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Shade of Blue and Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War, edited by Steve Berman

  By Nate Feldman This book is an anthology of ghost stories centered around an American Civil War theme.  In all situations, something supernatural takes place, either during the war itself or years after.   An example of this would be the story of the guy who drives a trolley in Gettysburg, which each night takes ghost soldiers to the battlefield, where they re-live the battle. Another example is the ghost of one of the crew members of the Hunley, a Confederate submarine that sunk the Housatonic, a Union ship, wandering Charleston Harbor after his vessel is sunk. There is also a story of a couple that reside in a house in Bucks County PA, a place where two Civil War vets, one from the Union, the other from the Confederacy, were killed accidentally by the Union soldier's wife when they returned from the war.  The soldier's wife mistook them for intruders.  Now, if anyone in the house sees their spirits, a bad fate befalls them.   My personal favo...

Dr. Shivers' Carnival by Fred E. Katz

By Nate Feldman Dr. Shivers' Carnival by Fred E. Katz is about a boy and his three friends from the Midwest coming to California to visit his uncle, a Hollywood executive of some kind.  One day out of nowhere appears a carnival run by Dr. Shivers.  The kids decide to enter it to see what it is about, but they discover it is filled with bizarre, and potentially deadly things, like mummies, werewolves, and giant golf balls trying to squash them.  Will they survive the Carnival of Terror, or will their faith in God guide them to safety?