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Ghost stories with a twist

John McNally, the Ollen R. Nalley Associate Professor of English, is the author of two novels and 52 published short stories, and the editor or co-editor of six anthologies of short stories and essays. The ghosts in Associate Professor of English John McNally’s book, “Ghosts of Chicago,” aren’t haunted by spirits, but instead “by deaths, by failed marriages, by lies they’ve told, by crimes committed.”

Financial nightmare?

While many would outlaw "zombie stocks," Sherry Jarrell takes the opposite viewpoint: "If someone wants to go on that haunted trail, let them." Like those creatures in horror films that rise from the dead, zombie stocks — shares of bankrupt companies that failed during the financial crisis — are still on the march.

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