About this item
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.
About the Author
I am an instructor in the Department of English at Eastern Kentucky University and I have written twelve books on biography, history, folklore, ghostlore, natural disasters, and historical true crime. Most of my books concern Kentucky, but a couple are centered on Indiana and my 2011 book "The Axman Came From Hell and Other Southern True Crime Stories" covers the entire region of the South.
