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Author : Hans Holzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0681411252
Collection of 57 American ghost stories, told first hand by noted parapsychology expert, Hans Holzer.
Author : Hans Holzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 0385172133
Author : Colin Dickey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101980217
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 : Charles A. Coulombe
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1592284159
A unique travel book introduces readers to various haunted public spaces--hotels, historic homes, restaurants, and other locales across the country that are reputed to be plagued by restless spirits. Original.
Author : Dale Bailey
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299268732
When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition that has assumed a lasting role in American culture. “The House of Usher” and its literary progeny have not lacked for tenants in the century and a half since: writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Stephen King have taken rooms in the haunted houses of American fiction. Dale Bailey traces the haunted house tale from its origins in English gothic fiction to the paperback potboilers of the present, highlighting the unique significance of the house in the domestic, economic, and social ideologies of our nation. The author concludes that the haunted house has become a powerful and profoundly subversive symbol of everything that has gone nightmarishly awry in the American Dream.
Author : Dave Thompson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781495046018
HAUNTED AMERICA FAQ: ALL THATS LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE MOST HAUNTED HOUSES CEMETERIES
Author : The Editors of LIFE
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781547845569
Life Magazine presents The World's Most Haunted Places.
Author : Adam O. Davis
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781946448675
This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet we gradually become aware of their presence the way spirits in haunted houses trod over creaky floors, slam doors, and issue sudden gusts of wind. The poems are Koan-like—the fewer the words, the more charged they are. The engine driving this sense of haunting and loss is money, which Davis describes as “federal bone” boiling around us. Bison in Nebraska are reduced to bones, “seven/standing men/tall” fodder for the fertilizer used by farmers in the 1800s. Though they often specify dates, there’s an equality to the hauntings—every instance has its moment, and persists, despite being in the past, present, or future. If there really was a 1980 or 1848 or 1499, Davis implies it is somewhere. Index of Haunted Houses is spooky and sad—a stunning debut, one that will surprise, convince, and most of all, delight.
Author : Michael Ferut
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612119434
Secret passageways, stairways to the ceiling, and doors that open to walls. The Winchester Mystery House is full of tricks and traps. The heiress of the Winchester Rifle fortune built the house to confuse the ghosts that haunted her. Young readers will be amazed to discover how long she worked to escape her ghosts in this eerie title.
Author : Matt Chandler,Suzanne Garbe
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 9781515795414
Describes ghost sightings and hauntings in the United States.
Author : Corinne May Botz
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781580932912
“When I was between the ages of five and eight, my sister and I slept in a large attic bedroom. At nightfall the room was filled with gypsies who glided around in clusters. They wore colorful thin flowing dresses and rummaged greedily through my drawers and books as if they would steal everything. I lay in bed as stiff as a board, trying to will myself invisible, praying they would not notice me looking . . . Daylight obliterated the gypsies, rendering them as thoroughly insubstantial as they had been real in the dark. I had a vague understanding that my vision was private, so I never told my family what I saw.” So began Corinne May Botz’s fascination with the invisible, a phenomenon that has profoundly influenced her approach to photography in style and subject matter. For more than ten years, she searched for ghost stories in buildings across the United States. She ventured into these haunted places with both camera and tape recorder in hand; her photographs, accompanied by first-person narratives, reveal a rare glimpse into American interiors, both physical and psychological. This book includes more than eighty haunted buildings, from the legendary to the ordinary, including Edgar Allan Poe’s house in Baltimore, a New Jersey tavern, and a Massachusetts farmhouse, a log cabin in Kentucky, and a number of private residences. The text includes ghost stories told to the author by those who lived through the moving rugs, creaking floors, apparitions, disappearing—and reappearing—objects, cries in the night, mysteriously burning candles, and other unexplained occurrences.
Author : Michael Norman,Beth Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781466805149
Haunted America takes you on a grand tour of ghostly hauntings through the U.S. and Canada, sweeping from terrifying battle-field specters at Little Bighorn to a vaudeville palace in Tampa, from ghostly apparitions in President Garfield's home in Ohio to the White House in Washington, DC. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Patrick Perish
Publisher : Unexplained: What's the Eviden
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1607533855
Presents famous haunted houses such as the Borley Rectory, the White House, and the Amityville horror, and briefly examines the claims, some of which have no scientific explanation and some of which were hoaxes.
Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628469011
Before Alan Brown wrote Haunted Places in the American South, only the locals knew what was lurking in these locations. Slamming doors, eerie lights, and Confederate soldiers' ghosts kept some folks too scared to talk with outsiders. Above Peavey Melody Music in Meridian, Mississippi, children may be heard giggling and running down an abandoned hallway that turns icy cold. At the Jameson Inn in Crestview, Florida, an apparition appears on surveillance tapes after filling the lobby with sweet-smelling cigar smoke. Seldom told and rarely—if ever—printed stories such as these join tales from haunted inns, mansions, forests, ravines, and prisons to create Haunted Places in the American South. The book collects ghost stories from fifty-five historically haunted sites in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Alan Brown gathered these stories from newspapers, magazines, museum directors, archaeologists, hotel managers, and many others who shared their disturbing experiences. Most of these stories have never appeared in book form, and some, such as the haunting of Peavey Melody Music, have never been published at all. Haunted Places in the American South differs from most other collections of southern ghost stories, for the featured sites include more than just haunted houses. Bridges, forts, governors' mansions, prisons, hotels, woods, theaters, cemeteries, and even a large rock are included as focal points for these tales. The book provides directions to the sites, notes, and a bibliography that will be useful to folklore scholars and to travelers seeking that cold and creepy brush with the supernatural.
Author : Jay Anson
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781982138264
“A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times)—the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property—complete with boathouse and swimming pool—and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror. This is the spellbinding, shocking true story that gripped the nation about an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining—“this book will scare the hell out of you” (Kansas City Star).