ISBN 0-9736686-1-x Ghost Stories 2004 By Nanaimo Authors Ghost Stories 2004 Ghost Stories Stories , Song and poems by Nanaimo writers for the Halloween gathering of the Federation of BC Writersx Mid-Island group. THE PASSAGE UNDER THE GRAVEYARD By Easha Acharya The Scariest Night of All By Yotzy Hasenfratz SCEPTICAL ABOUT GHOSTS! By Kenn Joubert HAIRY HALLOWExEN By Alan Millen The Fourth Monkey By Frank Kimantas The Foreman of Dredge No. 4 By Yvonne Schmidhauser The Haunted Bull Hauler By Al Strano The Haunted House of Halton By Charles Thirkill HAUNTING MEMORY By Trisha The Eyes By M.A. Walker Authors Profiles Easha Acharya Age 12 , Nanaimo student Yotzy Hasenfratz(Ann Scott) I have been living in Nanaimo for the last 50 years plus.I was a traditional (well maybe not) stay at home mom and community volunteer. I have had many jobs, I get bored easily. Shaw TV has let me play in the programming department for many years.I love people, am creative, love to play and have fun. I have a smart mouth, quick witted (or is that dim) and a in your face all round wonder - full person.People either love me to death or hate my guts, no middle ground here.I love to try new things. Kenn Joubert South African born Kenn Joubert is a psychologist By profession.His first short story was published at age 16; he worked as a "District Correspondent" for the Natal Witness; and has published articles in trade and national magazines.Ken is seeking publication of his historic fiction novel Escape to Freedom - the first of a series in "The Huguenot Saga" of life in France in the 1600s and is presently completing the sequel, In search of a Future.He belongs to the Federation of  B C Writers and the South African Writers Circle. Alan Millen He is a poet and songwriter.He left Canada (Vancouver) in 1987 and now lives in Zurich, Switzerland. He graduated from Nanaimo District Secondary School in 1970, where he had the good fortune of having Jack Hodgins as his English teacher."Ah, those were the days," he says. Frank Kimantas Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland. Bored silly studying law at Glasgow University, came to Canada in 1954. The streets were not paved with gold as promised. Studied accounting and got a C.A. Designation. Drifted into taxation, almost as mind-numbing as law. After a reasonably successful career, gratefully retired, gratefully left Ontario and gratefully came to Nanaimo. Enjoys playing bridge and tennis, with occasional forays into writing. Had some poetry and short stories published. Yvonne Schmidhauser Yvonne is the Nanaimo representative for the 'Federation of BC Writers'. After many years of teaching and writing textbooks for adult students in the computer field and language programs she changed her focus to writing short stories and poetry. Her biography of Otto Mueller a Life Between Hitler and Stalin was accepted into the program of the Department of German and Russian Heritage at the State University of North Dakota. Al Strano Gabriola Island, B.C., CanadaVisit: http://members.shaw.ca/elfbrewery/ALnLOUIE/ALnLOUIE.htm Charles Thirkill Charles is the author and photographer of  two beautiful, local nature books called: Nanaimo, City of Living Streams and  The Nature of Nanaimo, published By Coho Books of Canada. Both can be ordered from thirkill@telus.net. TrishaTrisha and Jim Erkiletian  are  local poets and musicians. Melissa Walker Melissa has written several horror shorts, with the goal of eventually compiling them into a book. She's also written several screenplays, the synopses for them available for reading on the web page 'Screenplays From An Alternate Universe'on: http://snurl.com/scriptportal .Melissa also hosts the group 'Scriptwriter's Gathering' in Nanaimo - in person and online.Details about the group can be found on the Nanaimo page of 'ScriptlinksCA'. Specifications Soft cover Format 8 x 5.25" ISBN 0-9736686-1-x Language English Paperback 54 pages Price: $ 7.50 Related Thoughts: All sorts of online education schemes have been proved to be really successful. Many universities offer online degree. One of the examples is Kaplan University. Even now gmat & gre courses are also available on net. Online dictionaries are widely available on net. For example german english dictionary is quite famous. Some dictionaries also offer to translate english to spanish.