The Stories That Haunt Us: More Terrifying Tales from the Author of Maritime Mysteries

Richard Wilbur is author of The Rise of French New Brunswick and H.H.
Stevens, 1878–1973, and co-author of Silver Harvest: The Fundy
Weirmen’s Story. His latest book is Horse-Drawn Carriages and Sleighs:
Elegant Vehicles from New England and New Bruns

As the subtitle indicates, the author is assuming a certain familiarity
with his potential readers, probably with reason, since he has produced
two earlier collections of stories recycled from his “popular Maritime
Mysteries television series.” The 50 stories in this collection vary
in length from a scant two or three paragraphs to more than 20 pages,
the majority averaging two or three pages. Regardless of their length,
all the stories are entertaining and readable, which probably explains
the popularity of the televised versions.

Thirty-seven of the stories have rural or small-town Nova Scotia
settings, 12 have no geographic reference, six refer to New Brunswick
locations, and one takes place on Prince Edward Island. The stories are
organized into six sections: “Roadside Spectres,” “Haunted
Houses,” “The Missing,” “Seeing Things,” “Unfinished
Business,” and “You Can’t Outrun a Forerunner” (the last line of
this story explains its curious title: “The forerunner had caught up
with Old Murdoch in the end. Death always does”).

The Stories That Haunt Us is a diverting collection of tales that will
appeal to all who love the supernatural.