2013 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award -- Shortlisted, Nonfiction
Hamilton, Ontario, may seem just like any other city, but a haunted past is hidden beneath it.
From the Hermitage ruins to Dundurn Castle, from the Customs House to Stoney Creek Battlefield Park, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, is steeped in a rich history and culture. But beneath the surface of the Steel City there dwells a darker heart -- from the shadows of yesteryear arise the unexplainable, the bizarre, and the chilling.
Lock the doors and turn on all the lights before you...
2013 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award -- Shortlisted, Nonfiction
Hamilton, Ontario, may seem just like any other city, but a h...
A supernatural tour of bookstores and libraries around the world, focusing on the ghost stories from haunted locations.
Throughout history, books have inspired, informed, entertained, and enriched us. They have also kept us up through the night, thrilled us, and lured into their endless depths. Tomes of Terror is a celebration and an eerie look at the siren call of literature and the unexplained and fascinating stories associated with bookish locations around the world.
Mark Leslie s latest paranormal page-turner is a compendium of true stories of the...
A supernatural tour of bookstores and libraries around the world, focusing on the ghost stories from haunted locations.
There's nowhere to hide when everybody you know or meet is trying to kill you. Scotty Desmond's day begins like any other until his boss calls him into the office, pulls out a gun and starts shooting at him. Scott manages to escape the surprise assassination attempt, but everyone else he meets, colleagues, friends and strangers alike are all similarly obsessed with killing him. Will Scott survive long enough to understand what is behind the relentless attacks and how it might relate to the investigation into his father's mysterious death?
There's nowhere to hide when everybody you know or meet is trying to kill you. Scotty Desmond's day begins like any other until his boss calls him int...
A supernatural tour of the Ottawa region with ghostwatcher Mark Leslie as your guide.
Come along with paranormal raconteur Mark Leslie as he uncovers first-person accounts of ghostly happenings throughout Ottawa and the surrounding towns the whole region is rife with ghostly encounters and creepy locales.
Discover the doomed financier who may be haunting the Chateau Laurier. Experience the eerie shadows and sounds at the Bytown Museum. Listen to the echoing howls of former prison inmates at the Nicholas St. Hostel. And feel the bitter sadness of the ghost of...
A supernatural tour of the Ottawa region with ghostwatcher Mark Leslie as your guide.
Come along with paranormal raconteur Mark Lesli...
A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on.
Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But with all of the varying highs and lows that are experienced in these buildings, is it any wonder when echoes linger indefinitely? How about asylums, which house some of society's worst offenders and troubled inmates, or sanatoriums, places where the mentally and physically ill find themselves trapped, even after death?
Journey inside the history of these macabre settings...
A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on.
