SOURCES

Updated excerpts from my first eleven books, including Wicked Salem: Exploring Lingering Lore and Legends, 13 Most Haunted in Massachusetts, and Haunted Boston Harbor were featured in Ghost Writers: The Hallowed Haunts of Unforgettable Literary Icons.

Edith Wharton’s library at The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts. PHOTO COURTESY DEPOSIT PHOTOS.

The material in this book is drawn from published sources, including my articles in DigBoston and issues of the Berkshire Eagle, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, CTNow from The Hartford Courant, Daily Free Press, The New York Times, The Observer, and North Andover’s Eagle-Tribune, and television programs such as Travel Channel’s GhostAdventures and A Haunting and SyFy’s Ghost Hunters. Several books on New England’s paranormal history were used and cited throughout the text. Other New England–based websites and periodicals, such as Peter Muise’s New England Folklore, Curbed, OTIS: Odd Things I’ve Seen , Where The Ghosts Live, Q1065-FM’s blog as well as the websites for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and National Park Service served as sources.

Many of the classics, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, are cited throughout Ghost Writers and the works by the authors are highly recommended as supplemental reading.

I also conducted first-hand interviews, and some of the material is drawn from my own research. My former history-based tours, Wicked Salem, hosted at Wicked Good Books, Boston Haunts, and my Harvard Square Ghost Tour were also major sources and generated original content. It should be noted that ghost stories are subjective, and I have made a concerted effort to stick to the historical facts, even if it resulted in debunking an alleged encounter with the paranormal.

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———. Haunted Boston Harbor. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2016.

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