Halifax Haunts
Exploring the City's Spookiest Spaces
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2009
- Category
- Atlantic Provinces
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551097077
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
The streets of Historic Halifax are paved with the dark and eerie tales of its colourful and gruesome past. Shadowy secrets and hints of the unknown are lurking around every corner and in the mist that rolls in from the Atlantic. Centuries of tragic happenstance have left behind many restless spirits that are awaiting your discovery: the ghost of an eighteenth-century French admiral has been spotted marching- to the beat of his own missing heart- across the harbour and through the streets of Halifax; the haunting profile of a victim of the Halifax Explosion has been seen in the window of the city's oldest church; a spectral tall ship has been sighted plying the waters just off Point Pleasant looking for a rematch with its War of 1812 opponent.
Halifax Haunts presents the spooky history behind thirty-three of the city's scariest places. Master storyteller Steve Vernon serves as your trusted guide and offers phenomenal detail while winding you through the ghostly and ghastly happenings that still haunt Halifax to this day.
About the author
Steve Vernon learned the storytelling tradition from his grandfather. As part of the Writers in the Schools program he now teaches this tradition to Nova Scotia children in schools across the province. His books include The Lunenburg Werewolf, the children's picture book Maritime Monsters, and the YA novel Sinking Deeper. Steve has lived in Nova Scotia for nearly forty years. Visit his website at www3.ns.sympatico.ca/stevevernon
Other titles by
More Maritime Murder
Deadly Crimes of the Buried Past
Maritime Monsters
Where the Ghosts Are
A Guide to Nova Scotia's Spookiest Places
Sinking Deeper
Or, My Questionable(Possibly Heroic) Decision to Invent a Sea Monster
Tesseracts Seventeen
Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast
Maritime Murder
Deadly Crimes from the Buried Past
The Lunenburg Werewolf
And Other Stories of the Supernatural
Wicked Woods
Ghost Stories from Old New Brunswick
