The Haunted History of Halloween, Trick or Treating, Seances and other Scary Stories with Lisa Morton.

This week we have the one and only…Lisa Morton! Lisa’s new book Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances comes out this month and with Halloween just around the corner, we thought this would be the perfect way to jump start the spooky season! And OMG do they talk about everything! From the Island of Dead Dolls to LaLaurie Mansion and the Hungry Ghost Festival in China. You’ll find out why our own Ghost Reporter Lisa Morton is one of the most respected Halloween experts in the world! Get read for 90 minutes of pre-October fun! Lisa is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, and prose writer whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening.” She is a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, the author of four novels and over 150 short stories, and a world-class Halloween expert who has appeared on the History Channel, the Travel Channel, the Military Channel, and in the supplements on the Blu Ray release of the movie Trick ‘R Treat. After the release of her acclaimed 2015 book Ghosts: A Haunted History, Lisa was called “one of the world’s leading authorities on the supernatural.” Her 2019 book Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense was called “a work of art” in a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, and as a ghost expert she’s appeared on such shows as Coast to Coast, Midnight in the Desert, Paranormal Perception, and many more. Her recent releases include Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction from Groundbreaking Female Writers 1852-1923 (co-edited with Leslie S. Klinger) and Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances; forthcoming in 2021 is the collection Night Terrors and Other Stories. When she’s not writing or putting together the weekly “Ghost Reports” for Ghost Magnet with Bridget Marquardt, she’s at home in the San Fernando Valley getting ready for Halloween.     Ghost Magnet Podcast Links Facebook: @GhostMagnetTV Instagram: @ghost_magnet_podcast YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxk5t53z Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ghost-magnet-with-bridget-marquardt/id1451559688 Libsyn: https://ghostmagnet.libsyn.com NEW - The Ghost Magnet Shop: https://www.cafepress.com/ghostmagnet   Bridget Marquardt Bridget Marquardt is best known to television audiences and pop-culture connoisseurs as the sweet and brainy star of E! Networks’ wildly popular reality show “The Girls Next Door.” After moving out of the Playboy mansion in January 2009, Marquardt hosted “Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches,” a sixteen-episode series on The Travel Channel in which she traveled the globe searching for the world’s best surf, sand, and sun in countries including Croatia, Jamaica, Thailand, Spain, Australia, and the United States.  Instagram: @BridgetMarquardt Twitter: @Bridget  Facebook: @BridgetMarquardt   Lisa Morton - The Ghost Report Everyday is Halloween to award winning horror author and Ghost Reporter Lisa Morton. She has published four novels, 150 short stories, and three books on the history of Halloween. Her most recent releases include Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writer 1852-1923 (co-edited with Leslie S. Klinger) and Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances. www.lisamorton.com