A Haunted Land

Author : Monica Black
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250225665

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A Demon-Haunted Land by Monica Black Pdf

“A Demon-Haunted Land is absorbing, gripping, and utterly fascinating... Beautifully written, without even a hint of jargon or pretension, it casts a significant and unexpected new light on the early phase of the Federal Republic of Germany’s history. Black’s analysis of the copious, largely unknown archival sources on which the book is based is unfailingly subtle and intelligent.” —Richard J. Evans, The New Republic In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault, and even murder. What linked these events, in the wake of an annihilationist war and the Holocaust, was a widespread preoccupation with evil. While many histories emphasize Germany’s rapid transition from genocidal dictatorship to liberal democracy, A Demon-Haunted Land places in full view the toxic mistrust, profound bitterness, and spiritual malaise that unfolded alongside the economic miracle. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, acclaimed historian Monica Black argues that the surge of supernatural obsessions stemmed from the unspoken guilt and shame of a nation remarkably silent about what was euphemistically called “the most recent past.” This shadow history irrevocably changes our view of postwar Germany, revealing the country’s fraught emotional life, deep moral disquiet, and the cost of trying to bury a horrific legacy.

Author : Bob Curran
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 0862788595

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A Haunted Land by Bob Curran Pdf

The spirits of the dead return in many shapes and in many locations in Ireland. There are the wraith-like ghosts and the full-bodied type, the dangerous and damaging, the threatening and the merely frightening. There are notorious buildings where down through the centuries spectres have been seen or heard, some, such as Leap Castle, where psychics have been overwhelmed by the intensity of the atmosphere. There are families pursued by spirits who warn them of impending death or seem to be trying to get back at them for some long-forgotten wrongdoing. Here are stories and details of the amazing variety of hauntings to be experienced throughout the country.

Author : Tina Rosenberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307773586

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The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg Pdf

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe

Author : Erin Hart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743254526

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Haunted Ground by Erin Hart Pdf

The dazzling, award-winning debut in a series that delivers mystery, romance, suspense, and fascinating forensic detail. When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery—the perfectly preserved head of a young woman with long red hair—Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence. Because the bog’s watery, acidic environment prevents decay, it’s difficult to tell how long the red-haired girl has been buried—two years, two centuries, or even much longer. Who is she? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. The red-haired girl is not the only enigma in this remote corner of Galway. Two years earlier, Mina Osborne, the wife of a local landowner, went for a walk with her young son and vanished without a trace. Could they, too, be hidden in the bog’s treacherous depths, only to be discovered centuries from now? Or did Hugh Osborne murder his family, as some villagers suspect? Bracklyn House, Osborne’s stately home, holds many secrets, and Nora and Cormac's inquiries threaten to expose them all.

Author : Sarah Gilbreath Ford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496829719

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Haunted Property by Sarah Gilbreath Ford Pdf

Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize At the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such as ghosts and haunted houses, to portray the horrors of this nightmare. Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic thus reimagines the southern gothic, which has too often been simply equated with the macabre or grotesque and then dismissed as regional. Although literary critics have argued that the American gothic is driven by the nation’s history of racial injustice, what is missing in this critical conversation is the key role of property. Ford argues that out of all of slavery’s perils, the definition of people as property is the central impetus for haunting because it allows the perpetration of all other terrors. Property becomes the engine for the white accumulation of wealth and power fueled by the destruction of black personhood. Specters often linger, however, to claim title, and Ford argues that haunting can be a bid for property ownership. Through examining works by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Sherley Anne Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey, Ford reveals how writers can use the gothic to combat legal possession with spectral possession.

Author : Amos Elon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:02000549

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Journey Through a Haunted Land by Amos Elon Pdf

Author : Colin Dickey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101980217

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Ghostland by Colin Dickey Pdf

One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016 “A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our history. Colin Dickey is on the trail of America’s ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and “zombie homes,” Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. Some have established reputations as “the most haunted mansion in America,” or “the most haunted prison”; others, like the haunted Indian burial grounds in West Virginia, evoke memories from the past our collective nation tries to forget. With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living—how do we, the living, deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed, for whatever reason, haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story, but also to the ways in which changes to those facts are made—and why those changes are made—Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of things left undone, crimes left unsolved. Spellbinding, scary, and wickedly insightful, Ghostland discovers the past we’re most afraid to speak of aloud in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.

