The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

Contents

Contents Introduction page xi 1. Jealous Rivals 1 1. The Phantom Soldier 2. The Mysterious Horseshoe 3. The Damico Family 4. What Price Love? 5. The Legend of Boiling Springs 6. Hunting Friends 7. A Head and a Body 2. Wives Who Return 11 8. The Telltale Lilac Bush 9. The Chain 10. The Face on the Wall 11. Bill White's Wife 12. Uncle Tom Howe 13. The Tragedy at the Spring 14. The Blue Boy Hotel 3. Ghostly Children 25 15. The Little Rag Doll 16. Help 17. The Baby in the Fireplace 18. Rapping on the Door 19. The Boy and the Trumpet 20. The Running Child vii 4. Murdered Kinsmen 34 21. The Glass Jug 22. Chop Chop 23. Rose Run 24. The Brother and His Horse 25. The Shadow on the Wall 5. Omens of Death 40 26. The Gate 27. Shiny Eyes 28. The White Horse 29. The White Stallion 30. White Death 31. A Ride with the Devil 6. Deadly Visions 48 32. A Dream 33. Grandfather's Clock 34. Death Warning 35. The Voice in the Night 36. Vision in a Field 37. Captain Copenhaver's Ghost 38. Christmas Tree 7. Headless Ghosts 57 39. Return of the Headless Man 40. The Headless Rider 41. The Headless Husband 42. The Old Well 8. Hidden Money 62 43. Footsteps on the Walk 44. The Haunted House 45. Aunt Betsy Barr and Her Dog 46. The Ghost Girl 47. Aunt Bett's Ghost 48. Hickory Nuts 9. Haunted Places 70 49. The Floating Coffin viii 50. The Old Burnt House 51. A Skeleton Hand 52. The Upstairs Bedroom 53. Anna Conrad 54. Wizard's Clipp 55. Vinegar Hill 56. The Living Corpse 57. Old Gopher 58. The Ghost of Gamble's Run 10. Negro Slaves 87 59. The Tombstone 60. How Kettle Run Was Named 61. The Cruel Slave Master 62. The Unusual Saddle II. Murdered Peddlers 93 63. A Ball of Fire 64. The Murdered Merchant's Ghost 65. Strange Noises 66. The Tin Cup 12. Mine Ghosts 103 67. Big John's Ghost 68. The Pointing Finger 69. The Old Horse 70. Section South Main 71. The Blue Flame 72. Big Max 73. The Ghost of Jeremy Walker 74. Post Inspection 75. The First Husband of Mrs. James 76. Possessed 13. Railroad Ghosts 120 77. The Body under the Train 78. Boardtree Tunnel 79. The Headless Man 80. The Phantom Wreck ix 14. Animals and Birds 126 81. The Tortured Sparrow 82. The Canary 83. The Cat 84. The Bench-Legged Dog 85. The White Woli 86. The Phantom Dog 87. The Old Sow 88. The lunkman's Horse 89. lack 90. The Strange Chicken 91. A Loyal Dog 15. Weird Creatures 144 92. The White Thing 93. The Strange Creature 94. Shortcut 95. The White Figure 16. Immigrant Ghosts 150 96. Seven Bones 97. The Corpse That Wouldn't Stay Buried 98. Draga's Return 99. The Old Crossroads 100. Footprints in the Snow Notes 163 Bibliography 187 x ...