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The Spirits of America
A GROUP OF GHOSTS AS UNIQUE AS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE...WISHING THE LIVING BOTH GOOD AND ILL...
In THE SPIRITS OF AMERICA, Jeff Rovin has collected a series of American ghost stories that span the 500-year history of our country. Beginninig with the specter of a grief-stricken Christopher Columbus who still walks the beaches on the island of Hispaniola, looking for the men he left behind, THE SPIRITS OF AMERICA brings our history alive with spine-chilling, true-to-life tales of ghosts, famous and obscure:
1692-the grave of a man who executed an eccentric crone for witchcraft is defaced by her slender footprint...
1834-an American soldier wrongly shot for spying in the War of 1812 takes his revenge...
1863-the ghost of Andrew Jackson promises Mary Todd Lincoln that he will look after her dead son...
1965-a soldier killed in World War II leads the son he never met to safety in the Vietnam Jungle...
1986-a man who buys a used computer finds himself communicating with the former owner, who died at the keyboard...
If you've ever felt cold spots in a room, seen hazy, shimmering shapes in a corner, or heard strange, unaccountable sounds...or if you're simply fascinated by the possibly that ghost exist...THE SPIRITS OF AMERICA will hold you spellbound!
In THE SPIRITS OF AMERICA, Jeff Rovin has collected a series of American ghost stories that span the 500-year history of our country. Beginninig with the specter of a grief-stricken Christopher Columbus who still walks the beaches on the island of Hispaniola, looking for the men he left behind, THE SPIRITS OF AMERICA brings our history alive with spine-chilling, true-to-life tales of ghosts, famous and obscure:
1692-the grave of a man who executed an eccentric crone for witchcraft is defaced by her slender footprint...
1834-an American soldier wrongly shot for spying in the War of 1812 takes his revenge...
1863-the ghost of Andrew Jackson promises Mary Todd Lincoln that he will look after her dead son...
1965-a soldier killed in World War II leads the son he never met to safety in the Vietnam Jungle...
1986-a man who buys a used computer finds himself communicating with the former owner, who died at the keyboard...
If you've ever felt cold spots in a room, seen hazy, shimmering shapes in a corner, or heard strange, unaccountable sounds...or if you're simply fascinated by the possibly that ghost exist...THE SPIRITS OF AMERICA will hold you spellbound!
215 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1990
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February 24, 2022
I wasn't expecting these stories to be quite so short. I mean, there are 50 of them over 215 pages after all. Some of them stood out, but most just didn't cut it for me. By the end, even the ones that stood out had faded.
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