a witch’s problems in nineteenth-century New England. Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and...

Step into the weirdest corners of Salem and Boston, where witch trials, haunted hotels, Revolutionary trouble, ancient graveyards, molasses disasters, literary gloom, and cobblestone chaos all somehow became vacation plans. This is not a normal travel guide. Weird Salem & Boston Stories takes readers on a funny, strange, and story-rich road trip through two of Massachusetts’ most fascinating historic cities. In Salem, you’ll wander past witch shops, memorials, old burying grounds, the Witch House, Proctor’s Ledge, the House of the Seven Gables, Derby Wharf, and the deeper witch-trial ...

This standalone adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Jackaby series brims with humor, heart, and—of course—a hefty dose of supernatural mayhem. Abigail Rook never intended to be the mortal bridge between the human and supernatural world. But now, the power of the...

These are true ghost stories told by people from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. These New England ghost stories have been featured in books 12 through 23 and include: - ''At that point my seven-year-old yelled from the backseat, ''Mom, what is going on? Why is that man see-through?'' Just then the man stepped up onto the sidewalk, and he was gone...'' - ''He replied, ''I am not like you. I don't get older anymore. '' I asked him why, and he said, ''because I died in an accident.'' He didn't say what kind of accident, but I started telling my ...

A year ago, Maya Hart learned to release a grieving woman from a century-old mirror. This time, eleven voices are arguing at once, and none of them agree on who was right. When Anchorage Inn's holiday bookings are threatened by strange arguing overheard through the walls of its east wing, innkeeper Diane Ashford calls the only person in Blackwood Cove who might actually understand what is happening. What Maya Hart finds in the inn's storage loft is not a single trapped spirit but a maritime oath sworn a hundred and thirty-nine years ago and never released, binding eleven men who died ...

Love breaks all the rules. Even those of the afterlife. Adele Monroe, recently widowed, loves her new home by the sea. At least until the overbearing, cantankerous spirit of the home’s former owner, a sea captain, makes himself known. The two must set a course for peaceful cohabitation, and Adele soon finds herself caring deeply for the unseen mariner. But how long can she carry on this association before the demands of the living force her to choose between life as she knows it and something far more mysterious? A retelling of R.A. Dick’s timeless classic, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, this...

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost Writer, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder—now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not...

Cape Cod looks peaceful from a distance. Then the ferry changes terminals, the lighthouse moves inland, the seals attract sharks, the fog eats Nantucket, and a gull steals lunch before anyone can check the parking sign. Weird Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket is a funny, story-driven travel guide to one of America’s most beautiful and wonderfully complicated coastal regions. This is not a dry directory of beaches and museums. It is a road trip through pirate wrecks, whaling fortunes, gingerbread cottages, shark research, historic fishing villages, movie locations, moving dunes, ...

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller. He has been told the girl’s last words, and he feels unaccountably afraid. The dead ones. They were dead, but they had lights. Why do the...

Maya Hart spent twenty years appraising other people's grief and calling it a career. Now, newly divorced and starting over in the foggy coastal town of Blackwood Cove, Maine, she's finally ready to trust the gift she spent two decades filing away as imagination. Her first real contract should be simple: clear the cluttered estate of a reclusive town historian, appraise the antiques, and collect her fee. But Corliss House isn't done grieving. A Georgian mirror in the master bedroom holds the trapped spirit of a woman who died protecting a secret her own husband was too ashamed to speak ...

John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier...

Retiree Gwen Andrews arrives at the Harbor Falls Bed & Breakfast expecting an evening of food and fun at the garden club’s Christmas party. Boy, is she wrong! First, she learns the B&B’s ghost is wreaking havoc.And then Gwen overhears a whispered blackmail threat.Because misfortune often comes in threes, a prickly club member tumbles down the servant steps during an impromptu house tour and dies.When the woman’s death is ruled suspicious, Gwen is enlisted for undercover sleuthing. Were mortal hands or spectral to blame? All the while, she’s juggling her personal life as one man ...