title: Ghosts of Old Louisville: True Stories of Hauntings in America's Largest Victorian Neighborhood
author: David Domine
description: "...eerie and enchanting." -- <i>bookclub@ket, October 2006</i><br /><br />"Domin's book is a well-deserved and long-needed addition to the storied history of...the country's most remarkable Victorian neighborhood." -- <i>The Courier-Journal, June 26, 2005</i><br /><br />"His beautiful writing, rich with architectural knowledge and crisp details, sends the reader far back into the Victorian era..." -- <i>Louisville Eccentric Observer, October 26, 2005</i><br /><br />"[His] time-consuming detective work pays off handsomely..." -- <i>Janet Brennan, Mysteries Magazine, Issue 12</i><br /><br />"...well written and interesting book about a unique neighborhood." -- <i>Haunted Travels, October 31, 2005</i>
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  # A Fruitless Assignment
  
  
  ### Ambrose Bierce
  
  
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  Henry Saylor, who was killed in Covington, in a quarrel with
  
  
  Antonio Finch, was a reporter on the Cincinnati Commercial. In the
  
  
  year 1859 a vacant dwelling in Vine street, in Cincinnati, became the
  
  
  center of a local excitement because of the strange sights and sounds
  
  
  said to be observed in it nightly. According to the testimony of many
  
  
  reputable residents of the vicinity these were inconsistent with any
  
  
  other hypothesis than that the house was haunted. Figures with
  
  
  something singularly unfamiliar about them were seen by crowds on the
  
  
  sidewalk to pass in and out. No one could say just where they appeared
  
  
  upon the open lawn on their way to the front door by which they
  
  
  entered, nor at exactly what point they vanished as they came out; or,
  
  
  rather, while e