A man has escaped a fine after returning a library book 84 years after it was borrowed.
In a Facebook post, the Shreve Memorial Library in Louisiana said: "Better late than never, right? We had a patron return a book to our Main Branch yesterday that his mother checked out in 1934 when she was 11 years old.
The book is a collection of poems written as first-person narratives by the dead residents of the fictional town of Spoon River, reflecting on their lives and deaths.
Jackie Morales, the library's assistant manager, said: "The man was cleaning his parents' home when he found the book and decided to return it. He said it was what his mother would have done."
The library's Facebook post added: "We thought that the title was appropriately spooky to turn up again after all this time right around Halloween."
The stamped library card from the book shows it was due back on 14 April 1934.