Reading line: Eerie tales and spine-tingling stories about America's most haunted housesThings that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder.let your imagination run wild as you read stories based on first-hand-witness accounts about ghostly goings-on. You may know of the bizarre, labrynthine Winchester House or the gruesome history of the Lizzie Borden house, but perhaps you haven't you heard about:San Diego's Whaley House, whose former residents maintain an active presence--including Yankee Jim, a hanging victim over whose gallows the house was built;the terrifying battle that claimed the lives of 1,700 Confederate soldiers whose battlefield became their final resting place on Tennessee's Carnton Plantation; andthe castle in Massachusetts that once belonged to eccentric millionaire and brilliant inventor John Hammond, Jr.--whose practice in spiritualism, say some, continues long after his death.Nancy Roberts (1924-2008), often described as the "First Lady of American Folklore," wrote more than twenty books, most pertaining to the supernatural. Taryn Plumb's other books include New England UFOs, Haunted Boston, and Haunted Maine Lighthouses. She worked as journalist for many years and lives in Hiram, Maine.