Hawthorne's Odyssey is a collection of ghost stories and tales of the bizarrethat is partly based on historic events that have been fictionalized, familyfolklore and the twisted perception of ordinary events that becameextraordinary. Many of these are ghost stories, while others are steepedin mystery and a lack of understanding of the unknown. And there aresituations and characters that most everyone can identify with especiallywhen your imagination gets the best of you. Some of these stories will makeyou laugh and others will touch your heart, but most of them will makeyou think that the everyday world around us is not as it appears to be.