Williamsburg resident L.B. Taylor, Jr., is credited with 50 non-fiction books, including 25 enormously popular collections of Virginia ghost stories.
He earned his journalism degree from Florida State University, served in the U.S. Army, and later covered spaceflight missions for NASA. As a freelance writer, he wrote more than 300 articles throughout his career and his retirement.
While his popular non-fiction books cover diverse subjects, from pirate treasure to electronic surveillance, his ghost story collections set him firmly in Virginia libraries, schools, and homes.
I once had an autographed copy of this volume that was given to me by my grandmother, Mary Hope Vaught Isenberg. The story of her, and her family's experiences with hauntings and the strong premonitions that all of the women in her family had seemed to be gifted with. That gift has certainly been passed down through the generations. From my great great grandmother and all of her children, to my grandmother, my mother and aunts and even to my sister and myself. My grandmother had written to LB Taylor Jr. about most, not all of their experiences with the supernatural, and I have been forever thankful that he included all of our supernatural heritage in his books. Every book in this series really are wonderfully and masterfully done!