“So the boyfriend’s ghost returns on his motorcycle?” she inquired. “Yes,” I said. “The house was torn down a long time ago, but if you park in the place where the house used to be and blink your lights three times, the ghost of the young man will appear on his motorcycle.”
Spooky Ohio
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in this all-new addition to the best-selling Spooky series. Set in the Buckeye State’s big cities and rural communities, along the shores of Lake Erie in the north to the Appalachian Mountains in the south, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again.
Ohio’s folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and in artist Paul Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. Readers will see the mystery of the missing postmaster’s cousin solved, relive the long night a ghost captain saved a sinking ship, laugh along with a prankster who capitalizes on a barber’s ghost, and feel an icy wind on the back of their necks on a warm Ohio evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to Grandma’s, this is a collection to treasure.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part One: Ghost Stories
1. One Hundred Skulls – Kenton
2. An Unsolved Mystery – Liberty Township, Wood County
3. The Motorcycle – Oxford
4. The Hope Chest – Dayton
5. Red Rover – Toledo
6. Memorial – Put in Bay
7. Ohio State Reformatory – Mansfield
8. Isle of Pines – Gallipolis
9. The Barber’s Ghost – Columbus
10. Buxton Inn – Granville
11. Fido Returns – Cleveland
12. The Last Laugh – Ravenna
Part Two: Powers of Darkness and Light
13. Marrying a Ghost – Cincinnati
14. The Hounds of Hell – Springfield
15. The Contract – Defiance
16. Devil Wind – Xenia
17. Ghost Oak – Doylestown
18. Flaming Reflection – Chillicothe
19. Sudden Snow – Cleveland
20. The Bleeding Barn – Fort Recovery
21. Three Warnings – Ashtabula
22. Centennial Ghost – Cincinnati
23. Mother Makes the Match – Sandusky
24. Ghost Raiser – Chester
25. The Bloody Horseshoe – Somerset