From shimmering specters to mysterious tricks, Varla Ventura's Paranormal Parlor includes original supernatural tales, classic ghost stories, legends, hauntings, séances, superstitions, and death customs.

This book showcases a chilling collection of startling ghost stories as told to the author as well as legendary ghosts and haunted locations and an overview of the paranormal parlor games that rose to popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It also includes hidden history such as the story of Mark Twain's ghost, and the quiet horror writings of the architect who started the Gothic Revival movement (Ralph Adams Cram).

"And what of that abandoned home, down yonder lane, whose door is woven shut with the tendrils of ivy? Can a house be haunted not by a supernatural ghost, but by the memories of more glamorous times, of times when the fire was warm on the hearth and the sound of children laughing was common within its walls? We will travel from cemetery gate to underground Paris and learn, among other things, what becomes of a skeptic when they finally see a ghost." –– Varla Ventura

Softcover, 249 pages plus end matter. 2018.