The city of Athens is a picturesque, quintessential southern town in north central Alabama, full of folklore and history. The town may also have more ghost stories per capita than any other town in the South. This book collects, for the first time, the best ghost stories that Athens has to offer. You'll read about:

* the frenzied spirits that beat on the windows of town square buildings in their attempt to escape an 1893 inferno;

* the phantom grandfather clock in the George S. Houston Library and House that chimes but cannot be found;

* the lonely ghost of Founders Hall whose...