Download or read book An American Ghost written by Chester Aaron and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As flood waters sweep his house down the Mississippi River, a boy is joined by a mountain lion who is also trying desperately to stay alive.
Download or read book American Ghost written by Janis Owens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling, deeply rewarding novel from a unique southern storyteller, American Ghost is Janis Owens' richly woven story about how unresolved family history and the racial tensions of the past threaten a love affair between two young Floridians"--
Download or read book American Ghost written by Hannah Nordhaus and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Download or read book 50 Real American Ghost Stories written by M. J. Wayland and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and ghost historian MJ Wayland explores America's haunted heritage. As well as visiting some of the most famous ghost cases of the time, the author also uncovers ghost stories that have never seen print in over a hundred and fifty years! From the downright chilling, to scary and the weird, this collection of REAL ghost stories is ideal for a Halloween thrill or an insight into a unique haunted history. The real life ghost cases include: Faces in the Windows The Haunted Bedstead The Ghost Clock of Boston Poor Bessie Brown The Jonah Three Stories of Hauntings Good News for Ghosts Des Moines's Plague of Ghosts Shooting a Ghost A Live Spook The Return of Dr. Jewel Forbes Manor Ghosts in the Capitol Jonelle Lambkin Rings the Bell Mrs. Warfield's Haunted House Mumler's Spirit Photography Scared to Death by a Ghost The Bones of Timothy Felt A Ghost Hunt of Louisville The Ghost of Henry Smith Giant Ghost of Benton A Real life Daphne and Velma - Sixty Years Before! The Haunted Chamber Investigation of a haunted church The Haunting of Clara Robertson Hoffman Family Poltergeist Indiana Ghost Frenzy The Tipton Ghost An Indianapolis Haunted House Piano-Maker's Ghost The Restless Spirit of Flatbush Return of the Union Officer In Search of a Spectral Calf Unseen Terror of Dubuque The White Mountain Ghost of Lizzie Bourne A Seance Too Far Benjamin Stiver's Ghost Attack! The Big Joke Death by Ghost A Civil War Ghost Story AND MORE!"
Download or read book American Ghost written by Hannah Nordhaus and published by Harper. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Download or read book American Ghosts written by Kate Mikoley and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From movies, books, and television to the stories told around campfires, ghosts are a big part of American culture. Many believe these creatures exist only within the stories people tell, but that doesn't mean they're not still fascinated with the idea of ghosts. This innovative volume explores stories of these supernatural beings throughout American history. Through an enthralling narrative, spooky images, and fascinating sidebars, readers will learn about legends featuring many different kinds of ghosts and examine how they relate to the events and people that inspired the popular tales.
Download or read book Great American Ghost Stories written by Frank D. McSherry and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring ghost stories, old and new, from the darkest corners of America, Volume Two of this classic collection includes works of horror and the macabre by Joyce Carol Oates, Ambrose Bierce, Jack Cady, Arthur J. Burks, Michael Cassutt, Oliver LaFarge, Seabury Quinn, and others.
Download or read book Great American Ghost Stories written by Hans Holzer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of over 20 cases of hauntings.
Download or read book American Ghost Stories written by Michael A. Kozlowski and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an eerie road trip! A chilling collection of true ghost stories spanning every state in the United States with a full range of ghostly manifestations and haunted locations! From séances to shiny graveyards, take a ghostly journey across the United States. Visit the highways and byways of the supernatural across the country and in each state in the union. American Ghost Stories: True Tales from All 50 States tours possessed houses, unearthly burial sites, forbidding farms, sinister forests, school bathrooms, and all manner of places haunted by spectral visitors, including … Sullivan, Maine, and Nelly Butler, America’s “first ghost.” Wilder, Kentucky, and Bobby Mackey’s Music World, which was originally built as a slaughterhouse and then served at various times as a honky-tonk, bingo hall, biker bar, and cocktail lounge before becoming a direct portal to Hell. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and The Pfister Hotel, where every U.S. president since William McKinley stayed—as did Elvis Presley—and its weird noises, flickering lights, malfunctioning electronics, and moving objects. Exeter, Rhode Island, and Mercy Lena Brown, the vampire ghost that was caught on a YouTube video. San Jose, California, and the maze-like Winchester House, which was allegedly designed to confuse ghosts that haunted the original owner … and have continued to haunt people every since. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Skirvin Hotel, the historic Art Deco hotel, former speakeasy, and location of several gunfights that is haunted full time by Effie, a Prohibition-era chambermaid. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the numerous sightings at the Betsy Ross House. Huntsville, Alabama, and the Maple Hill Cemetery, the internment site for governors, U.S. senators, representatives, and soldiers that is the site of … a playground! Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, and Pavla Blanca, the woman in white roaming the dunes of the White Sand National Monument. And many more paranormal experiences, poltergeists, residual hauntings, curses, witches, prisons, bridges, mental institutions of an America plagued with spirits, phantoms and ghosts! More than merely a collection of 50 true ghost stories, American Ghost Stories puts you in the middle of the eerie action with captivating stories that would be at home at any midnight campfire. The only difference is that these stories aren't urban legends or fantasies meant to scare you. These stories live right next door to every one of us. We suggest you don’t read them when you are home alone and the lights begin to flicker!
