Ghost Stories of Illinois (Paperback)

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Product Description

Enjoy 75 accounts of ghostly visitations--among them spirits from the Great Chicago Fire, the curse of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, a spectral steamboat on Fulton County's Spoon River and the wandering ghost of Abe Lincoln.

About the Author

Jo-Anne Christensen is the popular author of numerous Ghost House books. Jo-Anne was raised in small-town Western Canada. She says the somewhat limited local entertainment options - mostly curling and hockey - led to an early love of reading, particularly anything with a paranormal flavor. Over the years, she became an avid collector of tales about haunted places, ghosts and other unexplained mysteries. In recent years, she has taken to sharing from her considerable library of paranormal folklore by writing books of ghost stories.

Product Details

• Paperback: 239 pages
• Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing (July 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551052393
• ISBN-13: 978-1551052397
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #932,011 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Reading on a Stormy Night, May 31, 2003

By A Customer

Jo-Anne Christensen is a true story teller. While I did not find this book too awfully scary, I did catch myself looking over my shoulder a few times. Jo-Anne mixes just the right amount of history with the ghost story. She gives you a good background but doesn't bore you either. While most of the stories take place in Chigago, there are a few others to satisfy downstate readers as well. Jo-Anne covers famous Illinois ghost stories like Ressurection Mary and "Bloody Mary" Worth, but she also includes a lot of lesser known ledgends. This is a thick book that I found hard to put down. I would highly reccomend this book to anyone interested in Illinois ghost stories.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Book, October 15, 2005

By	Penny L. Stoehr (Ipava, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book is very interesting. Even my 12 year old Granddaughter has been reading it.
Very prompt in sending the book.
Thank you