title: The Ghost Handbook: An Essential Guide to Ghosts, Spirits, and Specters
author: Dr. Robert Curran
description: Dr. Robert Curran is a teacher and writer who has a doctorate in educational psychology. He is also an advisor to governmental agencies in the U.K. However, he previously held a variety of more unusual jobs, including comic strip writer and gravedigger. His previous books include <i>The Wizards' Handbook</i> and <i>The Zombie Handbook,</i> both available from Barron's. He lives in Northern Ireland with his wife and children.
zlib_text: The Ghost at His Back
  
  
  
  Cameron Lowe
  
  
  
    
  
  Copyright (C) 2016 Cameron Lowe.
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by mechanical or
  electronic means, including information storage and retrieval systems without
  written consent from the author, save for the use of brief quotations in a
  review.
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents are either
  fictitious or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons,
  businesses, locales, or events is purely coincidental.
  
    
  
  For Ryan, Mom, and Dad,
  
  Please skip past the dirty parts. And the violent stuff. And the scary bits.
  In fact, after you’ve finished with this page, just pretend you’ve read it.
  Cool? Cool.
  
  
  
    
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  
  “Ghosts are assholes.”
  
  The bartender stopped running a greasy rag through an equally greasy glass and
  gawked at the shabbily dressed man sitting on one of his well-worn stools. The
  guy was the only other one in the bar. The cold was hellish out