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Book Synopsis Haunting History by : Ethan Kleinberg
Download or read book Haunting History written by Ethan Kleinberg and published by Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the past by looking at deconstruction's impact on American historians and then presenting an alternative hauntological theory and method of history influenced by, but not beholden to, the work of Jacques Derrida.
Book Synopsis A Haunted History of Invisible Women by : Leanna Renee Hieber
Download or read book A Haunted History of Invisible Women written by Leanna Renee Hieber and published by Citadel. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the notorious Lizzie Borden to the innumerable, haunted rooms of Sarah Winchester's mysterious mansion this offbeat, insightful, first-ever book of its kind from the brilliant guides behind 'Boroughs of the Dead,' featured on NPR.org, The New York Times, and Jezebel, explores the history behind America's female ghosts, the stereotypes, myths, and paranormal tales that swirl around them, what their stories reveal about us--and why they haunt us"--
Download or read book Ghosts written by Lisa Morton and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From that cheerful puff of smoke known as Casper to the hunkiest potter living or dead, Sam Wheat, there is probably no more iconic entity in supernatural history than the ghost. And these are just recent examples. From the earliest writings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to today’s ghost-hunting reality TV shows, ghosts have chilled the air of nearly every era and every culture in human history. In this book, Lisa Morton uses her scholarly prowess—more powerful than any proton pack—to wrangle together history’s most enduring ghosts into an entertaining and comprehensive look at what otherwise seems to always evade our eyes. Tracing the ghost’s constantly shifting contours, Morton asks the most direct question—What exactly is a ghost?—and examines related entities such as poltergeists, wraiths, and revenants. She asks how a ghost is related to a soul, and she outlines all the different kinds of ghosts there are. To do so, she visits the spirits of the classical world, including the five-part Egyptian soul and the first haunted-house, conceived in the Roman playwright Plautus’s comedy, Mostellaria. She confronts us with the frightening phantoms of the Middle Ages—who could incinerate priests and devour children—and reminds us of the nineteenth-century rise of Spiritualism, a religion essentially devoted to ghosts. She visits with the Indian bhuta and goes to the Hungry Ghost Festival in China, and of course she spends time in Mexico, where ghosts have a particularly strong grip on belief and culture. Along the way she gathers the ectoplasmic residues seeping from books and film reels, from the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto to the 2007 blockbuster Paranormal Activity, from the stories of Ann Radcliffe to those of Stephen King. Wide-ranging, informative, and slicked with over fifty unearthly images, Ghosts is an entertaining read of a cultural phenomenon that will delight anyone, whether they believe in ghosts or not.
Book Synopsis History and Haunting of the Stanley Hotel by : Rebecca F. Pittman
Download or read book History and Haunting of the Stanley Hotel written by Rebecca F. Pittman and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come explore the secrets of the mysterious Stanley Hotel, a wondrous place which inspired Stephen King to pen his bestselling novel "The Shining."
Book Synopsis The Haunting of the Presidents by : Joel Martin
Download or read book The Haunting of the Presidents written by Joel Martin and published by Konecky Konecky. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of paranormal phenomena in the presidential residence is revealed for the first time in a fascinating exploration of the country's most famous portal to the unknown.
Download or read book Ghostland written by Colin Dickey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Haunted by History written by Craig Owens and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by History, Volume I, by Craig Owens uncovers little known facts about eight prominent historic hotels in Southern California and the origins behind many of their ghost stories. Not only does his well-documented research separate facts from legends, but Owens also keeps the subject matter interesting by interweaving historic photos with his own elaborately staged Old Hollywood-style photos shot in the most haunted rooms, hallways, and lobbies. This unique book blends solid research, fascinating insights, and haunting photography that will appeal to believers and non-believers alike. Hotels and inns featured in Vol. 1 are the Hotel del Coronado, the Victorian Rose Bed & Breakfast, the Julian Gold Rush Hotel, the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, the Alexandria Hotel, the Wyndham Garden Pierpont Inn, the Banning House Lodge, and the Glen Tavern Inn.
Download or read book Lemp written by Stephen P. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elements of a Haunting by : Brandon Alvis
Download or read book Elements of a Haunting written by Brandon Alvis and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2022-01-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peek Behind the Scenes of Spine-Tingling Investigations Join Brandon Alvis and Mustafa Gatollari, stars of the hit A&E television show Ghost Hunters, as they delve into the methodology of their most compelling investigations. Within these pages, you will discover the fascinating history of six haunted locations and how it pertains to the events of each case, including details that have never been previously revealed. Elements of a Haunting covers the shocking secrets of the Athenaeum in Indianapolis, the Madison Seminary in Ohio, the Worley Hospital in Texas, the Glen House in Missouri, and the Original Springs Hotel and Galena Marine Hospital in Illinois. Learn how Brandon and Mustafa gather empirical evidence of paranormal phenomena, as well as the ethics, theory, and protocol they utilize in every investigation. The authors also include their groundbreaking classification system for ghosts and hauntings that is transforming the field of paranormal studies into a true scientific discipline.
Book Synopsis Haunting History by : Ethan Kleinberg
Download or read book Haunting History written by Ethan Kleinberg and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization of lived experience, materialism, and the "real;" new trends in philosophy of history; and the persistence of ontological realism as the dominant mode of thought for conventional historians. Arguing that this ontological realist mode of thinking is reinforced by current analog publishing practices, Ethan Kleinberg advocates for a hauntological approach to history that follows the work of Jacques Derrida and embraces a past that is at once present and absent, available and restricted, rather than a fixed and static snapshot of a moment in time. This polysemic understanding of the past as multiple and conflicting, he maintains, is what makes the deconstructive approach to the past particularly well suited to new digital forms of historical writing and presentation.
