Taylor is a wonderful story teller. For many of the stories it's as much a history of the place as it is the ghost story or urban legend involved. He breaks the union into various parts of the country with several stories for each area. Bachelor's Grove cemetery near Chicago, The Winchester Mystery house in CA, the LaLure mansion in New Orleans, Gettysburg battlefield and it's surroundings and The Mount and the ghost of Edith Wharton. Very well written and again it's as much a history lesson as it is a book of ghost stories. ( )