Everywhere I looked, I saw hand-carved trim and lavish use of faux wood-grain painting. Everywhere I walked, I sensed an invisible man with a cigar wandering around the rooms…
“Fatal Staircase” from Spooky New Orleans
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences under the New Orleans skies.
The Big Easy is the kingdom of the strange, scary and gothic and this volume of ghost stories does not disappoint. You will encounter the Pirate’s Ghost, the Zombie, La Mason Mal, the Casquette Girls and the Loup Garou, as well as many other supernatural beings and strange happenings.
Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma’s, this is a collection to treasure.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part One: Ghost Stories
- Counting Roses – St. Roch Cemetery, New Orleans
- Fatal Staircase – San Francisco Plantation, Garyville
- Father Dagobert – St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans
- Ave Maria – A ship bound for New Orleans
- Love Gone Awry – Toulouse Street, New Orleans
- The Myrtles – St. Francesville
- Ghost On the Rooftop – Royal Street, New Orleans
- The Sausage Factory – New Orleans
- Madame’s Revenge – St. Ann Street
- The Pirate’s Ghost – Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop
- Un, Deux, Trois –Bayou Teche
- The Last Laugh – Lafayette
- The Specter’s Treasure – Baseline Ave, New Orleans
Powers of Darkness
- Preemptive Strike – Saint Louis Cemetery Number Three, New Orleans
- The Person Who Bled Hearts Dry – Mississippi Riverfront, New Orleans
- La Maison Mal – LaLaurie House, New Orleans
- Casquettes – St. Ursuline Convent, New Orleans
- The Doctor – New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
- Aidez-Moi – Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans
- Pool of Blood – Constance Street, New Orleans
- It’s Just a Costume, Right? – Bourbon Street, New Orleans
- Forty-Nine Beaus – New Orleans
- Mon Ami, Loup Garou – Governor Nicholls Street, New Orleans
- Death Tree – Gardette Le Prevete House, New Orleans
- Voodoo Queen – St. Ann’s Street, New Orleans
- Zombie – Chalmette Battlefield and Fort St. Phillip
