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Item #558

The Best of the Mississippi River Ghosts, Bruce Carlson, 1997, line art, 188 pp $9.95

A few catalogs back, Carlson had a series of three books on the ghosts of the Mississippi River. They are all out of print, but here he resurrects the best of the three in a single volume.

Item #556

Ghosts Along the Mississippi, Haunted Odyssey II, Jim Longo, 1993, photos, 195 pp $16.95

The odyssey continues from Minneapolis to the Delta. A Missouri condo where a misty-white figure materialized during a séance and a ghostly girl showed up in a photo. The ghost who cried "help me!" at St. Charles Community College. The Lady in Red who haunts the Goldenrod Showboat. The Hamlin Garland homestead where the famous author and spiritualist returns. Stories from Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Longo’s strong sense of people and community makes a very enjoyable book.

Modern true ghost stories from Missisippi, nicely enhanced by fine photographs. Ghostly brides drift across lawns, Civil War belles and their soldiers still walk the shadowy battlefields, and the show still goes on at the haunted Grand Opera House in Meridian.

2,000 miles of superlative ghost stories and tales of the supernatural! And great photos. Longo has a lot more nerve than I have: he went door-to-door in small towns asking for ghost stories. And he found them! One of the things I liked best about this book was Longo’s warm descriptions of people and places.
The Lemp family of St. Louis, haunted by depression and suicide, and their house, haunted by phantom horses clip-clopping on long-gone cobblestones and the face of a "monkey-boy" who shows up on photographs at the site. The ghost of a terminally-ill man who moaned pitifully in the basement where he tried to kill himself. The strange tale of an apple tree whose fruit always mysteriously disappear just before harvest. "Herman," an enormous African-American ghost. A ghost that sounded like a smart-alec parrot at the University of Missouri—St. Louis Library.

A little girl ghost who took afternoon naps, a ghost who scratched her name on a window, a blood-stained floor that can never be scrubbed clean. More ghostly greats from Jeffrey.

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