Things That Go Bump in the Night

The book contains more than two hundred stories of the restless dead; each of the six chapters is made up of a continuous flow of narrative. Included are stories about haunted houses, murders, revenge, suicide, and the hungers that bring the departed back to their earthly haunts. Here are tales of restless spirits. — The chapter on haunted history, containing more than forty stories, is a kind of spooky chronology of American history. the stories begin with the Indians, tell of the French and Indian Wars, the Revolution, the early days on New York State’s Erie Canal, the Civil War and World War II.