Book description
Mark Marimen has for years been enmeshing readers in that special blend
of myth, memory and experience that makes ghostlore something that-like
these beautiful, preternatural phenomena themselves-refuses to be
defined. He is enormously attentive to the history of the state's many
treasures: her people, her homes and institutions, her lonely roads and
shorelines. At every turn, Marimen finds something lovely, something
with a story untold, something precious. He treats Indiana's history
and, yes, ghosts, with the same tender care as one might handle a
yellowed love letter, the threadbare frock of a long-dead child, or any
of the dear mementos of days gone past. This delicious volume, Marimen's
latest transcript of the haunting of his state is-as his previous
works-careful, revealing, elusive, transcendent: decidedly
undefinable-and incredibly satisfying. Mark Marimen, a lifelong
Hoosier, resides in northwest Indiana with his wife and daughter. Since
falling in love with ghost stories as a child, he has maintained an
interest in hearing, collecting, and retelling the tales that have
become a part of Hoosier ghostlore.
