Real Hauntings 5-Book Bundle. Mark Leslie

Real Hauntings 5-Book Bundle - Mark Leslie


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      Copyright © Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Shayna Krishnasamy, 2018

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      Cover image: © Shayna Krishnasamy

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      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Leslie, Mark, 1969-, author

       Macabre Montreal : ghostly tales, ghastly events, and gruesome true stories

      / Mark Leslie, Shayna Krishnasamy.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-4597-4258-1 (softcover).--ISBN 978-1-4597-4259-8 (PDF).--

      ISBN 978-1-4597-4260-4 (EPUB)

      1. Ghosts--Québec (Province)--Montréal. 2. Haunted places--Québec

      (Province)--Montréal. I. Krishnasamy, Shayna, author II. Title.

BF1472.C3L473 2018 133.109714’27 C2018-904100-5
C2018-904101-3

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       For all the ghosts who roam this city, and for those who run from them

       Contents

       Foreword by Donovan King: Montreal, a Haunted Researcher’s Paradise

       Introduction by Shayna Krishnasamy: I Have Seen Things in the Dark

       Mary Gallagher and Her Missing Head

       The Tobogganing Ghost of Simon McTavish

       Ghosts of the Old Royal Victoria Hospital

       Sleeping Above a Cemetery: Ghosts of the Grey Nuns Convent

       The Murderer’s Cross

       Arthur Ellis and an Accidental Beheading: Canada’s Most Famous Hangman

       Mark Twain’s Montreal Telegraphy

       Ghost in the Flames

       Books, Blood, and a Ghostly Prankster: The Ghost of McLennan Library

       Cholera Ghosts and Un-Ghosts

       Haunted Grounds: Ghosts of Duggan House

       The Echo of Footsteps

       Clubbers Beware

       A Montrealer’s Experience with Slade the Spiritualist

       The Slave Who Burned a City: The Trial of Marie-Joseph Angélique

       The Redpath Murders

       The Heroic Death of John Easton Mills

       The Pervasive Legend of the Flying Canoe: Honoré Beaugrand’s Tale of a Deal with the Devil

       Now for a Dow Debacle: The Curse of the Old Dow Brewery

       Unspeakable Torture and Mind Control: Project MK-ULTRA

       Eight (or More) Ghosts in the Museum

       Mysteries in the


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