Macabre Montreal

Mark Leslie is the author of Creepy Capital and Tomes of Terror as well as many other books on the fascinating and paranormal. He is also the editor of Campus Chills and Fiction River: Feel the Fear. Marklives in Waterloo, Ontario.Shayna Krishnasamy loves a good chilling tale. She is the author of the teen fantasy novel Home, and also writes romance under the pseudonym Lola Rooney. She lives in Montreal.

• Foreword by Donovan King: Montreal, a Haunted Researcher’s Paradise Introduction by Shayna Krishnasamy: I Have Seen Things in the Dark Mary Gallagher and Her Missing Head The Tobogganing Ghost of Simon McTavish Ghosts of the Old Royal Victoria Hospital Sleeping Above a Cemetery: Ghosts of the Grey Nuns Convent The Murderer’s Cross Arthur Ellis and an Accidental Beheading: Canada’s Most Famous Hangman Mark Twain’s Montreal Telegraphy Ghost in the Flames Books, Blood, and a Ghostly Prankster: The Ghost of McLennan Library Cholera Ghosts and Un-Ghosts Haunted Grounds: Ghosts of Duggan House The Echo of Footsteps Clubbers Beware A Montrealer’s Experience with Slade the Spiritualist The Slave Who Burned a City: The Trial of Marie-Joseph AngéliqueThe Redpath Murders The Heroic Death of John Easton Mills The Pervasive Legend of the Flying Canoe: Honoré Beaugrand’s Tale of a Deal with the DevilNow for a Dow Debacle: The Curse of the Old Dow Brewery Unspeakable Torture and Mind Control: Project MK-ULTRA Eight (or More) Ghosts in the Museum Mysteries in the Montreal Skies: UFOs, Flying Saucers, and Other Unexplained SightsMaud: The Willow Inn Ghost Careful, This One Bites: Wayne Clifford Boden, “The Vampire Rapist”The One-Legged Ghost of Jack McLean Murdered by the Mob: Organized Crime in Montreal Give Ghosts a ChanceThe Missing Village of HochelagaNot Too-Tall Tales of a Radio Station GhostOne Town, Two PoltergeistsThe McGill Student Who Killed HoudiniThe Knotty PoltergeistVery Little Rest for These Mount Royal SpiritsLocked Up for an Eternity: Haunted Montreal PrisonsThe Last Hanging: The Crimes of Adolphus DeweyA Timeline of Tragedies: Historic Violence, Massacres, and DisastersConclusion by Mark Leslie: Why Share Macabre Tales?Appendix: More Than Just a Little Fresh Air and an Eerie Perspective: Haunted Montreal Walking ToursAcknowledgementsSources