Stranger Than Fiction: The Lincoln Curse (Volume 1)

    Stranger Than Fiction: The Lincoln Curse is a revised edition consisting of 50 stories that prove, in the words of Mark Twain, sometimes truth can be stranger than fiction. According to Southern lore, a dying Confederate, versed in the dark arts, placed a curse on the Lincoln family and the Federal government. Soon afterwards Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and calamity befell everyone who assisted or abetted the Lincoln family. In the next 98 years three more American presidents were assassinated. Each time an American president has been murdered, he was in the company of a member of the Lincoln family.
    Mary Lincoln was with her husband the night he was shot. Robert Lincoln was in the company of President Garfield when he was gunned down. The same Robert Lincoln was in the company of President McKinley when he was felled by an assassin's bullet. Evelyn Lincoln, personal secretary of President Kennedy, was near the president when he was slain. Curse or coincidence? Either way it proves truth can be stranger than fiction.
   Read about how medical bungling killed President Washington who was accidentally bled to death and marvel at the antiquated medical procedures that prompted one doctor to propose resurrecting Washington shortly after he died.
   Read how President Garfield died as a result of medical bungling. Why did a Japanese soldier go on fighting World War II for 29 years after it had ended?
   Examine the photo of Abraham Lincoln's ghost taken by a spirit photographer and decide for yourself is it authentic or a hoax?
   Muse at the antics of love starved sailors who almost took their ship apart and attempted to set sail in the dilapidated vessel to gain the affections of several island women.
   Read about the origins of the custom of awarding presidential pardons to turkies. Read about the deadly wolf peach and how it became a part of the American diet.
   You'll be intrigued by the bizzare deaths of several prominent people including a well known detective who died from biting his tongue.
   Learn of General Custer's lost treasure and of the American president who once gave a press conference in the nude.
   Who was the queen whose corpse was coronoted after she died?
   Why was an elephant publicly executed in Tennessee?
   Read about the wayward outlaw who was given the nickname "The stupidest outlaw in the west."
    Read about the outlaw who started a movie career than spanned several decades after he was shot to death.
   You'll be mystified at Mark Twain's premonition of his brother's death. One that came eerily true. Imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning and read your own obituary in the paper. It happened to Mark Twain.
   These and many other stories will leave the reader convinced that perhaps Twain was right when he said "truth is stranger than fiction."