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  • Creepy Kentucky

    Strange Stories from the Bluegrass State

    Series series American Legends
    The Eerie and Ominous in Kentucky Kentucky is no stranger to strange occurrences. From weird encounters with the Grim Reaper to local graveyard dogs, the Bluegrass State has its share of odd stories. Learn about local ghosts who've haunted areas for years. Encounter body snatchers and some very odd modes of death. Go on the hunt for Daniel Boone's bones and witness the marvelous twisting tombstone ... Read more

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  • Kentucky Book of the Dead

    by Keven McQueen ...
    This illustrated compendium by the author of Horror in the Heartland reveals macabre tales of death, hauntings and unexplained events in Kentucky's past.Author Keven McQueen specializes in uncovering local legends, strange-but-true incidents, and outright hoaxes that newspapers of the past found fit to print. In his Kentucky Book of the Dead, McQueen resurrects creepy stories of life and death in ... Read more

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  • Weird Wild West

    True Tales of the Strange and Gothic

    by Keven McQueen ...
    From gruesome murders to ghost sightings, a collection of historical stories ranging from terrifying Texas to spooky South Dakota.The Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unexplained deaths, bizarre murders, and peculiar burials. This book features numerous tales of true crime and odd phenomena from the ... Read more

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  • Creepy California

    Strange and Gothic Tales from the Golden State

    by Keven McQueen ...
    This "fun primer on California's macabre and eccentric history" explores true crimes, paranormal reports, and other curious tales from the Pacific Coast (Paul Koudounaris).California has many famous wonders—the beaches, vineyards, and glamorous neighborhoods are all well documented in guidebooks. But there are darker wonders here as well—the kind seldom shared with outsiders. In Creepy California ... Read more

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  • Horror in the Heartland

    Strange and Gothic Tales from the Midwest

    by Keven McQueen ...
    A spooky history of the American Midwest—from grave robbers to ghost sightings and more—by the author of Creepy California.Most people think of the American Midwest as a place of wheat fields and family farms; cozy small towns and wholesome communities. But there's more to the story of America's Heartland—a dark history of strange tales and unsettling facts hidden just beneath its quaint pastoral ... Read more

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  • Forgotten Tales of Indiana

    by Keven McQueen ...
    Series series Forgotten Tales
    Author Keven McQueen recalls a time when skunk farms, which allegedly produced a cure for rheumatism, were speckled throughout the countryside and a miserable woman tied her husband to a fence post, coated him with salt and intended to let the cows "lick him to death." Meet the King of the Ghouls, an accomplished grave robber and notorious murderer, and a man so convinced he was an ox that he ... Read more

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  • Bizarre Bluegrass

    Strange but True Kentucky Tales

    by Keven McQueen ...
    From ghost towns to circus performers to mass hysteria, the Bluegrass State is no stranger to the strange. Read stories of famed President Abraham Lincoln you've never heard before. Find possible solutions to the mystery of Pearl Bryan's missing head and decipher the outrageous hoaxes involving an unsolvable puzzle and monkeys trained to perform farm work. Learn about the time when the author ... Read more

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  • Cassius M. Clay

    Freedom's Champion

    by Keven McQueen ...
    The emancipationist Cassius M. Clay has long been one of Kentucky's most controversial and misunderstood figures. This new biography examines his important, though undervalued, place in history from the anti-slavery movement to his role as Lincoln's minister to Russia during the Civil War. Along the way the many fights, romantic entanglements, and political battles of Clay's life are explored. The ... Read more

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  • Historic Louisville Murders

    Series series True Crime
    The Derby City's Dark Side Louisville has a long history of violence and murder. Editor Godfrey Pope shot Leonard Bliss over a political joke. A hanged man was allegedly revived with electricity. Josephine Lawrence was a sex worker bent on revenge with unfortunate bad aim. Two locals engaged in a feud that resulted in one man's death and the other's marriage to the dead man's widow. A United ... Read more

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  • New England Nightmares

    True Tales of the Strange and Gothic

    by Keven McQueen ...
    New England is renowned for its quaint towns, beautiful landscapes, and busy ports. But it is also infamous as the setting for unexplained deaths, ghost stories, bizarre murders, and peculiar wills and epitaphs.In New England Nightmares: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic, author Keven McQueen explores the darker and stranger side of New England and the Mid-Atlantic. With shocking and ... Read more

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  • Gothic and Strange

    True Tales of the South

    by Keven McQueen ...
    Based on newspaper accounts from the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, many from the Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, the bizarre incidents of the South prove that death can be both surprising and macabre. Inspired by articles from the late 1800s to the 1930s, these true tales retain their accuracy but still aim to tell a good story. The stories vary in theme from Graveyard Gossip and ... Read more

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  • Murder in Old Kentucky

    True Crime Stories from the Bluegrass

    by Keven McQueen ...
    A true crime historian brings a light touch to the Bluegrass State's dark past in this revised edition with more stories of racing, bourbon, and murder.In Murder in Old Kentucky, Keven McQueen recounts dark and disturbing tales from the pages of Kentucky history, including the 1825 murder of Col. Solomon Sharp—a sordid affair that inspired Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Penn Warren. He also examines ... Read more

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