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HAUNTED OHIO V: 200 YEARS OF GHOSTS

GHOST HUNTER'S GUIDE TO HAUNTED OHIO

SPOOKY OHIO: 13 TRADITIONAL TALES

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HAUNTED OHIO V:

200 YEARS OF GHOSTS

 by Chris Woodyard

Publisher: Kestrel Publications, 1811 Stonewood Dr, Dayton, OH 45432-4002, (937) 426-5110, www.invink.com, invisiblei@aol.com

Publication Date: September 2003

ISBN: 0-9628472-8-3 trade PB 0-9628472-7-5  library binding

Pages and format: 230 pages (x + 212 + 8 pg. photos), 5 x 8”

Price: $15.95 library binding [trade OP]

Features: 8 pages of b&w photographs, bibliography, general index, index of stories by county, addresses of sites open to the public. Nearly all NEW sites and stories.

How to Order: 1) Mail to Kestrel Publications at address above. 2) Call (937) 426-5110. 3) FAX PO to (937) 320-1832. 4) E-mail to invisiblei@aol.com. 5) Check your local bookstore 6) Major Distributors: Partners, Baker & Taylor, Folletts.  Add $3.00 s&h for the first book and $1.00 per book after that up to a maximum of $8.00

Blurb: In honor of Ohio’s BOO-centennial year, Chris Woodyard, author of the popular Haunted Ohio series, brings you over 80 all-new tales from haunt-spots around the state from Adena to Zoar. You’ll meet the ghosts of the Indian martyrs of Gnadenhutten, a spectral soldier from the siege of Ft. Meigs, the phantom Phoebe, keeping an eye on the canal boats at Roscoe Village, the African American ghosts of Prospect Place, a stop on the Underground Railroad, and many other tales that reflect the history as well as the ghostly lore of the Buckeye State.

Stories from the following counties:Adams, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Coshocton, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Darke, Erie, Fairfield, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Guernsey, Hamilton, Hardin, Henry, Highland, Jefferosn, Lake, Lawrence, Logan, Lorain, Lucas, Madison, Marion, Montgomery, Morgan, Muskingum, Paulding, Pickaway, Pike, Portage, Putnam, Richland, Ross, Shelby, Stark, Summit, Tuscarawas, Union, Van Wert, Warren, Wood.

Introduction

Prelude: The Skull Beneath the Skin

1. Disease and Disaster: The ghosts of tragedies past

2. Dining with the Dead: Haunted restaurants and bars

3. The Final Station: Ghosts of the Underground Railroad

4. Phantoms of the Furniture: And other eerie objects

5. Ghosts Along the Maumee: Phantoms of Ft. Meigs

6. Dead Zones: They live again…

7. Stage Frights: Theatre ghosts and film phantoms

8. Polt-pourri: Assorted apparitions and brief encounters

9. Trading in Terror: Haunted businesses

     10. Haunts from History: Historical homes and museum ghosts

11. The Horrors of Homicide: Ghostly echoes of murder

12. The Saddest Place in Ohio: Gnadenhutten

 Appendix 1 – Fright Bites:

     Still more mini-tales of the macabre

Appendix 2 – Haunted Places:

     Sites open to the public

CONTACT:

Kestrel Publications

1811 Stonewood Drive

Dayton, OH 45432-4002

937 426-5110

GHOST HUNTER’S GUIDE TO HAUNTED OHIO

Author: Chris Woodyard

Publisher: Kestrel Publications, 1811 Stonewood Dr, Dayton, OH 45432-4002 (937) 426-5110, www.invink.com

Publication Date: September 2000

ISBN: 0-9628472-6-7

Pages and format: 224 pages (x + 212), 6 x 9

Price: $16.95

Features: Four-color cover, map, b&w photographs throughout, bibliography, general index, index of stories by county, addresses of sites open to the public, list of Ohio ghost tours, appendix of ghost-hunting tips. Nearly all NEW sites and stories.

Stories from the following Ohio counties: Clermont, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Geauga, Hamilton, Licking, Lucas, Medina, Montgomery, Ottawa, Perry, Richland, Ross, Warren, Washington, Wood.

Blurb: Chris Woodyard, author of the popular Haunted Ohio series, takes you on a terrifying tour of Boo-tiful Ohio’s public haunt-spots. Meet the solitary spirits of "The Hole" at Mansfield’s gothic Ohio State Reformatory. Sit down to lunch with a ghostly little girl at The Golden Lamb in Lebanon. View the treasures at Cincinnati’s Taft Museum of Art with Annie Taft as your ghostly guide. Check out a haunted library roamed by the spirit of a disemboweled doctor. Or spend a restless night at a haunted inn in a room with a boo…. From friendly to fearsome, these are chilling stories of places you can visit---if you dare.

Haunted tours in Ohio

Appendix 2- Wild Ghost Chase:

How to Hunt Ghosts

General

By county

SPOOKY OHIO: 13 TRADITIONAL TALES

FOR GRADES 4-7

Author: Chris Woodyard

Illustrator: Jessica Wiesel

ISBN: 0-962847232 PB

0-962847240 Library Edition

Pages and format: 96 pp. 6x9 trade paperback

Price: $9.95 

Features: black and white scratchboard illustrations, notes on sources, historical notes and glossary of old-fashioned words, bibliography, index

Blurb: Thirteen terrifying traditional folktales for grades 4-7 from the author of the popular Haunted Ohio series. A headless horseman, the vengeful ghost of a jilted bride, the Devil disguised as a black dog, and a sad little girl ghost are only a few of the terrors that roam these pages. The chilling black-and-white illustrations will keep your Goosebumps readers up at night!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. The Bride at the Bridge

2. The Seven Dachshunds

3. The Headless Soldier

4. Poke-Bonnet Kate

5. The Buggy Bogle

6. The Rain Drum

7. The Accidental Apparition

8. The Second Soldier

9. The Headless Horseman of Cherry Hill

10. The Rag Doll

11. Girard's Head

12. The Black Dog

13. Old Man Pressor

About the Stories

Historical Notes and Glossary of Old-Fashioned Words

Where to Find More Spooky Stories

Index

Publisher: Kestrel Publications, 1811 Stonewood Dr., Dayton, OH 45432-4002 1-937-426-5110

Publication Date: October, 1995

Counties covered: Butler, Clermont, Columbiana, Fayette, Greene, Muskingum, Putnam, Ross, Tuscarawas, Williams

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