Every state has its own spine-tingling stories of ghosts and mysterious hauntings grounded in its regional history. The Haunted States of America series uses real-life ghost lore as jumping off points to new, chilling tales. An author's note provides historical origins and fascinating facts, but beware: sometimes real life is stranger than fiction.

The study highlights several writers who have not received much, if any, attention among Gothic scholars. This allows readers exposure to writers they may have never encountered before or may realize dimensions to the authors’ works they have never considered. The study reconsiders scholarship’s understanding of post-war American literature. This gives readers, students, and scholars a new approach to discussing post-war fiction that is not delimited to widely accepted understanding of how Cold War anxieties were manifested in fiction. The study contextualizes the fiction it examines within each work’s respective region. This allows readers a new way of approaching not just post-war Gothic fiction but Gothic fiction in general.

Every state has its own spine-tingling stories of ghosts and mysterious hauntings grounded in its regional history. The Haunted States of America series uses real-life ghost lore as jumping-off points to new, chilling tales. An author's note provides historical origins and fascinating facts, but beware: sometimes real life is stranger than fiction.

Discusses accounts of ghosts believed by some to haunt libraries, schools, houses, hotels, and other places in the United States and in Canada.

Readers are in for some delicious thrills when they read about locales where ghosts are said to dwell, from haunted houses and hotels to creepy castles and spooky landmarks.

"Sophie and Emma are identical twins who have had a falling out. When Emma begins to receive threatening notes, she assumes her sister is to blame. Sophie denies it--and when Emma is sent falling down the school steps, Sophie sets out to discover who's to blame"--