Back Cover: Hollywood has meant many things to many people throughout its illustrious history, but nowadays, Tinseltown is best known for the three G's: Glitz, Glamour, and Ghosts. Read about:

• The celebrity apparitions who touch visitors with ghostly hands at the Hollywood Wax Museum;

• The phantom bartender who startles diners at the elegant Yamashiro Restaurant;

• The lively spirits at The Formosa Cafe who drink right along with the customers;

• Clift Montgomery's bugle call at The Hollywood Roosevelt or Janis Joplin's presence at the Highland Gardens Hotel;

• Bela Lugosi's daily visit to the famous intersection of Hollywood and Vine; and

• The final resting place for dozens of Hollywood luminaries at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

     Read about curses and murder and mayhem aplenty, for in Hollywood, the show still goes on.

Trauma, intense emotions such as love or hate and even vengeance can tie a spirit to its surroundings, and Hollywood has its share of all of them.  ---- David Wells

Clifton Webb refuses to accept the fact that he's dead. He often visits his home on Rexford Drive, but prefers staying close to the cemetery.  ---- Kenny Kingston

(On meeting Janis Joplin on the astral plane) To me, it's probably one of the top five highlights of my entire life. What I saw, what she showed me was beyond anything I ever expected. ---- Chris Fleming

Hollywood is a transient place, so you're going to have transient ghosts. I don't think that a lot of the spirits here are crossed over, nor do they want to be. ---- Victoria Gross