Strange Ghosts

Equal parts riveting and stirring, Carter takes a staple of campfires and rainy nights -- the ghost story -- into surprising new territory in this collection. No gore or gratuitous splatter here -- these tales are meant to raise the hairs on the back of the neck and leave the reader feeling quietly discomfited hours after reading.

On a dark night in the Virginia woods, a boy encounters a former slave protecting the Confederate sword of Robert E. Lee in the spellbinding "The Sword of Surrend...