ghosts, ghost books, ghosthunting, Invisible Ink--Books on Ghosts & Hauntings: Western Ghosts

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Item #189

Ghost Stories from the American Southwest: Over 100 Spine-Tingling Tales, Richard Young & Judy D. Young, 1991, collection notes, biblio., index, 192 pp. $10.95 PB

Short, spooky tales from Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah. The Dragon of the Little Red River, the Lady in Blue, who was seen in Spain and in the New World, converting the Indians--at the same time. Fun and folkloric.

Item #822

Ghost Stories from the American Southwest: Over 100 Spine-Tingling Tales, Richard Young & Judy D. Young, 1991 Audiotape, 45 min. $12.00 AUDIOTAPE

This is the audiotape version of item # 189.

Item #819

Ghosts of the Old West, Earl Murray, 1988, index, 244 pp $14.95

Ghost towns and desert horrors like the Snake People—feared by the Apache, the disembodied woman’s head that floats around the Lost Trail Hotel, the mysterious Little People of the Pryor Mountains, little Millie Pratt who died tragically at the Old Pratt Hotel in the 1880s and still searches for her mother. Strong writing; strong stories.

Item #190

Ghosts of the Southwest: The Phantom Gunslinger and Other Real-Life Hauntings, 1997, photos, maps, index, 48 pp No longer available. Please ask us to find you a nice used copy.

Don’t be fooled by the page count and the picture-book format. Here are 14 mostly contemporary stories from Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, all new to me and all from places you can visit. The dead soldiers of Fort Concho, Augusta, the little girl ghost of the Stone Lion Inn, who covers her dolls to keep them warm. "Woody the Imp," a pint-sized phantom who haunts the St. James Hotel in Cimarron. The seventeen spirits of the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone. Written for young adults, but nice color photos of the sites (although the double-exposed "phantoms" are a bit obvious) and an excellent introduction to some ghostly vacation spots.

Item #191

Gold Rush Ghosts: Strange & Unexplained Phenomena in the Mother Lode, Nancy Bradley & Vincent Gaddis. 1990, photos, map, 109 pp. No longer available. Please ask us to find you a nice used copy.

A vein of gold-lust runs throughout these stories of prospectors and prostitutes; Chinamen and criminals. There's the ghostly prospector who still warns trespassers off his claim and a red-headed floozy who plays a whorehouse piano in the Nevada City Historical Museum. From lynch-mob victims to ghostly gamblers, this is a very enjoyable book. There is also a map showing the sites of the stories.

Item #192

Mexican Ghost Tales of the Southwest, Alfred Avila, 1994, line art, 172 pp. $9.95

Terrifying folktales from the U.S.-Mexico border. Enrique, who murdered his mother, and was slowly buried alive. The wailing ghost of a Japanese woman who wanted her ashes to have a proper burial. The Caves of Death, where Pancho Villa hid his treasure.

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