Author : Robert Swindells
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141928852

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Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells Pdf

An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. Danny not only has to cope in a world of lawlessness and gang warfare, but he has to protect and look after his little brother, Ben, and a girl called Kim. Is there any hope left for a new world?

Author : Randolph Stow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:39000003100059

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A Haunted Land by Randolph Stow Pdf

Author : Dr. Robert Curran
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781847175069

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A Haunted Land by Dr. Robert Curran Pdf

The spirits of the dead return in many shapes and in many locations in Ireland. There are the wraith-like ghosts and the full-bodied type, the dangerous and damaging, the threatening and the merely frightening. There are notorious buildings where down through the centuries spectres have been seen or heard, some, such as Leap Castle, where psychics have been overwhelmed by the intensity of the atmosphere. There are families pursued by spirits who warn them of impending death or seem to be trying to get back at them for some long-forgotten wrongdoing. Here are stories and details of the amazing variety of hauntings to be experienced throughout the country.

Author : Jackie Ray Holton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781491722534

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My Haunted Land by Jackie Ray Holton Pdf

There are many things in this world that happen. Some of them are unexplained. For the past thirty-nine years, my family and I have witnessed uncountable paranormal activities in several homes that were built on my land. All in which remain unexplained. So I decided to write most of these things down and share these experiences with the rest of the world. I used to be a very skeptical man. But after living through and experiencing the frightening things that are written in this book, I now know that these type of things are very real and are still happening to this present day.

Author : Nancy Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:41012572

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This Haunted Land by Nancy Roberts Pdf

Author : Joel A. Sutherland
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781443187527

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Haunted Canada 11: Frightening True Tales by Joel A. Sutherland Pdf

The eleventh book in the bestselling series of hauntingly true Canadian stories — more chilling than ever! In this terrifying collection of haunted stories, author Joel A. Sutherland has put together even more chilling ghost stories from all across our spooky land, including: A hateful house torments a new bride in Victoria, British Columbia. The chime of an old clock makes a grim prediction for a family in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The sound of mysterious footsteps signals the presence of spirits at a fire hall in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. Moody black-and-white illustrations and photographs enhance the hauntingly eerie read. With its first volume published in 2002, the Haunted Canada series is now an award winning series with over 500,000 copies in print. Kids can’t get enough of these spooky tales that allow them to learn about the eeriest corners of our country. “Joel A. Sutherland is quickly becoming Canada’s answer to R.L. Stine.” — QUILL & QUIRE

Author : Bentley Little
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101580189

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The Haunted by Bentley Little Pdf

With his “ability to disgust (and delight) even the most seasoned horror enthusiast” (Publishers Weekly), Bentley Little conjures up your greatest fears as he dares you to spend a night with the haunted.... Julian and Claire Perry and their two children, Megan and James, have made the move to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district. But something isn't right. The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what he's seen in the corner of the basement, staring at him and shuffling closer ever so slowly. Pity no one warned the family about the house. Now it's too late. Because the darkness at the bottom of the stairs is rising....

Author : Dorah L. Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781770701113

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Haunted by Dorah L. Williams Pdf

It was an irrational decision. Despite having just moved into a beautiful new house, the Williams family gave in to an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase and move into a Victorian home they had come upon by chance. They were curious, of course, as to why the house had, in the past, had such a high vacancy rate - no one ever seemed to live in it for a long period of time. But that curiosity didn’t last long, because shortly after moving in, strange things began to happen. It became abundantly clear that the home’s past owners had all had a reason for leaving: fear. The Williams’ new home was haunted. At first, the family tried telling themselves there were logical explanations for the strange things they all were witnessing. But before long they came to accept the fact that they were sharing their home with ghosts. Haunted is the Williams family’s story from the point of view of the mother, Dorah. Through her chilling reminiscences, we witness the all-too-real goings-on in the house. And we join the family as they seek a way to bring an end to the paranormal events that were occurring with ever more frequency and intensity, and learn why the events began in the first place.