Disembodied whispers, fading screams and moans from behind walls. Phantom footsteps on the stairs. Furniture scraping across the floor. Doorknobs slowly turning. The ghostly tales range from long-dead relatives returning for a last look at a loved one, to flashing lights and crashing noises in the unoccupied upstairs of the old house down the road: Two showbiz sisters appear in a Seattle-area dancehall long after their days on the stage have past, Hikers in the Cascades are warned not to take a route by a man killed on the same treacherous path, A brawl between two long-deal lovers occurs above a bedroom in Seattle's historic Georgetown district, A man wrongly lynched near Rockford swears revenge on the drunken vigilantes who strung him up; they each die screaming, A phantom bank manager and other spirits are spotted in the Seattle Underground, A spirit hangs out in Port Townsend's luxurious Manresa Castle, A troupe of ghosts inhabits Bellingham's Mount Baker Theatre, while a spirit named Shorty calls Yakima's Capital Theatre home, A musical phantom inhabits a building at Ganzaga University, Spirits ring the bells in the tower of Tacoma's Old City Hall-even after the bells have been made unusable. Murder and tragedy are woven together with mystery and misfortune in this chilling collection of tales from the paranormal. Book jacket.