Delaware Press Association
First Place Award
1998

Features 19 true ghost stories and two popular legends. The chapters include tales of haunted Indian sites, ghosts in Baltimore Harbor on the USS Constellation, a floating casket that comes home to rest in Accomack County, Va., ghost stories from Tangier Island, the "Dream Lady" in Talbot County, Md., and haunted inns in New Castle, Del., and Salem, N.J.

"Okonowicz lulls the reader into a false sense of security and then—Wham!—he hits you with some terrifying detail..."
— Chris Woodyard, Invisible Ink

"So make some hot chocolate, turn out the lights, light some candles and read this local ghost story aloud."
— The Sentinel-Ledger [Ocean City, N.J.]