Troy Taylor

Wicked Northern Illinois (eBook, ePUB)

The Dark Side of the Prairie State

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the secrets of Joliet Penitentiary to the ferocious gunfights between the Ku Klux Klan and the Shelton Gang, Troy Taylor takes the measure of the dishonest sweat and innocent blood poured into the prairies of Northern Illinois. Meet the "fallen angels" of Decatur''s red-light district, the Springfield counterfeiters who bungled stealing Lincoln''s bones and the Aurora man who propped up his porch with the heads of his wife and brother-in-law. And if you dare, eavesdrop on the chilling confession of a man who left a dancer''s corpse to the mercy of the railroad tracks: "So, I pat them on the cheek, call them sweet names, and kill them."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781614232209
• Artikelnr.: 38099225

Autorenporträt

Troy Taylor is an occultist, supernatural historian and the author of seventy-five books on ghosts, hauntings, history, crime and the unexplained in America. He is also the founder of the American Ghost Society and the owner of the Illinois and American Hauntings Tour companies. Taylor shares a birthday with one of his favorite authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, but instead of living in New York and Paris like Fitzgerald, Taylor grew up in Illinois. Raised on the prairies of the state, he developed an interest in "things that go bump in the night" at an early age. As a young man, he channeled that interest into developing ghost tours and writing about haunts in Chicago and Central Illinois. Troy and his wife, Haven, currently reside in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood.