Pardon Our Ghosts: The Haunting of Burleigh Hardware

by Michael Cohee

Returning to his hometown on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Logan Chase plans to reopen a long-shuttered hardware store with nostalgic tool aisles, a vintage ice-cream counter, and a retro ’80s arcade. Instead, the century-old building greets him with the ghosts of former employees, attacking Halloween animatronics, a mannequin that rides the elevator, and a creature borne of splintered pallets and bad intent.

Enter assistant manager, Mallory Daniels, quick-witted, sharp-tongued, and able to sense what lingers on the other side. To uncover an ancient injustice that refuses to stay buried, they recruit a team of librarian-turned ghost hunters and a clairvoyant who crosses wayward spirits in her spare time.

Pardon Our Ghosts is a supernatural ride into legacy, redemption, and the fine line between restoration and ruin, where saving a small-town landmark may cost Logan everything he has left.

377 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 25, 2026

Reviews

[Kayley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good horror story about a man buying a haunted hardware store and ghosts helping customers and also killing people come to find out an old nature American worker was wrongly accused and his ghosts haunts the ground, building almost get ls demolished but ghost? Has paperwork from 1800s saying it shouldn't be . Owner and his assistant manager end up together and look to buy haunted theater

[Elizabeth Frederick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pardon our ghost.

What a great story. Kept my interest. Could not wait to turn the page. Living in OC for 22 yrs and now Delaware this book brought back to many memories throughout the Eastern Shore. And I love ghost stories.