The Midnight Hour: Canadian Accounts of Eerie Experiences

by John Robert Colombo

Overview

The Midnight Hour is amazing, amusing, and frightening. It will make you pause to wonder - about ghosts and spirits, fate and destiny, strange beasts and even stranger human beings. The accounts within describe encounters in Canada with monsters and mysteries from 1784 to the present. Editor and anthologist John Robert Colombo derived these true tales from nineteenth-century newspapers, personal correspondence, e-mails, interviews, and more. The collection is certain to entertain you … especially during "the midnight hour"!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781459720497
Publisher:	Dundurn Press
Publication date:	02/01/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	368 KB

About the Author

John Robert Colombo is nationally known as "the Master Gatherer" for his many compilations of Canadiana. He has been called "Canada's Mr. Mystery" for such books as Mysterious Canada and Ghost Stories of Ontario. Colombo once said, "I do not believe in ghosts, I do not disbelieve in ghosts, but I do believe in ghost stories."

John Robert Colombo, the author of the best-selling Colombo's Canadian Quotations and Fascinating Canada, has written, translated, or edited over two hundred books. He is the recipient of the Harbourfront Literary Prize and the Order of Canada, and is a Fellow of the Frye Centre.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Columbo takes his customary value-added approach in The Midnight Hour...any reader who agrees to suspend the reality question will have a fine time combing through the many tales...." -Paul Challen, Quill & Quire, April 1, 2004

Editorial Reviews

"Columbo takes his customary value-added approach in The Midnight Hour...any reader who agrees to suspend the reality question will have a fine time combing through the many tales...." -Paul Challen, Quill & Quire, April 1, 2004

From the Publisher