Widely Scattered Ghosts

A readers advisory for this collection of nine stories forecasts widely scattered ghosts with a chance of rain. Caution is urged at the following uncertain places: an abandoned mental hospital the woods behind a pleasant subdivision a small fishing village a mountain lake a long-closed theater undergoing restoration a feared bridge over a swampy river a historic district street at dusk the bedroom of a girl who waited until the last minute to write her book report from an allegedly dead author and the woods near a conjure womans house.In effect from the words light of the harvest moon was brilliant until the last phrase forever rest in peace this advisory includes--but may not be limited to--the Florida Panhandle northwest Montana central Illinois and eastern Missouri.