Back Cover:  Small and alluring, Rhode Island is home to many who refuse to leave, even after death. Here are the tales of hauntings, vampires, mysterious cairns, wailing brooks, and floating coffins to be encountered throughout Rhode Island by those courageous enough to seek them.

Haunted locations include Barrington, Bristol, Burrillville, Charlestown, Coventry, Cranston, Cumberland, East Providence, Exeter, Foster, Glocester, Jamestown, Middletown, Narragansett, New Shoreham, Newport, North Kingstown, Portsmouth, Providence, Scituate, Smithfield, South Kingstown, Tiverton, Warren, Warwick, West Greenwich, West Warwick, Westerly, and Woonsocket.

Long dead sailors prowl lonely docks, departed schoolmasters seek their charges, phantom girls giggle in a state park, ambushed soldiers of centuries past wail in despair, and a mysterious man in gray walks among the tombstones. These are only a few of the tales sure to chill you in the dead of night!

Back Cover: New Hampshire is a state rich with history; some of it haunted. Explore the ghosts and their haunts in towns such as Alton, Dover, Franconia, Litchfield, Nashua, Portsmouth, and West Chesterfield that will leave your senses tingling with adventure. Get the shivers as you:

• Visit spirits of yesteryear still lingering in the historical societies of Goffstown and Hampton, New Hampshire.

• Join the ghosts of haunted restaurants and taverns in Concord, Laconia, Merrimack, and Windham as they loiter in their favorite rooms.

• Sit a spell in a haunted hotel in Bretton Woods or nestle into an eerie Durham bed-and-breakfast.

• Take a tutorial in terror at one of the many schools in Keene where immortal tenants roam the halls.

• Encounter a dead pirate in the Isles of Shoals or banshee on an island off the smallest coastline in the United States.

• Stopover to see the haunted cemetery in Hollis and Conway where the dead rise from their tombs and glow before your eyes.

These tales, and more throughout New Hampshire, will keep you chilled as you explore its ghostly side.