Download or read book Classic American Ghost Stories written by Deborah L. Downer and published by august house. This book was released on 1990 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 51 supposedly true, classic American ghost stories from newspapers, journals, and magazines.
Download or read book Haunted Heritage written by Michael Norman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ghost stories passed on by word of mouth throughout American history that recount supernatural events from around the country and throughout history.
Download or read book Spooky Spookier written by Lori Haskins Houran and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American history mixes with legend in four classic ghost tales for Step 4 early readers: a Cape Cod ghost horse that leads ships away from danger; a portrait that protests being moved within Virginia’s Shirley Plantation museum; a Colorado miner who continued to look for love even after his bones were dumped down an outhouse hole; and a one-handed California sea captain whose ghost is still said to prowl Stinson Beach. Step 4 Readers use challenging vocabulary and short paragraphs to tell exciting stories. For newly independent readers who read simple sentences with confidence.
Download or read book 50 Real American Ghost Stories written by M. J. Wayland and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do the dead still walk America's highways and houses? M.J. Wayland explores America's haunted heritage and takes the reader on a journey through fifty real ghost stories expertly researched from undiscovered archive materials."--back cover. " This book is a snapshot of the ghostly activity reported during the 1800s' but also one that provides an insight into the vast scale of paranormal activity. There are the hoaxes, clairvoyants and very wayout stories but we also gain a keen insight into the big stories of the day. The Robertson family, especially Clara became a local celebrity due to her experiences, the Hoffman family has hundreds (if not thousands ) of visitors traveling many miles to visit their haunted house and we have Mumler's Spririt Photographs that became a sensation in Boston and New York."--back cover
Download or read book The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story written by Scott Brewster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan, and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern literary and visual culture. It explores the main tropes, thematic preoccupations, principal settings, and stylistic innovations of literary ghost stories in the United States, and the ghost story’s rich afterlife in cinema, television, and digital culture. Throughout, the role played by ghost stories in nation-building, and the questions these tales raise about race, class, sexuality, religion, and science, will be examined. The book examines major practitioners in the field, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edith Wharton, alongside prominent ghost narratives in cinematic, televisual, and online form, including podcasts, gaming, and ghost-hunting apps. This study also gives a new prominence to neglected or less familiar authors, including BIPOC writers, who have helped to shape the American ghost story tradition.
Download or read book The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story written by Scott Brewster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan, and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern literary and visual culture. It explores the main tropes, thematic preoccupations, principal settings, and stylistic innovations of literary ghost stories in the United States, and the ghost story’s rich afterlife in cinema, television, and digital culture. Throughout, the role played by ghost stories in nation-building, and the questions these tales raise about race, class, sexuality, religion, and science, will be examined. The book examines major practitioners in the field, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edith Wharton, alongside prominent ghost narratives in cinematic, televisual, and online form, including podcasts, gaming, and ghost-hunting apps. This study also gives a new prominence to neglected or less familiar authors, including BIPOC writers, who have helped to shape the American ghost story tradition.
Download or read book American Ghost written by Paul Guernsey and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***WINNER OF THE 2018 MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR SPECULATIVE FICTION*** An inventive metafictional novel, in which a drug-dealing biker must solve his own murder from beyond the grave. Thumb Rivera is in a bind. A college dropout, aspiring writer, smalltime marijuana grower, and biker club hang-around, Thumb finds himself confined to his rural ranch house in the desolate Maine countryside, helpless to do anything but watch as his former friends and housemates scheme behind his back, conspire to steal his girlfriend, and make inroads with the Blood Eagles, a dangerous biker gang. Thumb is also dead. A ghost forced to haunt his survivors and reflect back on the circumstances that led to his unsolved murder, Thumb discovers he has one channel through which he can communicate with the living world: Ben, an unemployed ghost hunter. Ben soon convinces local curmudgeon Fred Muttkowski, failed novelist turned pig farmer, to turn Ben’s Ouija-board conversations with Thumb into an actual book. Thumb has two things on his mind: To solve, and then avenge, the mystery of his own violent death, and also to tell his story. That story is American Ghost—as told to Ben, then fictionalized by Fred. It's at once a clever tale of the afterlife, a poignant examination of the ephemeral nature of life, and a celebration of writing and the written word.
Download or read book American Ghost Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American ghosts stories have their origins in the gothic, mixed with the fears of the pioneer landscapes. A terrific new collection of classic tales Settling in for a night of spine-chilling entertainment? Here's a gripping collection of classic American ghost tales by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe ('The Masque of the Red Death'), Francis Bret Harte ('The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle'), Edith Wharton ('Afterward'), Mark Twain ('A Ghost Story'), Harriet Beecher Stowe ('The Ghost in the Mill'), O. Henry ('A Ghost of a Chance'), H.P. Lovecraft ('The Outsider') and many more. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