Book Synopsis A History of Ghosts by : Peter H. Aykroyd
Download or read book A History of Ghosts written by Peter H. Aykroyd and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The father of "Ghostbusters" star Dan Aykroyd shares the blockbuster movie's real-life inspiration: his own family's colorful history and experiences with the paranormal. color photo insert.
Download or read book A Haunting written by L. I. Albemont and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Contagion: A Novel of The Living Dead comes a new novel of dark horror. Fleeing a troubled past, Sarah Faust has found the perfect place to start a new life. Neglected but with potential, the three-hundred year old townhouse in the port city of Charleston offers a refuge and a place to start over. But all is not as it seems at 5 Rue Lane and she soon finds that her new house harbors something that has been there for a very long time. Something that refuses to stay buried.Readers are saying: "Don't read this alone because it is a great demon story and you might need backup. The Exorcist scared me so bad when I was a teenager I couldn't sleep alone for years. This story brought all that fear back." "The twists and turns in this book are great. It's creepy and spine tingling! I love the ending and recommend it to anyone that enjoys a good suspense novel!" "Loved the book. The story line was A++. Hope there is more to come from this book. It needs a sequel."
Book Synopsis Tales from the Haunted South by : Tiya Miles
Download or read book Tales from the Haunted South written by Tiya Miles and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.
Book Synopsis A History of Moonville, Ohio and a Collection of Its Haunting Tales by : William M. Cullen
Download or read book A History of Moonville, Ohio and a Collection of Its Haunting Tales written by William M. Cullen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Moonville, Ohio and a Collection of its Haunting Tales, Revised Edition, is an updated version of a previous work the author had published back in 2008. This revised edition contains more detailed history about Moonville and its surrounding towns, such as Zaleski, on how they came to be, most notably that Moonville was named by the railroad after a general store proprietor rather than the man who had actually founded the town; and that Zaleski was named after a Polish/French financier who never came to America to see his namesake town. This revised edition also contains more haunting tales of what had happened to some of those who had lived and worked in this remote mining town in eastern Vinton County, Ohio, mainly covering those who had been involved in train accidents surrounding the still-standing tunnel as these trains came barreling through the area; plus, there are a few tales of murder as well. There are also a few light-hearted tales most notably that of a well-known English author who had passed through Moonville on his way to tour America back in the late 1860s as well as a story about some feisty sisters, in Athens, who took on the expanding railroad. There are human interest elements in all of this, most notably to me, is the story of the Dexters who had been enslaved in Virginia, escaping in the 1860s, having made their way to Moonville in order to live out their lives in freedom. This book is about preserving the history of a mining town that began back in the 1850s, thriving for nearly fifty years, before it began its long slide into history, though not completely forgotten, for it had been, once, a vital part of Ohios history, especially in the days leading up to the American Civil War; and that is why I wrote and revised this work - for Moonvilles history is a part of Ohios history.
Book Synopsis The Incurable: History and Haunting of Waverly Hills Sanatorium by : Christopher Booth
Download or read book The Incurable: History and Haunting of Waverly Hills Sanatorium written by Christopher Booth and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1928, Kentucky, a horrific disease known as the white plague claimed over thousands of lives. A monstrous sanatorium was built to isolate and play host to bizarre experiments in desperation to find a cure. From the producer of Spooked and Death Tunnel, Christopher Saint Booth shares this emotional yet Spooked diary of the infected and the hell hospital they called home. Read the true accounts of a day in the life and death of the Incurable. Contains the hidden past, journals from actual patients, staff and ghost hunters. Exclusive interviews with the haunted and the blessed. This is their true story, their last words and memories of the scariest place on earth. Waverly Hills Sanatorium, a monster of a building! May their souls never be forgotten.
Book Synopsis The History and Haunting of the Stanley Hotel, 2nd Edition by : Rebecca F. Pittman
Download or read book The History and Haunting of the Stanley Hotel, 2nd Edition written by Rebecca F. Pittman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History and Haunting of the Stanley Hotel, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive look at one of the most-haunted venues in the world. Created by F.O. Stanley, the genius behind the Stanley Steamer Motor Car, the 1909 hotel inspired horror writer Stephen King in 1974 to write his blockbuster book, The Shining, which later spawned two movie versions. With new interviews, an expanded section on King's thoughts about the hotel and his works, current stories about the paranormal activity occurring at the Stanley Hotel on a daily basis, and ghost photos that will surprise you, this is one-stop shopping for all things Stanley. Also included is a Ghost Hunter's Guide and a section about what constitutes a haunting, today's ghost hunting technology and more.
Book Synopsis Ghosts of Athens by : Tracy L. Adkins
Download or read book Ghosts of Athens written by Tracy L. Adkins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts of Athens blends the historical with the haunted for more than thirty locations in the Classic City. First, the history of each location unfolds, then details are disclosed of creepy events that occurred there, including contemporary anecdotes, historical folklore, and tales told from one generation to the next. From humorous to heartwarming to hard-to-believe, these spooky tales are more than just Halloween fun. Join an excursion through the vibrant history of this colorful Southern town and meet the residents who can't seem to say goodbye. Join author and long-time Athens, Georgia resident Tracy Adkins on this tour of haunted locations in this Classic City. Stories include: Demosthenian Hall The Wedding Cake House Lustrat House Candler Hall The Stairway to Nowhere Waddel Hall The Morton Theatre The T.R.R.Cobb House The Foundry (Graduate Hotel) Fire Hall Number One The Ware-Lyndon House The Taylor-Grady House Memorial Park Old Athens Cemetery Oconee Hill Cemetery Arnocroft Bernstein Funeral Home Athens Ben Epps Airport Eagle Tavern And more...
