CONTENTS

Introduction

The Bell System

The Body of New Jersey, 1980

Manifest Destiny

Meteorology Index

Nebraskan Bribes

Ghost of Macondo

Slow City Bones

Spirit Arithmetic

Haunted House, 1780

Ghost of Motel 6

Extinction Days, 1873

The Mosquito Monocracy

Ghost Story, 1971

Handshake Weather

Roswell, 1947

Ghost of General Electric

Haunted House, 1978

Ghost of Polaroid

Stetson in Retrograde

Pacific Americana

Haunted City, 1967

Ghost Union

Fever Land, 1499

Spirit of Black Tuesday

Haunted House, 1980

Ghosts of the Bell System

Haunted House, 1692

Interstate Dusk

Ghost Story, 1848

Ghost of NASA

Border Song

Eastern Standard Time, 1890

Index of Haunted Houses

A House Unfit Even for Ghosts

National Anthem

Ghost Story, 2020

Ghost of a Ghost Story

Notes

Acknowledgments