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Haunted Charleston: Stories from the College of Charleston, The Citadel and the Holy City
"There is only one essential ingredient in a ghost death." So say Charlestonians Ed Macy and Geordie Buxton in their introduction to Haunted Charleston.
On the age-old streets of Charleston, where true life is stranger than fiction, narrators Macy and Buxton leave embellishment by the wayside to let these stories—in ghastly and sometimes dreadful detail—tell themselves.
By rambling through the oft-forgotten enclaves of the Holy City, the authors bring the reader face to face with a group of orphans who haunt a College of Charleston dorm, a Citadel cadet who haunts a local hotel and the specter of William Drayton at Drayton Hall Plantation, to name just a few.
Based on historical events and specific details that are often lost in our general notion of ghosts, each haunting encounter will send chills through the reader’s senses.
From a bookstore phantom, notorious for rearranging books in perfect vertical stacks, to a gruesome nineteenth-century amputation taking place again in a medical student’s apartment, Macy and Buxton offer up stories and essays of a nature more grim and morbid than ever heard of before.
On the age-old streets of Charleston, where true life is stranger than fiction, narrators Macy and Buxton leave embellishment by the wayside to let these stories—in ghastly and sometimes dreadful detail—tell themselves.
By rambling through the oft-forgotten enclaves of the Holy City, the authors bring the reader face to face with a group of orphans who haunt a College of Charleston dorm, a Citadel cadet who haunts a local hotel and the specter of William Drayton at Drayton Hall Plantation, to name just a few.
Based on historical events and specific details that are often lost in our general notion of ghosts, each haunting encounter will send chills through the reader’s senses.
From a bookstore phantom, notorious for rearranging books in perfect vertical stacks, to a gruesome nineteenth-century amputation taking place again in a medical student’s apartment, Macy and Buxton offer up stories and essays of a nature more grim and morbid than ever heard of before.
- GenresHistory
131 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 14, 2012
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July 28, 2014
An interesting read no doubt. Didn't have the details I was looking for, but it covered a lot of ground as far as different haunted spots go. I would recommend to anyone looking to learn a little history about Charleston in a fun way.
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