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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 9517581" data-attributes="member: 10148">This thread fell off my alerts, so catching up...Every year, for Halloweenmonth (a.k.a. October), I pick out four collections of "true" ghost and supernatural stories to read - one each for north, east, south, and west (usually meaning U.S., but not always). This year, it was:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Abandoned Villages and Ghost Towns of New England, by Thomas D'Agostino (north): Just what it says on the tin, but the author's not always good at finding an interesting and/or supernatural angle, and the coverage is uneven (the rather sizable state of Maine just has two unimpressive listings, while smaller states have many more).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Haunted Greenwich Village, by Tom Ogden (east): Heavier on the history than the ghosts (a common problem with these sorts of books). Plus a lot of the spooky stuff is heavily fictionalized. Nice little appendix in the back for making your own ghost tour, though.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Obake Files, by Glen Grant (west): A pretty impressive collection of firsthand and secondhand Hawaiian supernatural tales, across a wide variety of categories, that also showcases the cultural diversity of the state. The only nitpick is that the author can be a bit long-winded in his introductions, and a few instances were also lightly fictionalized (to protect identities).</li> </ul>I didn't get to my "south" option (a book of Virginia ghost stories), but we'll see before year's end.</blockquote>

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