Ghosts Along the Texas Coast

Loved thisI am from the Golden Crescent area of Texaswhich is 1/2 way between Houston & Corpus Christiand in a triangle with San Antonio & Austinso it was a very interesting readI will say, some things were "distracting" with so many uses of the ! after sentencesIt was a bit extreme to use all these exclamation pointsvery poor editing!

Thanks for writing this book. Beaver Bishop was actually my husbands great uncle. So it was interesting to read and learn about him. We've heard a lot of stories, but never seen anything in print.

A well-researched collection of ghost stories, ranging from thebeginning of Texas history through the late 1880s-early 1990s. Unlike a lot of writers on this topic, Docia Shultz Williams makes the effort to conduct interviews, and do research, rather than (for the most part) rely on "this happened to a friend of a friend of a friend"-type recollections. Most of the recent stories claim to be first-hand accounts, and the rather substantive bibliography at the back shows actual research and investigation was done. Further, the author shows admirable restraint in not embellishing the stories told her with extra "spooky" details to punch them up, which makes the stories themselves more believable. Very entertaining, especially if you are familiar with this part of Texas.

I am a huge fan of Dolcia Schultz Williams so this is an incredible piece to add to my collection of Texas hauntings...So worth reading!

After visiting Galveston, I decided to pick this up to learn more about the town's haunted history. This book contains several short ghost stories, arranged by geographic location, about various towns along the Texas coast. It also contains several other ghost stories about town is central and west Texas. Not bad, but I thought the stories could be a bit more detailed, and the book seemed very dated.