Ghosts In American Houses Author:James Reynolds One spring morning several years ago I started out from North Cliff Farm in Virginia on an adventure that had long been prodding my mind. I planned to spend the better part of a year motoring the length and breadth of the country, painting a series of canvasses. I wished to document the American scene, emphasizing particularly the architecture o... more »f the various regions..." "I was told hundreds of ghost stories, tales of endless variety, some not suitable for brush or pen, and as the weeks passed I realized I was becoming intimately acquainted with an American tradition of folklore of tremendous vitality and importance." "And so in this book, in word and picture, I present a kind of panorama of the disparate personalities whose perturbed shades still bulk large in ghostly legends of the American scene.« less