The Face in the Window: Haunting Ohio Tales (The Ghosts of the Past Book 1)
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The Face in the Window: Haunting Ohio Tales (The Ghosts of the Past Book 1)
A SCRAPBOOK OF VICTORIAN HAUNTINGS AND HORRORS
Chris Woodyard, author of the popular Haunted Ohio series, brings you a collection of ghastly stories from Ohio’s dark past. These haunting tales include sightings of spook lights, hell-bound trains, cemetery wraiths, headless ghosts, and stone-throwing spooks, all unearthed from 19th-century sources. The Face in the Window includes: *a snapshot of a ghostly skeleton *the strange saga of a Wooster family plagued by a clothes-slashing spirit *the mystery of the ghostly faces seen in windows all over Ohio *the ghastly Woman in Black of Dayton *the snake who swallowed the peddler *a cat named “Death†who spelled doom for Cincinnati hospital patients *true stories of “cry-baby bridge†ghosts *terrifying fire-starter poltergeists *and many more, all-new tales of Ohio ghosts and hauntings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword – Joseph A. Citro, author of Lake Monsters, Passing Strange, etc. Introduction – A Scrapbook of Victorian Horrors
1. Snapshot of a Ghost: Spirit Photos, Women in White, and Haunted Bridges 2. The Face in the Window: Strange Images in the Glass 3. That Hellbound Train: Headless Conductors and Train Wreck Horrors 4. Rock, Fire, and Scissors: The Mysterious Poltergeist 5. The Death-Bed Promise: Revenge Beyond the Grave in Coshocton 6. Great Balls of Fire: Spook Lights and Mystery Lights 7. The Awful Fate of a Mercer County Blasphemer: The Pinnacle of Prevaricating Perfection 8. A Cat Named Death: Cemetery Spirits, Omens of Death, and Curious Cadavers 9. A Family Bewitched: The Hoffman Poltergeist of Wooster 10. Death in Black Silk: Ohio’s Women in Black 11. The Horrors: Vampires, Madness, and a Haunted Morgue 12. The Babe in the River: The Ghosts of Murder 13. Haunted by Fire: A Fire-Spook in Springfield
Appendix: Spook Squibs: Shavings from the Coffin of News Bibliography General Index Index by County
