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.

Download or read book Paranormal Confessions written by Kristin Lee and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2021 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Built in 1847 on the banks of the Ohio River, the Bellaire House is reputed to be one of the most haunted houses in America. Since the early 20th century, it has earned a reputation as a hotbed of paranormal activity-the site of apparitions, curses, psychic assaults, and violence. This is a collection of true ghost stories from the former owner of the Bellaire House and the proprietor of the Bellaire House Afterlife Research Center"--

Download or read book Hitler s Monsters written by Eric Kurlander and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dense and scholarly book about . . . the relationship between the Nazi party and the occult . . . reveals stranger-than-fiction truths on every page.”—Daily Telegraph The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. “[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before social media.”—The Washington Post “Deeply researched, convincingly authenticated, this extraordinary study of the magical and supernatural at the highest levels of Nazi Germany will astonish.”—The Spectator “A trustworthy [book] on an extraordinary subject.”—The Times “A fascinating look at a little-understood aspect of fascism.”—Kirkus Reviews “Kurlander provides a careful, clear-headed, and exhaustive examination of a subject so lurid that it has probably scared away some of the serious research it merits.”—National Review

Download or read book Life with the Afterlife written by Amy Bruni and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star of Kindred Spirits and paranormal investigator Amy Bruni shares stories from her years of experiences with ghosts, organized around thirteen truths that guide her approach to the supernatural. Amy Bruni, co-star of Kindred Spirits and one of the world's leading paranormal investigators, has learned a lot about ghosts over her years of research and first-hand experience. Now, in Life with the Afterlife, she shares the insight she has gleaned and how it has shaped her unique approach to interacting with the spirits of the dead and those who encounter them. From her earliest supernatural encounters as a child, through her years appearing on Ghost Hunters and the creation of her company Strange Escapes, which offers paranormal excursions to some of America's most notoriously haunted destinations, and into her current work on The Travel Channel's Kindred Spirits, this book is full of astonishing and deeply moving stories of Amy's efforts to better understand the dead but not yet departed. With Amy's bright humor and fierce compassion for both those who are haunted and those who are haunting, Life with the Afterlife is an eye-opening look at what connects us as people, in life and beyond. A USA Today Bestseller

Download or read book The Paranormal written by Eric Carlton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: A manifestation of mass hysteria, a compensation for physical or emotional deprivation, or an alternative to religion? What is the function of the paranormal in society? This question and its many possible answers are the subject of this scholarly study of our enduring fascination with experiences for which science provides no ready explanations. From the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt to the present day, Eric Carlton surveys the development of ideas and research associated with the paranormal, culminating as it does today in the recognized academic status accorded to parapsychology. With a critical yet open mind, Carlton explores issues associated with the study of the paranormal, such as witchcraft beliefs, near-death experiences and the UFO phenomenon. Case studies are employed to illustrate and illuminate certain examples and theories. This thought-provoking book concludes that the paranormal and our study of it provides a multi-faceted vehicle for humanity's quest to find meaning in life.

Download or read book Into the Book of Light written by Ted Dekker and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could find a way to enter another reality full of wild and life changing adventure? And what if every time you fell asleep you woke up in that other reality? Welcome to the world of Theo Dunnery, a twelve year-old boy who feels alone and full of fear when he stumbles on an ancient book that draws him into another world. In that world, he learns he must complete a quest to find the Five Seals of Truth if he is to conquer his fears. Facing great odds and many enemies, Theo sets off on the adventure of a lifetime to discover who he really is as the son of Elyon, and overcome the darkness that has haunted him for so long. Join Theo on The Dream Traveler's Quest, one story told in four chapter books.

