Ghosts of the Quad Cities

Ghosts of the Quad Cities book program by authors Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin, courtesy of Arcadia Publishing and the History Press.

The authors share the haunted heritage of the Quad Cities at places as  Moline’s Riverside Cemetery and Arsenal Island. The city centers have their own illustrious supernatural residents—the Hanging Ghost occupies Davenport’s City Hall, while the Phantom Washwoman wanders Bettendorf’s Central Avenue.

Mark McLaughlin is a Bram Stoker Award–winning author whose fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in more than one thousand magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies.

Michael McCarty is a five-time Bram Stoker Award finalist and winner of the David R. Collins’ Literary Achievement Award from the Midwest Writing Center. He is the author of more than forty books, including Ghostly Tales of Route 66.

Copies of their book, Ghosts of the Quad Cities are available for sale and signing at the program.