Horror in the Heartland

Keven Mcqueen

Description

Brace yourself for a journey into a creepy, dark side of the American Midwest you thought you knew—a side teeming with real-life surrealism and historical horror-comedy. From tales of the booming grave-robbing industry of late 19th-century Indiana to the story of a Michigan physician who left his estate to his pet monkeys, Keven McQueen investigates a spooky and twisted side of Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Exploring burial customs, unexplained deaths, ghost stories, premature burials, the industry of grave robbing, bizarre murders, peculiar wills and much more, this creepy collection reveals the colorful untold stories of the region and offers intriguing, if sometimes macabre, insights into human nature and our history.

A fun and frightful look at a vein of darkness running through the Midwest, Horror in the Heartland promises to send chills down your spine.

1. Eerie Indiana
2. Outlandish Illinois
3. Odd Ohio
4. Creepy Kansas
5. Nightmarish Nebraska
6. Unusual Iowa
7. Macabre Minnesota
8. Weird Wisconsin
9. Mysterious Michigan

Sujets

• Midwest
• Unexplained Phenomena
• HISTORY
• Medio Oeste de Estados Unidos
• Ghosts
• Mensajería instantánea
• Unexplained
• Body (disambiguation)
• True Crime
• Midwestern United States
• History of the Americas
• Horror
• Supernatural
• Hurlements 2
• United States
• KS
• Ghost
• Middle West
• IL
• ND
• IN
• NE
• OH
• MN
• SD
• MO
• MI

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 07 août 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9780253029126
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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HORROR in the Heartland

HORROR in the Heartland

Strange and Gothic Tales from the Midwest

KEVEN MCQUEEN

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Nàéŝ: çQûéé, Kéé, àûô. Té: ôô  é éàà : ŝàé à Gôç àéŝ ô  é éŝ / Kéé çQûéé. éŝçô: 1ŝ [éô]. | ôôô : àà Uéŝ éŝŝ,  2017. | çûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ. éiéŝ: ÇÇN 2017011847 () | ÇÇN 2017024719 (éôô) |  ŚN 9780253029126 (é-ôô) | ŚN 9780253029041 (. : à.  àé) | ŚN 9780253028907 (çô : à. àé) Śûéçŝ: ÇŚ: àûé àçéŝ—é éŝ. | Gôŝŝ—é  éŝ. | Çûôŝéŝ à ôéŝ—é éŝ. | é éŝ—  ŝçéàéà. Çàŝŝiçàô: ÇÇ 1472.U6 (éôô) | ÇÇ 1472.U6 437 2017  () | Ç 398.20977—ç23 Ç éçô àààé à ŝ://çç.ôç.ô/2017011847

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