Download or read book Beware the Darkness written by Alexandra Ivy and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enemy may have changed, but the battle between good and evil burns hotter than ever in this scintillating new installment in Alexandra Ivy’s Guardians of Eternity series. There is only one thing more precious to vampire Tarak than his newfound freedom after five centuries of captivity, and that’s the promise of revenge. At last, he can destroy Riven, the merman who has drained his power in order to make himself king. But at the very moment when justice is a fang’s breadth away, Tarak’s quest is complicated by the beautiful mermaid princess who kept him sane and fed during his ordeal. Waverly hoped that once Tarak escaped, he’d return to his own kind and enjoy the rest of his immortal life. She also hoped she might one day stop dreaming about the darkly handsome vampire. Instead, Tarak’s return draws Waverly into an unlikely alliance—and a passion that eclipses all her fantasies. Hatred for Riven has sustained Tarak this long. But only Waverly’s love can give him the strength to claim eternity with her . . .

Download or read book In Search of the Paranormal written by Richard Estep and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From exploring the Tower of London to investigating a haunted Colorado firehouse, paranormal researcher Richard Estep takes you behind the scenes for an up-close-and-personal encounter with a fascinating legion of hauntings. This collection reveals some of the most chilling, captivating, and weird cases that Richard has investigated over the past twenty years, in England and in the United States. In Search of the Paranormal is filled with rich historical detail, present-day research, and compelling eyewitness accounts. You are there with the team at each haunted location: walking through a desecrated graveyard, shivering in a dark basement, getting thrown into The Clink, watching a "ghost-lit" stage in an old theater. Employing a variety of investigative methods—from high-tech gadgets to old-fashioned practices such as dowsing, table tipping, and Ouija boards—Richard Estep and his team uncover the dark mysteries of the paranormal realm. Praise: "This book is written from the heart. Believe in the paranormal or not, Richard Estep's words ring out with sincerity and integrity."—Patrick Burns, star of Haunting Evidence "Within these pages, you can join Richard on his ghostly adventures, from the UK to the US and experience with him what it's like to be a Paranormal Investigator."—Paul Bradford, star of Ghost Hunters International

Download or read book Dream Quest written by J. C. Wilder and published by Oakville, ON : LTDBooks. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're invited to follow your heart and your dreams through nine stunning paranormal romances, including stories by award-winning authors Megan Sybil Baker, Rosemary Laurey, C.B. Scott and J.C. Wilder! In "Lady of Maragorn," true love is threatened by a lifelong curse...In "Kallaayt," a dragon must fight for the human woman he loves. A contemporary woman wakes in the arms of her favorite swashbuckling movie hero and struggles to save his legendary land in "Knight Moves..".A woman on a space station befriends a man she believes can never love her if he learns she's crippled in "The Girl in a Box..".In walking "Through the Woods" divorcee Beth faces a haunting challenge, and a man with a broken heart...and a Chalith warrior risks revealing his dark secret to save the life of the woman he's been sent to kill in "To Call the Moons." Life, love, ghosts, space stations, shapeshifters, dragons, intergalactic intrigue and more! Enter the romantic and intriguing worlds of Dream Quest. now! [Paranormal Romance Anthology] *** Celia from A Romance Review gives Dream Quest 5 Stars!: "All the stories are of extraordinarily high quality, and all deserve praise and recommendation...Each different, each a perfect gem of brilliant beauty, these tales form a book that will lure you in with its seductive charm. I wish I had more time and space to devote a review to the individual stories, but all I can do is encourage you to read it, and discover these jewels of paranormal romance for yourself."

