America's Haunted Houses
Author: Hans Holzer
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780681411258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of 57 American ghost stories, told first hand by noted parapsychology expert, Hans Holzer.
Author: Hans Holzer
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780681411258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of 57 American ghost stories, told first hand by noted parapsychology expert, Hans Holzer.
Author: Colin Dickey
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1101980192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland 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.
Author: Michael Norman
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-09-18
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 1466805153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Continuing the success of the nationally acclaimed Haunted America, Historic Haunted America is a further investigation into North American ghost legends. This chilling collection documents yesterday's and today's most terrifying hauntings in the United States and Canada in more than seventy-five shocking stories! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Corinne May Botz
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Published: 2010-09-28
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1580932916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“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: Adam O. Davis
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 1946448672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Dale Bailey
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2011-06
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 029926873X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Matt Chandler
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1515795411
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes ghost sightings and hauntings in the United States.
Author: Dave Thompson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1495046001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(FAQ Pop Culture). Take a fast-paced survey of the ghosties, ghouls, and associated denizens of the country's haunted history with Haunted America FAQ . Tracing local ghost stories back to Native American legends and then forward through horror tales both ancient and modern, the book revisits some of the best known haunted locales, as well as some of the most obscure creepy places, in America. Delving deep into the cultural history of American hauntings, Haunted America FAQ includes chapters on ghostly books, movies, and television. Also included is an A-Z of reality-TV ghost hunts and a state-by-state gazetteer of haunted spots.
Author: Nancy Roberts
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tells the stories of haunted houses all across the U.S., and lists addresses, telephone numbers, and hours for those houses open to the public.