 | Legendary Connecticut: Traditional Tales from the Nutmeg State by David E. Philips
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $4.30 An excellent resource; the sections on Midnight Mary, Micah Rood's bloody apples, and Dudleytown aren't to be missed!
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 | Mysterious New England
Buy used from: $1.32 If you buy one book on this subject, buy this one. This book started my interest in New England's rich history.
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| New England's marvelous monsters by Robert Ellis Cahill
Not this volume, but this is the only one they had listed. Anything he's done for Old Saltbox Publishing is excellent. Especially the Strange Superstitions volume.
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 | Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors by Joseph A. Citro
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $2.75 This volume has some stories that all the other volumes don't cover.
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 | 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cookbook by Fannie Merritt Farmer
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.58 While not about the darker side of our history per se, I maintain everyone should have a copy of this for their kitchen.
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 | Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.75 Image and reality are not, in fact, very similar.
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 | Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath by John Esposito
Buy used from: $4.67 Tragedy strikes a Massachusetts nightclub when a lightbulb ignites a paper palm-leaf covered ceiling.
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 | Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.94 Molasses claims lives. I'm serious.
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