Book Review

Title: "Adirondack Ghosts: Stories of Spirits in New York State’s North Country"

RATING: 4 Scarab

Author: Lynda Lee Macken

Reviewer: Dayna Winters

Pages: 80

Publisher: Black Cat Press

Adirondack Ghosts: Stories of Spirits in New York State’s North Country (ISBN-13: 978-0970071811), by Lynda Lee Macken is an 80 page, nonfiction paperback work released by Black Cat Press in August 2000. This work is her first book and one of over a dozen paranormal books that Lynda Lee has written thus far. The book is a fast read and can be enjoyed within a few hours time. It makes for a great book to curl up with to read on a rainy afternoon! Teens and adults will appreciate Lynda’s easy, conversational writing style, and readers will also enjoy the historical information shared about each haunted destination that Macken writes about in Adirondack Ghosts.

For readers that are unfamiliar with Lynda Lee Macken’s work, Lynda maintains a Bachelor’s in Sociology earned at Rutgers University. She is a prolific paranormal author; she is the founder of Black Cat Press, and an individual that maintains a lifelong interest in the paranormal, particularly after her own paranormal experiences at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks. Lynda shared her experiences at the lake on the television series, Unexplained Mysteries in the late 1990s, and her experiences are just one of the many ghostly stories documented in Adirondack Ghosts. Macken has been on numerous television and radio programs ever since and she has been a consultant for PBS, Sightings, the Travel Channel, Paranormal Borderline, and Scariest Places on Earth. Macken has written countless articles for national/regional publications and her writings have appeared in FATE magazine, the Mountain Astrologer, and the Staten Island Advance newspaper among other publications.

Adirondack Ghosts, like all of Lynda’s paranormal books, covers a variety of different haunted establishments including museums, restaurants, resorts, dormitories, and historical sites and homes. Along with the Big Moose Lake murder and haunting, Macken covers paranormal reports occurring at the Garden State Parkway, the Navel Air Warfare Center, and the Surf City Hotel, formerly the Mansion of Health, the Lake Placid Club, Fort Ticonderoga, among others.

Macken’s book offers a fine sample of paranormal events in the Adirondack area. The book leaves the reader wanting to know more details about every case, and for the paranormal investigator, the book can serve as a map for some of the leading haunted hot spots in the area. Adirondack Ghosts is definitely an enjoyable read and one not to be missed by the ghost hunter, the paranormal enthusiast, or the armchair paranormal investigator. All in all, Adirondack Ghosts is a highly enjoyable read.

For more information about Lynda Lee Macken, visit the author's official website. You can also tune into a live interview of the author on ISIS Paranormal Radio conducted in August 2009.