Haunted Charleston Stories from the College of Charleston, the Citadel and the Holy City

"There is only one essential ingredient in a ghost story: death." So say Charlestonians Ed Macy and Geordie Buxton in their introduction to Haunted Charleston. On the age-old streets of Charleston, where true life is stranger than fiction, narrators Macy and Buxton leave embellishment by the wayside to let these stories-in ghastly and sometimes dreadful detail-tell themselves. By rambling through the oft-forgotten enclaves of the Holy City, the authors bring the reader face to face with a group of orphans who haunt a College of Charleston dorm, a Citadel cadet who haunts a local hotel and the specter of William Drayton at Drayton Hall Plantation, to name just a few. Based on historical events and specific details that are often lost in our general notion of ghosts, each haunting encounter will send chills through the reader's senses. From a bookstore phantom, notorious for rearranging books in perfect vertical stacks, to a gruesome nineteenth-century amputation taking place again in a medical student's apartment. Macy and Buxton offer up stories and essays of a nature more grim and morbid than ever heard of before.Macy, Ed is the author of 'Haunted Charleston Stories from the College of Charleston, the Citadel and the Holy City', published 2004 under ISBN 9781596290112 and ISBN 1596290110.