Patapsco Spirits: Eleven Ghost Stories

Editorial Reviews

"In this well-crafted and enchanting collection of stories, Addison Hart entices us with glimmers of the preternatural, then slowly lifts the thin veil separating it from the ordinary world of experience. Not to scare or horrify, but—with intimations of a spirit-world on the other side of an invisible partition—to enchant. Hart leads us to encounters in magical, haunted places, and introduces us to ghostly presences 'suspended between the mundane and the miraculous.' So expertly does Hart weave his stories that the reader can sense those presences, making it easy to suspend disbelief."—KENNETH GARCIA, author of the award-winning Pilgrim River: A Spiritual Memoir

"If you ever wondered how M. R. James might have written had he been a modern American, look no further. In this marvelous collection of ghostly tales, Addison Hodges Hart frightens, enchants, and occasionally instructs—without ever descending to the didactic. As with any tellers of ghost stories who succeed at their craft, Hart deals not only with the unseen, but with the intensely regional—in this case a part of Maryland that is close to Baltimore in mileage, but even now far away in soul. These tales are all the more thrilling and real for being squarely set in a moral universe."—CHARLES A. COULOMBE, author of Haunted Places in America, editor of Classic Horror Stories

"In this collection of tales, Addison Hodges Hart renews a venerable literary tradition: the Christian ghost story. For, indeed, what you find here are tales both otherworldly and unapologetically Christian. Every one of them is a delight."—MICHAEL MARTIN, author of Sophia in Exile, editor of Jesus the Imagination