Editor's note: The following Ghost Story is an excerpt from one of the books in Tyler Tichelaar's trilogy of novels about the history of Marquette, Michigan.

"Why, Pa," said Edna, "I had forgotten it was Halloween. You should tell us one of your ghost stories."

"Oh no, your mother wouldn't like that," Mr. Whitman replied.

"I bet you could tell us one before she finishes the dishes."

"Very well," he said. He had filled his pipe with tobacco as his daughter spoke. Now he lit it, took a good puff, and exhaled enough smoke to raise a sinister fog along the New England coast, where his tale took place.

"Now this story," he began, "was told to me by my Grandfather Whitman when I was young. It dates back to the beginning of this century, and every word of it is true. It concerns a young man named Enoch, and Sabrina, the pretty young girl who had the misfortune to love him. They had grown up in the same little seaside town--known each other since birth in fact, and gone to school together, and when they came of age, they fell in love, and there was talk of their marrying.

"Now Enoch was by no means a handsome boy, and he was not strong or athletic like most of the other young men, but he had a tall figure that stood out in a crowd, and his hard features suggested a determination not really there. Some say he had a little scar over his lip where his older brother struck him with a rock when he was a boy--I don't know whether that's true or not, since I was not there, but what is true--and you can verify this in the town's records--is that his older brother went missing for several days, and when his body was found, it was lying on some rocks along a cliff above the sea. The townsfolk whispered that Enoch had murdered his brother to get revenge for that scar, but it's just as likely his brother's death was an accident and no fault of Enoch's.

"Sabrina paid no heed to any ill rumors about the young man. She had her heart set on Enoch, and he had his heart set on her, and neither of theirparents were opposed to the match. But that spring, Enoch's mother and father both died of the diphtheria, and then that summer, a terrible drought struck. Now Enoch