Ann Hite takes her readers back to Black Mountain with this haunted short story collection. This telling introduces spirits that intervene in the spookiest of ways. “”The Ghost Dog”” brings a young widow, who is a photographer, and her thirteen-year-old son to the foot of Black Mountain to live in a one-hundred-fifty-year-old house. Spirits from the past, inhabitants of the house, come into play. This tale is really two: one told in the present and one in 1940. How can two mothers’ paths converge with decades separating them? “”Take Me Home”” features a young girl whisked away from Black Mountain to stay with her grandmother in a house with the infamous Georgia Central State Hospital almost in its backyard.