The bleeding door
By: Todd Cook
Publisher: Köehler Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Virginia Beach, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781633931213
Subjects: Vendetta; Fiction; Historical fiction
Description: In 1799, a teenage boy is found dead in his dormitory room at Bethel Academy, a Methodist school located on the remote frontier of central Kentucky. Though the boy died violently, his death was witnessed by no one. Seventy years later, another young man, one of southern Appalachia's most feared and despised feudists, is likewise found dead inside a deserted millhouse under mysterious circumstances. Though the two deaths would seem to have little in common given the years and distance separating them, they are very much connected. Linking these two tragic figures are a succession of frontier preachers, a troubled Shaker village and isolated mountain communities terrorized by witches, ghost "haynts", and deadly clan feuds.
Notes: Tood Cook currently lived in the East Bay area of California with his wife, Elsie. History and numismatics remain two of his favorite writing subjects. Todd helped edit the book, "Chaplaincy: being God's presence in closed community." He is also writing the biography of Philippines and India missionay, Elsie Cook.

Bethel Academy was the first Methodist school established in the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains. Established by Francis Asbury in 1790,[3] the school operated in present-day Jessamine County, Kentucky until 1805.