Download or read book Into The Darkness Boxset Books 1 6 written by Valerie Twombly and published by Valerie Twombly. This book was released on with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall Into Darkness: He lost his wings. She gave up her soul to save him. Eli has faced his share of enemies, many of whom were once his own brethren. But when the ruling body of the Seven learn a human dies on his watch, they question his compassion. It doesn’t take long for the angel to find himself wingless and back in the mortal realm. He’s never been a saint; a bounty hunter always holds a darker side. But his clock is now ticking and if he doesn’t learn empathy soon, the next place he will land is directly in Hell. Ashley has never considered her gift “special”. She walks a razor’s edge of sanity and falls deeper into despair every time her visions show her another death. Desperate to escape reality, she runs to her remote cabin in Alaska. If she can’t look a person in the eyes, she won’t watch them die. Hope is something she’s never known until she meets the intense blue gaze of a stranger. Veiled In Darkness: Her name is Death. She is the only one who can save them all. ‘Death’ is not a nickname Ashley wants but it is who she has become. Her mating with Eli brought about her change and no one expected the Angel of Death. Now, she is the only one who can stop Lucifer and his evil plan. There is just one small thing, she must embrace who she is and doing so may darken her forever. Eli lives his days in a haze. His mate is gone and last he saw her was across a bloody battlefield where he stole a tender kiss. Powerless is an emotion that leaves him raw, but he knows killing Lucifer will only endanger Ashley further. He must trust his mate to unveil her true self and sever Lucifer’s hold. Bound By Darkness: He took her mother’s life. Now she wants his. An angel warrior is never supposed to disobey a command but that is exactly what Lyzander did. Twenty years ago, he spared a little girl’s life while his brethren murdered her family. Now he finds himself a captive in the worst place an angel can be. The pits of Hell. No one is coming to save him until a mysterious female shows up wanting to make a deal. Kelana hid under the bed while her mother and grandmother were murdered. Left an orphan, the half human, half succubus had to learn how to wield a blade fast or die in Hell. Now grown, she seeks the archangel who was responsible for her family’s death so she can cut out his beating heart. But her journey for revenge puts her back on her father’s radar and he still wants her dead. Unleash The Darkness: He is everything dark in the world. She is his light, but when she goes missing. He will make even the most evil beg for mercy. Being a reaper means Sephtis is bound to both Heaven and Hell. When he is called upon to escort the damned, he unleashes a power even demons fear. It’s only his mate, Evangeline that keeps him from embracing his darkness and he will do anything to keep her safe. The day Evangeline mated Sephtis, she became a guardian angel. It has been a life filled with everything good in the world until she makes a vow to a dying woman. Disobeying her mate, she tries to fulfill her promise but finds herself pulled into a hell of her own. Surrender To Darkness: He is a fallen. She thinks him beneath her. Sometimes it’s the bad boy who saves you. Cade is a fallen angel who endeavors to follow the right path. That is until the angels’ ruling body decide the warrior is the perfect match to carry out their new assignment. Schooling the young, snobbish Abagail in the art of demon fighting is a challenge he could do without. The female tests him at every turn yet tempts him to show just how bad he can really be. When Abagail is summoned by the Tribunal, she is beyond eager to finally take her place among the angels. With her eye on an elite warrior for her mate, she is determined to make him hers. But when the nephilim is thrust into a mission with a fallen angel, she is mortified. Cade is everything dark and bad, but she quickly learns the line between good and evil is very misleading. Tempted By Darkness: His last mission left him broken. Now his past has come back to haunt him. Tegan is an elite archangel so; commanding armies and ordering deaths is everyday business to him. When he’s handed a mission to gather intel on an emerging species, he finds his beautiful young partner a challenge he’s not sure he can handle. She stirs desires he has avoided for decades, and it forces him to confront a past he thought he had left behind. Rhea has lived her entire life watching the mortal realm through a looking glass. It entices her and when she is offered a mission to go there, the innocent angel jumps at the chance. There’s just one catch. Higher powers want Tegan’s son and it’s her job to seduce the archangel. Keywords: paranormal, paranormal romance, paranormal romance books for adults, angel, angels, fallen angel, angel romance, angel romance books, immortals, immortal romance, fantasy romance, alpha hero, strong heroine, action, adventure, hot burn, steamy romance, PNR, second chance romance, Alaska romance, alpha romance, romance boxset

Download or read book The Dream Traveler s Quest 4 Book Set written by Ted Dekker and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book This Dark Endeavour with Bonus Material written by Kenneth Oppel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH BONUS MATERIAL: Pages from Victor Frankenstein's sketchbook and an excerpt from the upcoming sequel, Such Wicked Intent, available August 2012. Victor Frankenstein leads a charmed life. He and his twin brother, Konrad, and their beautiful cousin Elizabeth take lessons at home and spend their spare time fencing and horseback riding. Along with their friend Henry, they have explored all the hidden passageways and secret rooms of the palatial Frankenstein chateau. Except one. The Dark Library contains ancient tomes written in strange languages, and filled with forbidden knowledge. Their father makes them promise never to visit the library again, but when Konrad becomes deathly ill, Victor knows he must find the book that contains the recipe for the legendary Elixir of Life. The elixir needs only three ingredients. But impossible odds, dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest at every turn. Victor knows he must not fail. But his success depends on how far he is willing to push the boundaries of nature, science and love—and how much he is willing to sacrifice.

