The Old Wife's Tales of Mystery, Murder and the Macabre

The Old Wife's Tales is a collection of 45 short stories that range from traditional mystery tales to more unusual horror stories. In this collection, you'll find witches and ghosts, killers and angels, graveyards and prisons, kings and teachers, gargoyles and lighthouses, the unexplained and the supernatural. With stories set in the Celtic highlands; Tudor England; Puritan Salem, Massachusetts; Civil War Gettysburg; the Roaring '20s Chicago; and present-day America, this collection spans both centuries and continents.