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Haunted Subjectsby Colin Davis
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 90.00Why do the dead return? Are the dead lost to us for ever, or do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they persistently emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and in the works of thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and the psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. more...
Ghost Chroniclesby Maureen Wood
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2009; US$ 14.99Journey into a world of the unexplained and the unknown, a world where what you can't see captivates all your attention. A trance medium and a paranormal scientist team up in this spellbinding collection of 17 supernatural mysteries, a mere sampling of the spooky episodes in their vast ghost hunting case files. more...
Ghosthunting Illinoisby John Kachuba
Menasha Ridge Press 2005; US$ 13.95Lock the doors, draw the curtains, and light a candle as you join John Kachuba on a guided tour of Illinois's most terrifying haunted places. Your hair-raising journey will take you to: - Old State Capital, Springfield Lincoln lay in state here before his burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Could his ghost haunt the spot where his body lay? - Harpo Studios, Chicago When the Eastland steamer capsized in 1915, the building served as a temporary morgue. Oprahs employees have encountered the ghosts of the victims, including the Gray Lady who floats through the halls. - And many more scary sites. Maps and travel information are provided to every haunted location for those brave enough to make the journey in person. more...
Ghosthunting Ohioby John Kachuba
Menasha Ridge Press 2004; US$ 13.95Whether you believe in ghosts or other aspects of the paranormal, every culture has its folklore and many, many people have had an experience they simply cant explain. John Kachuba decided to investigate for himself, so he started with his home state of Ohio. Ghosthunting Ohio, examines more than 30 of the spookiest haunts, from cemeteries to inns and taverns to libraries and cafes, all over the Buckeye State. The results might surprise even the most devout skeptics. There are experiences that defy logic, science, and technology, strange occurrences for which we have no explanation. I cannot explain the whitish orbs that appeared in some photos I took in buildings said to be haunted. I cannot explain the feelings of negative energy... more...
Haunted Hallsby Elizabeth Tucker
University Press of Mississippi 2007; US$ 50.00Why do so many American college students tell stories about encounters with ghosts? In Haunted Halls, the first book-length interpretive study of college ghostlore, Elizabeth Tucker takes the reader back to school to get acquainted with a wide range of college spirits. Some of the best-known ghosts that she discusses are Emory University\'s Dooley, who can disband classes by shooting professors with his water pistol; Mansfield Uni-versity\'s Sara, who threw herself down a flight of stairs after being rejected by her boyfriend; and Huntingdon College\'s Red Lady, who slit her wrists while dressed in a red robe. Gettysburg College students have collided with ghosts of soldiers, while students at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College have... more...
Ghosthunting Texasby April Slaughter
Menasha Ridge Press 2009; US$ 13.95Dares readers in Texas to test their spook-finding skills The Lone Star State is so vast it includes just about everything including ghosts! This guide is divided into regions to make it easy to find the phantoms. North Texas offers such creepy destinations as the Old Alton Bridge and Miss Molly's Bed & Breakfast. West Texas spooks haunt the Permia Playhouse and Historic Fort Davis. In Central Texas, they've been spotted terrorizing the Driskill Hotel and the Austin Pizza Garden. More than 50 spooky sites are here, along with detailed maps and photographs of each haunted locale. more...
The Hauntedby Owen Davies
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 44.00The Haunted is the first truly comprehensive social history of ghosts. Using fascinating and entertaining examples, Davies places the history of ghosts within their wider social and cultural context, and examines why a belief in ghosts continues to be vibrant, socially relevant and historically illuminating. more...
Popular Ghostsby Esther Peeren; Maria del Pilar Blanco
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are united by the impulse to theorize the cultural work that ghosts do within the trans-historical contexts that comprise our understanding of everyday life. These authors study the theoretical and aesthetic genealogies of the spectral, while also commenting on the multiple everyday spaces that this category occupies. Rather than looking to a single tradition or medium, the... more...
Hauntedby Dorah L. Williams
Dundurn Press 2002; US$ 19.99Shortly after the Williams family moved into a Victorian home, strange things began to happen. more...