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Author : Brent Monahan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312262922
Presents a fictionalized diary in which schoolteacher Richard Powell tells the story of Tennessee's Bell Witch, a poltergeist that began harassing the family of John Bell in 1818 and is reported to have caused his death.
Author : Colin Dickey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Hannah Nordhaus
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062249234
“A haunting story about the long reach of the past.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’S Fresh Air “In this intriguing book, [Nordhaus] shares her journey to discover who her immigrant ancestor really was—and what strange alchemy made the idea of her linger long after she was gone.” —People La Posada—“place of rest”—was once a grand Santa Fe mansion. It belonged to Abraham and Julia Staab, who emigrated from Germany in the mid-nineteenth century. After they died, the house became a hotel. And in the 1970s, the hotel acquired a resident ghost—a sad, dark-eyed woman in a long gown. Strange things began to happen there: vases moved, glasses flew, blankets were ripped from beds. Julia Staab died in 1896—but her ghost, they say, lives on. In American Ghost, Julia’s great-great-granddaughter, Hannah Nordhaus, traces her ancestor’s transfiguration from nineteenth-century Jewish bride to modern phantom. Family diaries, photographs, and newspaper clippings take her on a riveting journey through three hundred years of German history and the American immigrant experience. With the help of historians, genealogists, family members, and ghost hunters, she weaves a masterful, moving story of fin-de-siècle Europe and pioneer life, villains and visionaries, medicine and spiritualism, imagination and truth, exploring how lives become legends, and what those legends tell us about who we are.
Author : Joel Martin,William J. Birnes
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781429940948
In the tradition of their Haunting of the Presidents, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes write The Haunting of America: From The Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini, the only book to tell the story of how paranormal events influenced and sometimes even drove political events. In a narrative retelling of American history that begins with the Salem Witch Trials of the seventeenth century, Martin and Birnes unearth the roots of America's fascination with the ghosts, goblins, and demons that possess our imaginations and nightmares. The authors examine the political history of the United States through the lens of the paranormal and investigate the spiritual events that inspired public policy: channelers and meduims who have advised presidents, UFOs that frightened the nation's military into launching nuclear bomber squadrons toward the Soviet Union, out-of-body experiencers deployed to gather sensitive intelligence on other countries, and even spirits summoned to communicate with living politicians. The Haunting of America is a thrilling exploration of the often unexpected influences of the paranormal on science, medicine, law, government, the military, psychology, theology, death and dying, spirituality, and pop culture. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Dale Bailey
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Troy Taylor
Publisher : Whitechapel Productions
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 189252399X
From the mediums of Spiritualism's golden age to the ghost hunters of the modern era, Taylor shines a light on the phantasms and frauds of the past, the first researchers who dared to investigate the unknown, and the stories and events that galvanized the pubic and created the paranormal field that we know today.
Author : Megan Cooley Peterson
Publisher : Real-Life Ghost Stories
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781543574777
Describes a poltergeist's tormenting of a Tennessee family in the nineteenth century by someone who identified herself as a witch named Kate Batts.
Author : Daniel Klaes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387412501
Author : Marvin Kalb,Deborah Kalb
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815724407
The United States had never lost a war—that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a "raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country." The legacy of this first defeat has haunted every president since, especially on the decision of whether to put "boots on the ground" and commit troops to war. In Haunting Legacy, the father-daughter journalist team of Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb presents a compelling, accessible, and hugely important history of presidential decisionmaking on one crucial issue: in light of the Vietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war? The sobering lesson of Vietnam is that the United States is not invincible—it can lose a war—and thus it must be more discriminating about the use of American power. Every president has faced the ghosts of Vietnam in his own way, though each has been wary of being sucked into another unpopular war. Ford (during the Mayaguez crisis) and both Bushes (Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan) deployed massive force, as if to say, "Vietnam, be damned." On the other hand, Carter, Clinton, and Reagan (to the surprise of many) acted with extreme caution, mindful of the Vietnam experience. Obama has also wrestled with the Vietnam legacy, using doses of American firepower in Libya while still engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan. The authors spent five years interviewing hundreds of officials from every post war administration and conducting extensive research in presidential libraries and archives, and they've produced insight and information never before published. Equal parts taut history, revealing biography, and cautionary tale, Haunting Legacy is must reading for anyone trying to understand the power of the past to influence war-and-peace decisions of the present, and of the future.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : FV Éditions
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791029902437
An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James.
Author : Brent Monahan,Solomon, Courtney,Rouleau, André,Milburn, Christopher
Publisher : Montréal : Alliance Atlantis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Feature films
ISBN : OCLC:801262729
Author : Rene L. Bergland
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611688719
Although spectral Indians appear with startling frequency in US literary works, until now the implications of describing them as ghosts have not been thoroughly investigated. In the first years of nationhood, Philip Freneau and Sarah Wentworth Morton peopled their works with Indian phantoms, as did Charles Brocken Brown, Washington Irving, Samuel Woodworth, Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, William Apess, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others who followed. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Native American ghosts figured prominently in speeches attributed to Chief Seattle, Black Elk, and Kicking Bear. Today, Stephen King and Leslie Marmon Silko plot best-selling novels around ghostly Indians and haunted Indian burial grounds. Rene L. Bergland argues that representing Indians as ghosts internalizes them as ghostly figures within the white imagination. Spectralization allows white Americans to construct a concept of American nationhood haunted by Native Americans, in which Indians become sharers in an idealized national imagination. However, the problems of spectralization are clear, since the discourse questions the very nationalism it constructs. Indians who are transformed into ghosts cannot be buried or evaded, and the specter of their forced disappearance haunts the American imagination. Indian ghosts personify national guilt and horror, as well as national pride and pleasure. Bergland tells the story of a terrifying and triumphant American aesthetic that repeatedly transforms horror into glory, national dishonor into national pride.
Author : W. K. McNeil
Publisher : august house
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0935304843
Collects Southern legends and folk tales about haunted houses, supernatural events, and the appearances of ghosts
Author : Brent Monahan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312363532
A novel based on the Bell Witch of Adams, Tennessee, a famous 19th century haunting. This is not an eyewitness account.
Author : Frank D. McSherry,Charles Gordon Waugh,Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034375514
These terrifying anthologies contain some of the best in American ghost stories. Each of the books was edited by master anthologists Frank D. McSherry Jr., Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg and includes stories from such great horror fiction writers as Ambrose Bierce, Isaac Asimov, Madeleine L'Engle, and Manly Wade Wellman.