The first book of the 13-volume Spirits Between the Bays ghost/folkore series includes more than a dozen Mid-Atlantic ghost tales, including the curse of Blackbeard's Treasure, the Revolutionary War's Headless Horseman of Welsh Tract Road and the Ghost of Ashley Manor, which the author visited the week before Halloween.
Ed Okonowicz, a Delaware native, is an editor and writer at the University of Delaware, where he earned a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in communication. Also a profesional storyteller, Ed is a member of the National Storytelling Association and specializes in local legends and folklore of the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, as well as topics related to the Eastern Shore of Maryland.