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301. E. Jackson St.
Muncie, IN 47305

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Located in Downtown Muncie, the historic Carnegie Library is a specialty library that houses the Local History & Genealogy collection. Carnegie Library also provides free public access computer use, free Wi-Fi, low-cost printing and copying, free programs on a variety of subjects, and community meeting space. Carnegie Library was built in 1902 and opened to the public in 1904. It has been in continuous use as a library since its opening and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Local History & Genealogy Collection Spotlight

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Witches, Wit, and a Werewolf

Jeanne B. Hardendorff adapts and retells eighteen tales of supernatural beings and events.

1. FROM THE LOOM OF THE DEAD adapted story from The Shape of Fear by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, 1898

2. THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT retold story from The Legends of Iceland by George E. J. Powell and Eirikr Magnusson, 1866

3. ON THE RIVER adapted story from Modern Ghosts by Guy de Maupassant, 1890

4. VENGEANCE WILL COME retold story from Syfaddon Lake from The Welsh Fairy Book by W. Jenkyn Thomas, 1908

5. THE QUESTIONING GHOST retold story from The Deserterer from Tales of Wonder by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1909

6. STRIKING A CORPSE CANDLE retold story from The Welsh Fairy Book by W. Jenkyn Thomas, 1908

7. THE STRANGLING WOMAN created from an anecdote found in Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book, 1944

8. AN IMPERFECT CONFLAGRATION story from Collected Works by Ambrose Bierce, 1909

9. THE LITTLE TOE BONE retold story from Hindu Tales by Terese Peirce Williston, 1917

10.FEAR adapted story from The Works of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, 1908

11.THE GRAMMATICAL GHOST adapted story from The Shape of Fear by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, 1898

12.THE POWER OF ST. TEGLA’S WELL retold story from The Welsh Fairy Book by W. Jenkyn Thomas, 1908

13.THE WITCH AT FRADDAM retold story from The Lord of Pengerswick from Popular Romances of the West of England by Robert Hunt, 1871

14.A WEREWOLF OR A THIEF? retold story from The Thief and the Innkeeper by Aesop

15.CAPTAIN MURDERER story from The Uncommercial Traveler by Charles Dickens, 1861

16.RAP! RAP! RAP! based on a story heard at Camp Conoy, Lusby, Maryland, United States by Eric Hardendorff, source unknown

17.THE BLOOD-DRAWING GHOST retold story from Tales of the Fairies and The Ghost World by Jeremiah Curtin, 1895

18.THE THREE SHEEP story from The Spider’s Palace by Richard Hughes, 1932