Join the authors as they search the country for the most frightening, tragic and uplifting spirits, whose struggles in life are reflected in a haunted hereafter.  Included are tales about:

• the malevolent spirits of "Machine Gun" Kelly and Al Capone remain incarcerated in Alcatraz, still considered one of the most haunted places in America
• in a story that inspired a major Hollywood motion picture, an Iowa family summons an exorcist to expel a devil from an innocent girl
• when outraged citizens mutilate the corpse of a 19th-century killer, he exacts revenge by haunting the New Jersey house where his dreams were shattered
• melancholy in life, Hawaiian patriot Queen Liliuokalani returns after death, now overjoyed by her state's resurgent pride
• the haunted Lemp Mansion in St. Louis remains inextricably linked to the rise and tragic fall of one of America's most interesting - and suicidal - brewery families
• Vicksburg, Mississippi, once the site of a decisive Civil War confrontation, is still home to the bloody apparition of a murdered Union soldier
• in Alaska's Red Onion Saloon, spirits of former prospectors and courtesans relive the fleeting glory of the Klondike Gold Rush
• at Woodburn House, the official governor's residence in Delaware, a specter continues to indulge his penchant for fine wine
• during snowstorms like the one that claimed her life, a former University of North Dakota student materializes out of nowhere - missing her legs and feet.

• a proud Confederate woman, hanged after a failed prison break, returns to terrorize soldiers at Fort Warren in Massachusetts
• many famous spirits, including several presidents and first ladies, haunt the world's most famous address, the White House
• under the influence of a long-dead literary muse, an ordinary St. Louis woman creates some fascinating works of literature
• in Cimarron, New Mexico, the ghost of a cardsharp returns to the hotel that he won - and lost just as quickly - in a dramatic card game
• after being transported to another time, a secretary unravels the mystery behind her otherworldly experience at Wesleyan College in Nebraska
• blessed with a variety of supernatural gifts, an itinerant family of Vermont mediums discovers that their unusual powers inspire both awe and anger
• in Louisville, Kentucky, paranormal investigators flock to the dilapidated Waverly Hills Sanatorium, formerly a tuberculosis clinic
• a Connecticut minister is shocked when he discovers the identity of a vicious poltergeist in his home
• a former high school in Seattle is home to an adolescent specter who likes to play practical jokes - especially on pretty teenage girls.