by Aaron Mahnke
MISSING THE POINT
Juanita Rose Violini, Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored (San Francisco: Weiser Books, 2009), 136.
Ken Gerhard, “The Texas-Sized ‘Monster’ Bird That Created a Huge Flap Back in 1975,” San Antonio Current, January 20, 2012, sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2012/01/20/the-texas-sized-monster-bird-that-created-a-huge-flap-back-in-1975.
Mark A. Hall, Thunderbirds: America’s Living Legends of Giant Birds (New York: Cosimo, 2008), 89–91.
Pete Brook, “Inside the Eerie TNT Storage Bunkers of West Virginia,” Wired, March 31, 2014, wired.com/2014/03/joshua-dudley-greer-tnt-storage.
Loren Coleman, Mothman (New York: Paraview Press, 2002), 38–44.
Troy Taylor, “Gallipolis’s Mothman,” Weird US, n.d., weirdus.com/states/ohio/bizarre_beasts/mothman/index.php.
“The Black Bird of Chernobyl,” North Atlantic Blog, October 31, 2014, northatlanticblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/the-black-bird-of-chernobyl.
PASSING NOTES
Sean Alfano, “The Afterlife: Real or Imagined,” Sunday Morning, CBS News, October 30, 2005, cbsnews.com/news/the-afterlife-real-or-imagined/3.
“Dead Spiritualist Silent,” New York Times, February 8, 1921.
John J. Kucich, Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2004), 70–77.
E. H. Britten, Nineteenth Century Miracles (New York: William Britten, 1884), 459.
E. W. Capron, Modern Spiritualism (Boston: Marsh, 1855), 132–71.
Joseph A. Citro, Passing Strange (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996), 18–32.
Elisabeth Tilstra, “The Eerie Mystery of the Phelps Mansion Knockings,” The Line-Up, January 22, 2016, the-line-up.com/phelps-mansion.
Bela Black, “The Mystery of Phelps Mansion,” American Ghost Stories, February 3, 2015, americanghoststories.com/new-england-ghost-stories/the-mystery-of-phelps-mansion-stratford-connecticut.
THE BLOODY PIT
Cheri Reval, Haunted Massachusetts: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Bay State (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005), 5–7.
Michael Norman and Beth Scott, Historic Haunted America (New York: Macmillan, 2007), 157–60.
DINNER AT THE AFTERGLOW
Adam Woog, Haunted Washington: Uncanny Tales and Spooky Spots from the Upper Left-Hand Corner of the United States (Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2013), 112–16.
Richard Walker, Roche Harbor (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2009), 91–100.
HOMESTEAD
William Montell, Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 104–6.
David E. Philips, Legendary Connecticut (Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1984), 250.
ADRIFT
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Blue Adventure Book (London: Cassell, 1905), 320.
Philip Ross, “Oldest Shipwreck In Mediterranean Found? Ancient Phoenician Vessel Contains 2,700-Year-Old Artifacts,” International Business Times, August 25, 2014, ibtimes.com/oldest-shipwreck-mediterranean-found-ancient-phoenician-vessel-contains-2700-year-old-1668798.
Elwood Walter, “The Dangers of Sailing in High Latitudes,” The Ariel: A Literary Gazette, nos. 1–2 (1827): 130.
TAKE THE STAND
E. P. Evans, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (London: Heinemann, 1906), 143.
Katie Letcher Lyle, The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1986), 63.
Garry Rodgers, “How a Ghost’s Evidence Convicted a Murderer,” Huffington Post, February 2015, huffingtonpost.com/garry-rodgers/how-a-ghosts-evidence-con_b_9252062.html.
Troy Taylor, No Rest for the Wicked: History and Hauntings of American Crime and Unsolved Mysteries (Alton, IL: Whitechapel Productions, 2001).
THE DEVIL’S BEAT
“Earliest Music Instruments Found,” BBC News, May 25, 2012, bbc.com/news/science-environment-18196349.
Joseph Glanvil, Saducismus Triumphatus, or Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions: In Two Parts; The First Treating of Their Possibility; The Second of Their Real Existence (London: J. Collins and S. Lownds, 1681).
Michael Hunter, “New Light on the ‘Drummer of Tedworth’: Conflicting Narratives of Witchcraft in Restoration England,” Historical Research 78, no. 201 (2005): 311–53.
Michael Kernan, “The Talking Drums,” Smithsonian, June 2000, smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-talking-drums-29197334.
Harlan McKosato, “Drums: Heartbeat of Mother Earth,” Native Peoples Magazine, July/August 2009, nativepeoples.com/Native-Peoples/July-August-2009/Drums-Heartbeat-of-Mother-Earth.
MARY, MARY
“For 50 Years, Nuclear Bomb Lost in Watery Grave,” Weekend Edition Sunday, National Public Radio, February 3, 2008, npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18587608.
E. W. Stevens, The Watseka Wonder (Chicago: Religio-Philosophical Publishing House, 1887).
Brian Haughton, “Lurancy Vennum,” Mysterious People, 2003/2005, mysteriouspeople.com/Lurancy_Vennum.htm.
William James, The Principles of Psychology (New York: Holt, 1890), 397–99.
“Mary L. Binning,” MooseRoots, n.d., death-records.mooseroots.com/l/208166293/Mary-L-Binning.
THE LUMP
“The Bump in the Carpet,” Fairweather Lewis, April 25, 2010, fairweatherlewis.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/the-bump-in-the-carpet.
Dennis William Hauck, Haunted Places: The National Directory: Ghostly Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO Landings and Other Supernatural Locations (New York: Penguin Books, 2002), 200.
Joseph Citro, Passing Strange (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996), 278.
WRITE ME A LETTER
Diana Ross McCain, Mysteries and Legends of New England (Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2009), 98–107.
“A Few Words on an Unpopular Subject,” Hartford Daily Times, August 10, 1852.
THE BANK JOB
Mary Bolté, Haunted New England: A Devilish View of the Yankee Past (Riverside, CT: Chatham Press, 1972), 43–46.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK
Charles J. Jordan, Tales Told in the Shadows of the White Mountains (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2003), 18–22.
History of Penobscot County, Maine: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Cleveland: Williams, Chase and Co., 1882), 413.
POSSESSED
Elaine G. Breslaw, Witches of the Atlantic World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook (New York: New York University Press, 2000), 230–45.
Sam Behling, “The Possession of Elizabeth Knapp,” Ancestry.com, n.d., homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sam/knapp/elizabeth.html.
“Samuel Scripture,” Rjohara.net, n.d., rjohara.net/gen/scripture.
BY AARON MAHNKE
Destiny: A Fairy Tale
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THE WORLD OF LORE
Monstrous Creatures
AARON MAHNKE is the writer, host, and producer of Lore, as well as the author of a number of supernatural thrillers. He has a deep love of the mysterious and frightening that began with Unsolved Mysteries and The X-Files—a love that continues to this day. Basically, he’s a nerd for anything unexplainable or supernatural. Mahnke lives with his family in the historic North Shore area of Boston, the very heart of Lovecraft country and the epicenter of the Salem witch trials.
To inquire about booking Aaron Mahnke for a speaking engagement, please contact the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at [email protected].
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M. S. CORLEY is a professional illustrator and book cover designer fascinated by folklore,
the supernatural, and all things strange. Besides The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures, he has also created illustrations for Darkness There: Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings by Orrin Grey, and others. He haunts Central Oregon with his wife, daughter, son, and cat named Dinah.
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