New England Nightmares True Tales of the Strange and Gothic [Hardcover]

New England is renowned for its quaint towns, beautiful landscapes, and busy ports. But it is also infamous as the setting for unexplained deaths, ghost stories, bizarre murders, and peculiar wills and epitaphs.

InNew England Nightmares: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic, author Keven McQueen explores the darker and stranger side of New England and the Mid-Atlantic. With shocking and unforgettable tales from the tip of Maine all the way to the New Jersey shore, this eerie collection explores our fascination with death and the unknown, including tales of medical students digging up bodies to dissect, of a murderer's bones being wired together after death, and of Dr. Timothy Clark Smith, who requested that he be buried with a breathing tube and glass window so he could see the outside world.

An intriguing and frightful look into the odder side of the Northeast,New England Nightmarespromises to send chills down your spine.

New England is infamous as the setting for unexplained deaths, ghost stories, and bizarre murders. An intriguing and frightful look into the odder side of the Northeast,New England Nightmarespromises to send chills down your spine.

Keven McQueen is the author of numerous books, includingHorror in the Heartland, Creepy California,The Kentucky Book of the Dead, Murder and Mayhem in Indiana,andThe Axman Came from Hell and Other True Crime Stories.He isan instructor in the Department of English at Eastern Kentucky University.

1. Nefarious New York

2. Nightmarish New Jersey

3. Vermont Vagaries

4. Recondite Rhode Island

5. Creepy Connecticut

6. Morbid Maine

7. Dreadful Delaware

8. Macabre Massachusetts

9. Numinous New Hampshire

10. Peculiar Pennsylvania

From the moment I picked up Keven McQueen's new book I couldn't put it down. As always, he's the master of combining wit and history for a very enjoyl3©