The ghost of a palomino that gallops
through a house, an ancient Bible that flew through the air at a man later accused of
murdering his wife, some very nasty pirate ghosts, some super supernatural stories by late
19th early 20th-century journalist Sidney Dickinsonlike the
spirit voices who warned his wife of impending disaster and saved his child from a fiery
death, and, of course, the haunted pram of the title, which wanders around its museum
home, perhaps pushed by the restless spirit of a little boy who had worn braces and
couldnt run and play with the other children. A nice feature of this book is
"From the Archives," which resurrects ghost stories from long out-of-print and
obscure books of local history, folklore, and spiritualism. Tales from Wellfleet,
Nantucket, Plymouth County, Holyoke, Plymouth, Boston, Brookline, Marblehead, Plympton,
Cohasset, Wareham, Northhampton and Carver, Massachusetts, Hallowell and Loudon Hill,
Appledore Island, The Isle of Shoals, Boone Island, Maine, White Island, New Hampshire,
Stratford, Middletown, the Thimble Islands, Connecticut, New Shoreham, Block Island,North
Kingston, Rhode Island. Several of the stories in this book are expanded from Lodi's very
limited edition chapbook, Ghosts in Black and White. Another wonderful
collection from Lodi! |