The headless horror
Subtitle: strange and ghostly Ohio tales
By: chosen and edited by Chris Woodyard
Series: Ghosts of the past series
Publisher: Kestrel Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dayton, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780988192508
Subjects: American Ghost stories; Ghosts; Haunted houses
Description: A compilation of 19th and early 20th-century newspaper and journal articles on ghosts, hauntings, Forteana, and supernatural mysteries with commentary and annotations by Chris Woodyard.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 253) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A house in which nothing will thrive : haunted and hoodoo houses --; title: The bloody hand of Findlay : and other mysteries in the skies --; title: Spooks in the slammer : haunted jails, haunted prisoners --; title: The odditorium : an Ohio volcano, toad in the rock, and other unnatural wonders --; title: Those who return : the shock of recognition --; title: Black cats and feather crowns : witchery in Ohio --; title: The phantom coffin : and other Ohio apparitions --; title: Letters from the dead : bizarre Ohio mysteries --; title: Glancing beams of moonlight : the ghostly women in white --; title: The malice of inanimate objects : a haunted telegraph, the murderer's clock, and a hoodoo chair --; title: A soul-freezing shriek : ghostly noises --; title: The headless horror : poor pitiful Pearl Bryan --; title: Spook squibs : chips from the headstone of news.