Table of Contents
Author's Note xiii
Introduction: Anatomy of a Haunting, New York, NY 1
I The Unhomely houses and mansions 13
1 The Secret Staircase Salem, MA 21
2 Shifting Ground St. Trancisville, LA 37
3 The Endless House San Jose, CA 49
4 The Rathole Revelation Georgetown, NY Bull Valley, IL 69
5 The Family That Would Not live St Louis, MO 81
II After Hours bars, restaurants, hotels, and brothels 93
6 A Devilish Place Richmond, VA 103
7 Baby Reno, NV 119
8 Passing Through LOS Angeles, CA 131
III Civic-Minded Spirits prisons and asylums, graveyards and cemeteries, a park 151
9 Melancholy Contemplation Moundsville, WV 159
10 The Stain Danvers, MA Athens, OH 173
11 Awaiting the Devil's Coming Charleston, SC Douglas County, KS 187
12 Our Illustrious Dead Shiloh, TN 203
13 The Wind Through Cathedral Park Portland, OR 213
IV Useless Memory cities and towns 225
14 The Wet Grave New Orleans, LA 233
15 Among the Ruins Detroit, MI 253
16 Hillsdale, USA 267
Epilogue: Ghosts of a New Machine Allendale, CA 277
Acknowledgments 287
Notes 289
Index 309