Description:
Divided by state lines and the Mississippi River, the Quad Cities share a common haunted heritage.
If anything, the seam that runs through the region is especially rife with spirits, from the Black Angel of Moline's Riverside Cemetery to the spectral Confederate POWs of Arsenal Island. Of course, the city centers have their own illustrious supernatural residents - the Hanging Ghost occupies Davenport's City Hall, while the Phantom Washwoman wanders Bettendorf's Central Avenue. At Igor's Bistro in Rock Island, every day is Halloween. Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin hunt down the haunted lore of this vibrant midwestern community.
Brief description: Mark McLaughlin is a Bram Stoker Award-winning author whose fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in more than one thousand magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies, including Writer's Digest Magazine, Cemetery Dance and The Year's Best Horror Stories (DAW Books).
Michael McCarty is a five-time Bram Stoker Award finalist and winner of the David R. Collins' Literary Achievement Award from the Midwest Writing Center. He is the author of more than forty books, including Ghostly Tales of Route 66, Conversations with Kreskin (cowritten with The Amazing Kreskin) and Modern Mythmakers.