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Janessa "Jinx" McCormick loves photography because it's like real life, except she can make it perfect. Using her late father's camera, Jinx takes photos for nearly everyone in her small town of Greenbelt, making her something of a local celebrity. But one day as she's touching up a new photo, Jinx sees . . . something in the background of the image. A shadow that she's certain wasn't in the frame when she captured the shot. Though it's too dark and hazy to see exactly what it is, the shadow looks roughly like a figure. And soon Jinx notices something even more unsettling.

Erin loves her new home in the country. She has a big bedroom that overlooks a beautiful garden, and there's even a tree house in the backyard. Everything is perfect . . . except for the ghost. At first, the ghost is nothing more than a nuisance, pulling Erin's hair, coloring on the walls, and getting Erin into heaps of trouble with her parents. But things become even stranger when Erin starts losing her memory. Sometimes it's only for a few minutes, and other times it's for a few days. It's almost as if she's fallen asleep!

Every state has an urban legend that evokes fear and curiosity in equal parts, and we've chronicled all of these logic-defying horrors here in the Haunted States of America anthology. From the Jersey Devil to La Llorona, each story included introduces a new chill inducing, stomach churning monster, specter, or poltergeist certain to keep you up at night. A broad ranging collection of authors, including seasoned veterans and some first timers making a fright-tastic debut, have all united to unearth the scariest lore from each state in the US, as well as D.C. and Puerto Rico.