When imaginative Laurie, and her sister, Celia, stay with Aunt Serena on Staten Island, New York; a dreary house fascinates them. Celia is interested in discovering why Norman, its boy resident, is unfriendly; Laurie wants to know all about the phantom stagecoach, which is said to draw up to that house on rainy nights. * NOTE ABOUT DERIVING FACTS: Fantastic Fiction is a wonderful website but is not foolproof and has made many errors with Ms. Whitney's classic oeuvres. My own copy declares 1949 as the year of publication. *