William M Cullen – författare

A History of Moonville, Ohio and a Collection of its Haunting Tales is a rich and detailed account of a haunted bygone mining town that once flourished in the backwoods of Ohios southeastern region. Mooville flourished during Ohios golden age of railroad expansion in the years before the start of the Civil War,founded by a man with a dream.Then, as Moonville began drifting into Ohios collective history its paranormal activity picked up, adding to Ohios already rich and colorful collection of haunting tales.

Horror strikes in one of Ohios remotest locations! Five close friends, who are Ohio State freshmen, take an afternoon to visit an old abandoned railroad tunnel, known as the the Moonville Tunnel, to do a class preservation project; plus to have a little fun of their own. Once at Moonville they look about the place, marvelling at what is left. Soon, after they have their work done, they find out that one of their friends has an old family enemy, an evil spirit that is out for revenge for what her ancestor had done to him because of love!

A History of Moonville, Ohio and a Collection of its Haunting Tales, Revised Edition, is an updated version of a previous work the author had published back in 2008. This revised edition contains more detailed history about Moonville and its surrounding towns, such as Zaleski, on how they came to be, most notably that Moonville was named by the railroad after a general store proprietor rather than the man who had actually founded the town; and that Zaleski was named after a Polish/French financier who never came to America to see his namesake town. This revised edition also contains more haunting tales of what had happened to some of those who had lived and worked in this remote mining town in eastern Vinton County, Ohio, mainly covering those who had been involved in train accidents surrounding the still-standing tunnel as these trains came barreling through the area; plus, there are a few tales of murder as well. There are also a few light-hearted tales most notably that of a well-known English author who had passed through Moonville on his way to tour America back in the late 1860s as well as a story about some feisty sisters, in Athens, who took on the expanding railroad.There are human interest elements in all of this, most notably to me, is the story of the Dexters who had been enslaved in Virginia, escaping in the 1860s, having made their way to Moonville in order to live out their lives in freedom. This book is about preserving the history of a mining town that began back in the 1850s, thriving for nearly fifty years, before it began its long slide into history, though not completely forgotten, for it had been, once, a vital part of Ohios history, especially in the days leading up to the American Civil War; and that is why I wrote and revised this work - for Moonvilles history is a part of Ohios history.

1725 London: A young Benjamin Franklin who, having been stranded in this city, uncovers a heinous scheme of murder against the children of this city! Franklin, along with his trusted friends a wise beyond his years apprentice by the name of Wygate, a seasoned printer by the name of John Trundle as well as the new found love of his life, a raven-hair beauty by the name of Vyola Wyck work with the ladies of Hyde Park in a scheme that will - hopefully allow them to capture this most horrible of fiends; thus, putting a stop to his reign of inconceivable treachery before another child falls prey to his dark deeds!