Download or read book Shadow s Quest written by Tamsin Baker and published by Harley Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescuing a witch from the underground was hard enough.... keeping her, and her baby alive, will be the hardest thing Shadow ever does. When my cousin talked me into rescuing the witches from the underground, I figured... I've lived long enough. Time to do something truly stupid. Well, that was only the beginning. In the vampire's den I found my fated mate, a woman with enough magic in her blood stream to have every vampire running to kidnap her back. I was never meant to have a mate. I'm a mixed breed-mongrel, and anyone can see it. I have a heavy limp, scaly skin and a hunch back. But nothing will stop me from protecting my woman, or the baby in her belly that I didn't put there. I don't care who comes for them. The Vampire Father's.... or the strongest shifter on the planet. No-one will get past me. Fate truly has a strange sense of humor. *** This is a spin off story of Sadie's RH trilogy- Shadow's story of love for his woman, and the continuation of the Blood World saga.

Download or read book The Witch s Quest written by Michele Hauf and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The witch’s redemption… Kelyn Saint-Pierre always had a bit of a thing for Valor Hearst. But after he makes a harrowing sacrifice to save the tomboyish witch from a gruesome death, Kelyn’s certain that any spark between them is gone forever. Valor wishes she’d known about Kelyn’s crush before she ruined everything. There may be a way she can repay her smoking-hot champion…but it won’t be easy. Circling the globe on a dangerous mission that pits them against deadly magics and dark creatures, Kelyn and Valor are pushed scorchingly close together. But surrendering to passion may only further bind them in pain…

Download or read book Dark Siege written by Jason McLeod and published by Dark Siege. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never know what can be lurking in the cemeteries you casually drive by. Such was the case in the Fall of 1993, when Linda McLaughlin and her innocent six-year-old daughter Kelly passed by Easton Connecticut's Union Cemetery. Kelly didn't even know such spirits existed when an apparition materialized and tapped into her consciousness. Nothing could have prepared her for the suffocating terror that she would soon experience when it followed her home. The merciless spirit didn't stop with Kelly. It targeted each and every family member and their friends when they were alone and when they were most vulnerable. Then it targeted the alpha of the family, the wealthy, Real Estate Broker father, who was a natural skeptic and the last person to believe in ghosts. In this tale of real haunting phenomena, a Connecticut Family is plagued by evil spirits who infest their home. Will they ever get their lives back? Will these evil spirits continue to haunt them or will the family find help in ridding them of this terror from beyond the grave? This book explains in detail the process of investigating a 'haunted house' and what can be done about it. It explains the dangers involved with the negative occult and how dabbling in it can summon darkness and ruin into our lives which could last forever despite our every attempt to stop it.

Download or read book Dark Ghost written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, a wounded warrior and a woman on the run find salvation, passion and unimaginable danger in the ghostly darkness of the Carpathian Mountains… Monk. Bounty hunter. Vampire slayer. Andre Boroi has spent centuries battling the undead, holding out against the dark with honor. But now, gravely wounded by master vampire Costin Popescu, Andre will be easy to track. His only chance is to disappear into the gray mist of the Carpathians. To wait. To hope. In the mountains in search of a precious crystal, geologist Teagan Joanes suddenly finds herself hunted by those she once trusted. Then she comes across the warrior—wounded, wanting and irresistible. Andre has been craving her for an eternity: his lifemate. Her warmth envelops him. Her scent pulsates. And with every beat of her heart, Teagan surrenders to a passion she can’t possibly comprehend...

Download or read book Welcome to Dead House written by R. L. Stine and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh and Amanda just moved into the oldest and weirdest house on the block. the two siblings think it might even be haunted! Of course, their parents don't believe them.