Tomes of terror: haunted bookstores and libraries

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Foreword: In for a Surprise! / John Robert Colombo -- Preface: My Life-Long Love Affair with Books, Writing, and Things That Go Bump in the Night -- CANADA. The Mischievous Bookseller's Elves -- The Eerie Elevator -- The Hitchhiking Ghost -- Haunted Country Bookshop -- The Runnymede Ghost -- Ghosts in the Attic -- Spirits of the Poorhouse Wretched -- The Rocking Chair Ghost -- Haunted History Books -- Inuit Carving Display Mystery -- Go Toward the Light! -- The Shadowy Figure -- Spectres in the Stacks -- The Miraculous Survival of the Parliamentary Library -- Goosebumps at Smithbooks.;Throughout history, books have inspired, informed, entertained, and enriched us. They have also kept us up through the night, thrilled us, and lured into their endless depths. Tomes of Terror Mark Leslie's latest paranormal page-turner is a compendium of true stories of the supernatural in literary locales, complete with hair-raising first-person accounts. You may even recognize a spectre of your local library lurking in these true stories and photographs. If you have ever felt an indescribable presence hanging about a quiet bookshop, then you'll enjoy these fascinating and haunting tales.