Haunted Houses: Tales from 30 American Homes

by Nancy Roberts

Genres: Nonfiction

181 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1988

Reviews

[Courtney Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed the author's approach to documenting stories, coming from an anecdotal place, with personal experience and shared accounts aquired directly from witnesses. Her descriptive writing style is quite lovely, and one can almost imagine running ones fingers along polished mahogony railings in old plantations houses, or walking alongside an old caretaker as he shares his chilling accounts of apparitions in the basement.

While several of the locations are oft-written of in other haunted resource books, the author was generally able to stray away from the legends and accounts heard time and again to focus more on individual stories of paranormal happening, which when you've read as many ghost books as I have, is much appreciated.

My only grievances are minor...the inclusion of an entirely fictional account, while entertaining, made me wonder what other creative liberties were taken with the information presented. It just didn't sit right with the rest of the accounts in the book.