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HAUNTED HOOSIER TRAILS
A GUIDE TO INDIANA’S FAMOUS FOLKLORE SPOOKY SITES
By Wanda Lou Willis
Nothing is more spooky than the mysteries that happen right in your own backyard. HAUNTED HOOSIER TRAILS ($15.95, Guild Press/ Emmis Books) is a collection of spooky tales and real-life horror stories that doubles as a Halloween travel guide. Readers can use original maps, photos and illustrations and take their families on autumn tours through the beautiful Indiana countryside to haunted hotels and houses, deserted bridges, eerie lakes and other sites of hauntings and tragedies.
The carefully researched and truly scary tales by one of Indiana’s most respected folklorist’s will chill and thrill even the most skeptical reader. HAUNTED HOOSIER TRAILS is a frighteningly good read.
Wanda Lou Willis is a folklore historian who specializes in Hoosier folktales and historic research. She is a feature writer for the Indianapolis Star’s “Seniority Counts” section and regularly appears on Fox 59 Early Morning show. She has taught folklore for many years at IUPUI and is a popular presenter at schools, universities, libraries and historical societies. She is a fifth generation Hoosier and lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
HAUNTED HOOSIER TRAILS
By Wanda Lou Willis
Guild Press/Emmis Books ● October 2003 ● $15.95
Paperback ● 180 pages ● ISBN 1-57860-115-0
Emmis Books, a division of Emmis Communications, aims to become the premier publisher in the Midwest. Founded in 2003 in Cincinnati, Ohio.