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 ...

New England is filled with phenomena science cannot explain. Houses in which the floorboards creak and doors open on their own, waters upon which ghost ships sail, spooky sounds coming from the forest, eerie lights in the sky, and much more.

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 ...

On the night of September 20, 1938, the news on the radio was full of Hitler's pending invasion of Czechoslovakia. Severe weather wasn't mentioned; only light rain was forecast for the following day. In a matter of hours, however, a hurricane of unprecedented force would tear through one of the wealthiest and most populated stretches of coastline in America, obliterating communities from Long Island to Providence, destroying entire fishing fleets from Montauk to Narragansett Bay.

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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!

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 ...

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...

What if the Salem witch trials weren’t the beginning—but the consequence of a story Boston tried to forget? Before Salem’s hysteria seized New England, before the gallows rose on Gallows Hill, another tragedy unfolded in 1688 Boston. It began with a family, a frightened city, and a minister determined to prove the devil’s hand at work. That case—the Goodwin witchcraft affair—became the spark that set the world ablaze. The Devil in Boston: Unearthing the 1688 Witchcraft Case That Shaped the Salem Trials reveals the chilling true story of how one man’s faith, one family’s ...

Sadie Warren’s greatest battle isn’t with monsters—it’s with the truth of her own blood. A Vermont college student with a lifelong ache for belonging, Sadie’s world unravels after a DNA test and a haunted journal reveal ties to the Tudor queen Anne of Cleves and a secret order of supernatural hunters known as the House of the Crow. As she’s drawn into a hidden war between the Vatican and immortal forces led by the resurrected Queen Elizabeth I, Sadie must face what she’s always feared most: that her past will decide her future. Torn between Richard, the mysterious agent sworn ...

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...

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...

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...

In the town of Cross, Massachusetts strange, curious, and at times horrific events occur. In this collection of short stories the reader discovers some of the town's troubling secrets. There is a bridge left uncrossed; a house best left empty; and fairy folk and ghosts who should never be disturbed.

We all have a cemetery or two in your town or city. Some of the places were we lay to rest or family or friends is a darker side to them. Ghost are always around us. In this book I show case some of the cemeteries in New England and New York . I have compiled some of the darkest and truly haunted cemeteries. #Doyoubelieveinghosts . I do

Weird Connecticut Stories Road Trip Think Connecticut is just quiet towns, fall leaves, old houses, and traffic between New York and Boston? Think again. Weird Connecticut Stories Road Trip takes you across one of America’s smallest states and proves that Connecticut is secretly packed with castles, ghosts, dinosaur footprints, underground prison tunnels, haunted mansions, secret societies, strange roadside history, maritime legends, circus energy, pizza wars, and a used bookstore with goats and cats. This is not a normal travel guide. It is a funny, story-driven road-trip book for ...

Ever since her first ghostly sighting, Abby Kimball has been trying to unravel the mystery of her newly discovered ability. So when she sees the apparition of a Revolutionary War soldier in the middle of the town green - just days before the annual Patriot's Day celebration, no less - she's determined to figure out her connection to the man. The ethereal soldier is not the only mystery in Abby's life.