Author shares peninsula
ghost tales with young readers
Stevens hopes to inspire
curiosity about local history
BY ZOE BUCHLI
The original structure of the Shelburne Hotel, a site featured in Stevens’ new book.
With a collection of nearly a dozen ghost
stories, author Sydney Stevens has a new
book for younger readers looking to explore
the history of Pacifi c County.
Stevens, an Oysterville, Washington, res-
ident, will debut “The Ghostly Tales of the
Long Beach Peninsula,” a new collection of
short stories, this month. The book will give
young readers a chance to immerse them-
selves in the haunted history of the south-
west Washington state coast.
The book is an adaptation of Stevens’
“Ghost Stories of Long Beach Peninsula,”
a comprehensive ghost history of the p en-
insula penned for adult readers. “This is a
wonderful way to advance interest in his-
tory,” Stevens said of the new version.
Throughout the book, readers investigate
10 short mysteries. These include a tragedy
at Sprague’s Hole, a site between Ocean
Park and Nahcotta where three young boys
‘The Ghostly
Tales of the
Long Beach
Peninsula’
Arcadia Children’s
Books – $12.99.
Part of the
‘Spooky America’
series. Available
at local book-
stores,
museums, Amazon books and at
arcadiapublishing.com.
For more about the author, visit
sydneyofoysterville.com.
once drowned under suspicious circum-
stances. Stevens also adapted a story from
the Shelburne Hotel, a Seaview treasure
where one of the coast’s most notorious
ghosts is said to reside.
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