Haunted Houses

Since childhood, Corinne May Botz has had a fascination with the invisible, a phenomenon that has
profoundly influenced her approach to photography in style and subject matter. For more than ten
years, she searched for ghost stories in buildings across the United States. She ventured into these
haunted places with both camera and tape recorder in hand; her photographs, accompanied by firstperson
narratives, reveal a rare glimpse into American interiors, both physical and psychological.
This book includes more than eighty haunted buildings, from the legendary to the ordinary, including
Edgar Allan Poe’s house in Baltimore, a Marriott Hotel in Detroit, a New Jersey tavern and a
Massachusetts farmhouse, a log cabin in Kentucky, and a number of private residences. The text
includes ghost stories told to the author by those who lived through the moving rugs, creaking floors,
apparitions, disappearing—and reappearing—objects, cries in the night, mysteriously burning
candles, and other unexplained occurrences.