Author: Carol Riley Cain
Publisher: Publisher America
ISBN - 13: 978-1424141364
Genre: Horror
It's midnight and you're all alone. Outside your window you see a cloud shading the bright moon. The land once graced by the moon’s light, is now shrouded in darkness. A mysterious fog rolls into the area around your house. An eerie chill soars up and down your spine and you know something is not right. Then the silence of the night is broken by the howling of a wolf and from the fog emerges a figure dressed in a dark cloak. Your heart thumps rampantly and a bloodcurdling scream echoes into the air as the figure reveals its deathly white face and a scythe with blood dripping from the blade.
Ghosts, Spooks, and Spirits of South Texas by Carol Riley Cain, is a short collection of true accounts of ghostly and other paranormal activity experienced by people living in South Texas. The author also gives her own personal accounts of encounters with the spiritual world.
It's been quite a while since I read a collection of true ghost stories and I looked forward to reading this book, as Texas is considered a paranormal hotbed. Being an avid fan of everything that goes "bump in the night", I found Cain's book quite enjoyable to read. There were some truly chilling tales and Mrs. Cain told them in a unique style similar to Stephen King’s earlier works. One story in particular struck an unnerving chord with me and when you read it, an eerie, tingling sensation crawls all over your body. The story is as follows: three boys, Reggie, Sam and Bill, are dared by other college students to go to an abandoned airplane hangar to take numerous pictures inside of it. Unfortunately for the boys, they get more than what they bargained for. As Sam and Reggie go up a ladder to the first floor, they hear a boy crying.
