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"Chris Woodyard, author of the popular Haunted Ohio series, brings you this scrapbook of Victorian hauntings and horrors. These ghostly and ghastly stories from Ohio's dark past 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 the Hoffman family of Wooster, plagued by a clothes-slashing ghost *the mystery of the ghostly faces see in windows all over Ohio *the ghastly Woman in Black of Dayton * the snake who swallowed the peddler *a cat named ""Death"" who predicted the demise of 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"

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"Deserves the largest possible public....M.R. James with footnotes..."" -Dr Beachcombing, Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog, strangehistory.net"

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Chris Woodyard is an Ohio writer and historian, author of the Haunted Ohio series, the Ghosts of the Past series--featuring historical ghost stories. Woodyard is also 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, on the basics of Victorian death traditions, illustrated by Landis Blair. Co-host of Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast.

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