Leanna Renee Hieber

"From the notorious Lizzie Borden to the innumerable, haunted rooms of Sarah Winchester's mysterious mansion this offbeat, insightful, first-ever book of its kind from the brilliant guides behind 'Boroughs of the Dead,' featured on NPR.org, The New York Times, and Jezebel, explores the history behind America's female ghosts, the stereotypes, myths, and paranormal tales that swirl around them, what their stories reveal about us--and why they haunt...

"Unnatural howls echo across the Atlantic, Lady Liberty's torch blazes with hellfire, Dead bodies shamble through the grounds of Columbia College. It's 1882 and two government divisions of paranormal investigators have completed a most harrowing task, stopping a demonic nobleman from taking over the British Parliament. Now the motley crew of psychics, scientists, scholars, and magicians must race across the ocean to Manhattan to protect it from evil...