Ghosts across Kentucky

Pour yourself a cup of brew, sit back in your easy chair and enjoy getting a few homegrown chills down your spine with Montell's book.

~(Hopkinsville) Kentucky New Era

It is a delightful book and is both entertaining and a stunning revelation of generations of stories that will introduce you to some very frightening creatures of the night.

~Bourbon Times

Offers a valuable glimpse of rural society in an era when storytelling was a vital part of daily life.

~Cincinnati Enquirer

Spans the spectrum of hauntings, including the predictable tales of graveyard ghosts, unusual stories of animal ghosts, and an unexpected touch of the contemporary in 'Haunted Dorms, Fraternities, and Sororities.'

~Filson Club History Quarterly

Guaranteed to chill the bones of even the most skeptical, or at least tickle them.

~Kentucky Monthly

Next time the wind starts to blow, turn off the lights and the television, gather the kids around the fireplace and read these stories aloud.

~Lexington Herald-Leader

For those who love the unreal and revel in a good scare, this is the ideal bedside table book.... It's positively spooky.

~Louisville Courier-Journal

280 stories from across the Bluegrass State—reports of phantom workmen, fallen soldiers, young lovers and executed criminals as well as tales of graveyards, haunted dormitories and vanishing hitchhikers.

~Publishers Weekly

A lively, fascinating opening of the doorway into one aspect of the folk underworld.

~Ray Browne