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The Bleeding Door

In 1868, the body of a young man, one of southern Appalachia's most feared and despised feudists, is found inside a deserted millhouse. Though the death of this violent man is welcome news to those who live in that region of southern Appalachia, few could imagine that long-ago events at a frontier Methodist academy in central Kentucky - as well as a succession of circuit riding preachers, a troubled Shaker village, as well as a mountain community plagued for decades by witches, ghosts, "haynts," and deadly clan warfare—all led up to the death of this reviled figure, Enoch Slone.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 260 pages

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