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 ...

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, ...

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.

Samantha Tremblay searches for answers to find a killer and discover herself. A role-playing game staged in the remote woods of the North East Kingdom turns deadly when a killer uses the game to seize his victims. Samantha, the Forest Ranger for Maidstone Lake in Vermont, discovers a dead body in the woods. The locals call her Sam, and she swears to bring the killer to justice for the victim. Sam finds herself in over her head. Working alongside a New Hampshire Trooper, Zachary Gerard, assigned to the case, they discover more bodies, and the motivation to solve the crimes mounts. Old ...

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 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 ...

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.

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...

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...

Still looking for answers to explain her uncanny ability to see her dead ancestors, Abby shifts her focus to spiritualists, seers, and psychics of all kinds. Meeting them with an open mind - and a healthy dose of skepticism - she wants to know if any of them genuinely share her strange experiences or if they're simply conning gullible people. When she ventures into a series of "readings" given by area psychics, she makes a startling connection that defies even her wildest expectations.

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 ...

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 ...

New England has had its tales of ghostly encounters since before we became a nation. However, do we really understand what we are seeing and what we hear? As an investigator, I can say you need to go into an investigation as a skeptic and keep your mind open to whether you believe a place is haunted or not.

From Maine to Massachusetts. From Connecticut to Vermont. All of beautiful New England. 1 Cookbook. New England is the home of America's most beutiful landscapes and some of America's best dishes. Such as New England Clam Chowder, Boston Baked Beans, Fish and Chips, Crab Cakes, and so much more. This cookbook is authentic New England Cooking and you will cherish every recipe. These recipes span all of New England from Maine to Connecticut. Places like Vermont and New Hampshire are not forgotten and of course Boston get's its proper treatment too. New England Style Cooking presents an ...

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...

Conventional wisdom is that if the Crown Colonies of the Commonwealth of New England ever unite in common purpose; then the Empire might fall. That this might happen at the very moment that century-old post-war settlement of the Treaty of Paris is threatening to fall apart, had been the unimaginable nightmare of generations of European monarchs, politicians, diplomats and generals The unthinkable is happening. Mexican troops are advancing through the South Western borderlands of New England; nothing can stop them. At sea, the supposedly invincible Royal Navy has been driven from the ...

Welcome to the seaside town of New Shrimpton, where magic is in the air, shrimp can be scooped up by the barrel, and a murderer hides in plain sight… Alice Munroe is the only PI in town, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a little help. For one, she can speak to animals and plants… though her cat, the extravagantly grumpy Mr. Ploppers, sometimes makes her wish she couldn’t. Still, when that’s not enough, she has a few other magical tricks up her sleeve. Things go sideways, however, when she’s hired to investigate a death that everyone has written off as natural. Save for ...

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...

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...

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.