"Vengeful ghosts, sea monsters, and America's most haunted lighthouse figure prominently in this collection of eerie in tales from the Old Line State. From the rugged Appalachian Mountains, to the metropolitan center of Baltimore, to the Atlantic Coast come a variety of stories and legends, including Dorchester County's Suicide Bridge, Fort McHenry's gruesome hanging ghosts, and a sea captain's widow whose sad wailing can still be heard coming from...

This book in its own unique way attempts to honor our county's bicentennial year by remembering and paying tribute to those men and women who, whether by birth or migration, called Allegany County home. Within these volumes are the doctors, lawyers, judges, politicians and merchants. We will meet the industrialists, businessmen, bankers, coal miners, educators, artists and architects. And yes, we have also included the "common folks" and children;...

The tumult and opulence of England's Regency era burst from the pages in this work of literary nonfiction by acclaimed author Carolly Erickson. When dementia forces King George III to vacate his throne, the kingdom slips into a decade marked with excess, scandal, and riots. King George has suffered bouts of mental instability before, but in 1810 he shows no signs of recovering. Public and government business halts as word of his condition leaks out....