Haunted French Quarter Hotels by Nicole Beauchamp

Review by: Samantha M. Siciliano

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Quick Summary:

Are you looking for a fun, eerie book for this spooky season? Look no further than Haunted French Quarter Hotels. This book is a paranormal and historical read about ghostly happenings in New Orleans, Louisiana. America is full of cool history and stories. But New Orleans? That’s where history comes to life because of the ghosts. Don’t believe in them? I dare you to stay several nights at any of these hotels! 

The Review:

Haunted French Quarter Hotels has a little something for everyone! It has paranormal hauntings and historical stories of ownership and culture! It indulges in music history, landmarks, and architecture. Most importantly it includes eyewitness accounts of ghostly encounters which all combines into a unique and fascinating type of read.

I read each chapter with enthusiasm and excitement. I would start by of course googling the place and checking out the outside of the building, rooms, courtyards, and lobby. After investigation, I looked at the pictures of the chapter and read the captions. I LOVE A BOOK WITH PICTURES! It confirmed what I had investigated on my own and made me want to read the chapter more. I indulged in the reading after that, and hung on almost every word, not wanting to miss anything!

My two favorite chapters were the Clean Beds, Dread, and Bloodshed and Bidding Adieu to Little Boy Blue. I am a huge fan of American Horror Story: Coven since it came out. It is probably my favorite season of AHS. When I saw the picture at the end of Clean Beds, I became excited because I wanted to know more about the Axeman since he was so elusive. When I finished that chapter, I realized I was left with quite a few new questions, while some of my old ones were answered. In Bidding Adieu, the picture on page 109 with the chef and the apparition of the little girl was stunning. I stared at that picture for quite some time trying to debunk it. However, I could not with the information given and no actual picture. She is kind of transparent as you can still see what is behind her. She is in period clothing. I don’t know anything of the source that had taken the photo. There is a bit of skepticism, but man is it so cool. 

The chapter that tore my soul out of my heart was Shadows of Suffering. The practice of slavery and the dehumanization of blacks is gut wrenching. I sometimes think of when teaching middle school, I couldn’t go into the depths of how gruesome slavery really was without feeling like I might break my kids. I feel like slavery was glazed over when I was in school and it was something that happened in the past and that’s where it stays. However, it’s not. To really understand American History, we must understand how whites treated Blacks and Black slaves. Blacks and African Americans were tortured, murdered, raped, and had their families torn apart. Some of this history is in this chapter. Even people like the Quakers who believed that Blacks should be free, could not understand the pain that the white community inflicted on a race of people. Because of this treatment in the past, there are racial tensions in America today. 

This book was well written, researched, and quite a great read for this spooky season! I will give it a 5/5. Now I just need to go and purchase the author’s other books!

IN CONCLUSION, READ THE FRACKING BOOK!

I received this from Arcadia Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

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