The Book of Halloween
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Ruth Edna Kelley
United States
Ruth Edna Kelley was an American librarian and author. She is chiefly remembered for The Book of Hallowe'en (1919), the first book-length history of the holiday. Kelley was born in Massachusetts, the...
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