Antoinette May 
Haunted Houses of California 
A Ghostly Guide to Haunted Houses and Wandering Spirits

From San Diego’s Whaley House to Sonoma’s Valley of the Moon Saloon, California offers an amazing array of haunted sites. Enriched with historical background and generously illustrated, this fascinating, fun-to-read guide documents dozens of chill-inducing spots throughout the state, including hotels, bars, schools, historic buildings, and natural areas. Among the intriguing sites listed are the famous Winchester Mystery House, the infamous Red, White, and Blue Beach, and a host of lesser-known gems like the Easkoot House in Stinson Beach.

About the author

May is a travel writer, a biographer, columnist and psychic. She writes a popular weekly horoscope column for the San Francisco Chronicle under the pen name Minerva, and lectures on parapsychology at universities, colleges, and elsewhere world
wide.

As a psychic researcher whose work has been the subject of such TV documentaries as IN THE SEARCH OF and THE WORLD OF PEOPLE, she has done extensive work on haunted houses, places and sites in California.

Her ADVENTURES OF A PSYCHIC, coauthored with Sylvia Browne, was 42 weeks on the best seller list.

May is the recipient of the pretigous PLUMA de PLATA award from the Mexican government for excellence in travel writing, and has written articles: COSMOPOLITAN, COUNTRY LIVING, VICTORIA, SELF, and VIA.

•Other books by May include:
THE YUCATAN —Guide to the land of Maya Mysteries; Wide World Publishing/Tetra
WITNESS TO WAR—A biography of Marguerite Higgins; Penquin.
THE ANNOTATED RAMONA; Wide World Publishing/Tetra
MY GUIDE -MYSELF-A biography of Sylvia Browne; New American Library
PASSIONATE PILGRAM; Paragon House
MEXICO FOR LOVERS; Wide World Publishing/Tetra