Explore the Haunted World of Author Jannette Quackenbush

Jannette Quackenbush is the author of more than 50 books exploring American ghost stories, folklore, cryptids, and hiking trails — including the Haunted Ohio, Haunted West Virginia, and Haunted Pennsylvania series. Her works combine historical research with Appalachian storytelling traditions, uncovering the true origins of the region’s most enduring legends.


Books by Jannette Quackenbush

Haunted Ohio Ghosts

  • Haunted Ohio Unearthed: Real Ghost Stories from the Shadows of the Buckeye State 11 — 978-1-940087-75-7
  • Haunted Hocking: Ghost Ghost Hunter Guide of the Hocking Hills and Beyond 1— 978-1-940087-04-7
  • Haunted Hocking: Ghost Stories of the Hocking Hills and Beyond — 978-1-940087-50-4
  • Haunted Hocking Hills 1 — 978-1-940087-23-8
  • Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide 2: Ghost Stories. Haunted Hikes — 978-1-940087-05-4
  • Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide 3: A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Ohio — 978-1-940087-06-1
  • Columbus Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide 4— 978-1-940087-07-8
  • Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide 5 — 978-1-940087-08-5
  • Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide 6 — 978-1-940087-09-2
  • Cleveland Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide: Haunted Cleveland and Cuyahoga County and Vicinity — 7  978-1-940087-10-8
  • Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide 8: Ohio Ghost Stories, Haunts and Legends — 978-1-940087-11-5
  • Ohio Ghost Stories and Spooky Legends: The Classics 9— 978-1-940087-44-3
  • Cincinnati Ghost Stories, Legends, and Haunts — 978-1-940087-55-9
  • Haunted Hocking Hills for Kids: Ghost Stories from Ohio’s Hocking Hills for Kids — 978-1-940087-12-2
  • Vinton County Legends and Ghosts — 978-1-940087-30-6
  • Little Book of Marietta Ghost Stories: Ohio Ghosts, Folklore, and Legends — 978-1-940087-40-5
  • Little Book of Ghosts and Monsters in the Hocking Hills — 978-1-940087-47-4
  • Haunted Ohio Hiking Trails with Ghost Stories — 978-1-940087-60-3
  • Haunted Ohio: Ghost Stories 10 — 978-1-940087-67-2

Moonville, Ohio Ghosts

  • Moonville: Its Past. Its Ghosts. Its Legends — 978-1-940087-28-3
  • Moonville Ghost Stories and Haunts along the Railway — 978-1-940087-61-0
  • Moonville Whispers: Unearthing Ghosts along the Haunted Hocking Hills Rail Trail — 978-1-940087-74-0

Haunted West Virginia Ghosts

  • West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, and Haunts Book 1 — 978-1-940087-25-2
  • West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, and Haunts Book 1 — 978-1940087252
  • West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, and Haunts Book 1 Kindle— 978-1-940087-27-6
  • West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore Book 2 — 978-1-940087-31-3
  • West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics Book 3 — 978-1-940087-45-0
  • When the Dead Walk in West Virginia: Scary Stories and Creepy Folk Tales to Keep You Up at Night Book 4 — 978-1-940087-72-6
  • Haunted West Virginia: More Scary Ghost Stories and Creepy Folk Tales to Keep You Up at Night Book 5 — 978-1-940087-73-3

Haunted Pennsylvania Ghost Stories

  • Little Book of Gettysburg Ghosts Book 1 — 978-1-940087-42-9
  • Little Book of Gettysburg Ghosts Book 1 — 978-1-940087-54-2
  • Pennsylvania Ghosts and Haunts: West Pennsylvania — 978-1-940087-43-6
  • Haunted Pennsylvania: True Ghost Stories and Legends of the Keystone State — 978-1-940087-77-1

Cryptids and Monsters

  • Monsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts: West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland and Beyond, and Where to Find Them Book 1 — 978-1-940087-36-8
  • Monsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts: West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland and Beyond, and Where to Find Them Book 1 — 978-1-940087-37-5
  • Monsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts: West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland and Beyond, and Where to Find Them Book 1 — 978-1-940087-38-2
  • Field Guide to Monsters: Of Ohio and West Virginia Book 1 — 978-1-940087-39-9
  • Cryptids of the Appalachian Heartland: A Little Field Guide to the Mysterious Creatures of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania Book 1 — 978-1-940087-76-4
  • Ohio’s Monsters and Mysterious Beasts Book 1 — 978-1-940087-64-1

Big Book of American Cryptids/Monsters

  • Big Book of American Cryptids: 50 States of Monsters and Legends — 978-1-940087-69-6

Haunted New Orleans Ghost Stories

  • Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans — 978-1-940087-46-7
  • Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans — 978-1-940087-53-5

Haunted Hiking Trails and Ghosts

  • Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollers: Hiking Trails with Ghost Stories, Legends, and Folktales Book 1 — 978-1-940087-51-1
  • Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollers: Hiking Trails with Ghost Stories, Legends, and Folktales Book 1 — 978-1-940087-99-3
  • Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills & Hollers 2: Hiking Trails Legends, Ghost Stories, and Abandoned Places Book 2 — 978-1-940087-59-7

Ohio Hiking Trails

  • Ohio Hiking Trails: The Adventurer’s Guide to Ohio’s Best Hiking Trails to Explore. Some Little-Known. a Few Much Traveled. All Unique — 978-1-940087-57-3
  • Hocking Hills Hiking Trails: A Guide to Hiking Trails of the Hocking Hills — 978-1-940087-58-0
  • Hocking Hills Hiking Trails: A Guide to Hiking Trails of the Hocking Hills — 978-1-940087-62-7

Haunted America Ghost Stories

  • Big Book of American Ghost Stories — 978-1-940087-68-9
  • Ghoulies and Ghosties and Long-Leggedy Beasties: And Things That Go Bump in the Night — 978-1-940087-70-2
  • The Big Book of Things That Go Bump in the Night — 978-1-940087-71-9

Fiction Books by Shay Lawless/Jannette Quackenbush

  • Lost Children of the Casquette Girls: A Story of the Fille à la Cassettes Book 1 — 978-1-940087-63-4
  • Lost Children of the Casquette Girls: A Story of the Fille à la Cassettes Book 1 — 978-1-940087-65-8
  • Lost Children of the Casquette Girls: A Story of the Fille à la Cassettes Book 1 Digital — 978-1-940087-66-5
  • The Redneck Run (Book 1) — 978-1-940087-14-6
  • Ghost Town – A Fairy Tale — 978-1-940087-15-3
  • The Monster Collector — 978-1-940087-16-0
  • Dead Broke Hearts — 978-1-940087-17-7
  • Whiskey Tango: A Romantic Suspense — 978-1-940087-18-4
  • Dead Broke Hearts — Digital 978-1-940087-19-1
  • Dark Pines — 978-1-940087-20-7
  • Dark Pines digital— 978-1-940087-41-2
  • Whiskey Tango — Digital 978-1-940087-21-4
  • Lost Hollow — 978-1-940087-29-0
  • The Boney Dump — 978-1-940087-33-7
  • Redneck Run II: Shine (Book 2) — 978-1-940087-34-4
  • Redneck Run II: Shine (Book 2) — digital 978-1-940087-35-1
  • The Secret Life of Rosie Mauer, Wallflower (Book 1) digital — 978-1-940087-24-5
  • The Secret Life of Rosie Mauer, Wallflower (Book 1) — 978-1-940087-26-9
  • The Dance Card: 978-1940087139