ADDISON HODGES HART is the author of ten previous books, including nine volumes of non-fiction and a novel, Confessions of the Antichrist, published by Angelico Press. His most recent book, also published by Angelico Press, is The Voyage of Life: The Sacred Vision of Thomas Cole (2023), a work combining art history, philosophy, spirituality, and biography. A native of Ellicott City, Maryland, he has drawn on his own experience of that region in writing this collection of spooky tales. He currently resides in Norway. (He also has a lively, easy-to-access Substack page, The Pragmatic Mystic, that deals with topics related to his books.)