The Headless Horror - Woodyard, Chris

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Résumé :
Chris Woodyard, author of the popular Haunted Ohio series, brings you the stories that would not die, with this collection of Victorian and Edwardian ghosts, mysteries, and tales of the strange. These chilling stories include reports of Women in White, haunted objects, and unexplained phenomena on earth and in the skies, including early UFOs, witches, and spook lights-all unearthed from original 19th-century sources. Features an entire chapter on the paranormal history of Pearl Bryan, who lost her head in 1896. Did she forgive her killers from beyond the grave? The Headless Horror includes: *The bloody hand of Findlay and other visions in the sky *Hoodoo houses that drove their tenants insane *A haunted telegraph worked by a dead man *A phantom black dog haunting a Logan County cemetery *The Ohio State Penitentiary's cursed Cell 13 *The Haunted coffin-maker of Lancaster *Mysterious feather crowns that spelled death *The headless horror of poor, pitiful Pearl Bryan *and many more, all-new tales of Ohio ghosts and hauntings....

Biographie:
Chris Woodyard is an Ohio writer and historian. She took her degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from The Ohio State University, where her emphasis was on art history. In addition to nine books on Ohio ghost-lore, as well as three volumes of historical ghost stories, she is the author of The Victorian Book of the Dead, on the popular and material culture of Victorian mourning and death and A is for Arsenic: The ABCs of Victorian Death, a book on the basics of Victorian mourning and death....