Arthur Myers

Book that covers most of the US states with true life ghost stories. The author is a reporter and he has done the book in a format in that vain. He has conducted personal interviews with the people involved. It speaks more true to life than most haunted house books with the first person interviews. They range anywhere from haunted houses to bars and restaurants with a few ghostly animals thrown in as well. The book presents itself as a tour guide to haunted places but most of the locations are privately owned and would probably not like ghost hunters just appearing on their doorstep.… (mer)

Not bad as true ghost stories go but not much of a travel guide. Most of the buildings were not open to the public so they couldn't be visited without calling ahead and hoping that the owner wasn't sick and tired of ghost hunters. Readers weren't even told where some of them were because the owners wanted privacy. Some of the buildings had already been sold by the time the book was written; the old owners gave the author information but the new owners didn't want visitors. Add that to the ghosts that were exorcised by the time the book was written and there was virtually no place in this guide to haunted America left to visit.… (mer)