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Weird Civil War delves into the peculiar history and ghastly legacy of the bloodiest period in American history, featuring the era's most gripping tragic tales, fascinating facts, spooky scenarios, and eccentric characters. This brand-new volume-which compiles the most compelling Civil War stories from the bestselling Weird series-will excite precocious history students, Civil War buffs, and the multitude of Americans-young and old-with historical...

Scarier and stranger than any multiplex horror movie, Weird Encounters features more than 75 supernatural stories contributed by writers from across the country. This chilling anthology tells of "Historic Haunts," and "Hostel Environments" and conjures up a host of phantasms, paranormal pranksters, and devilishly destructive spirits - like the deceased owner of an Illinois inn whose ghost gets fresh with his female patrons and the bridge in Mississippi...