Download or read book Ghosts of Old Louisville written by David Domine and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neighborhood in the country. Beneath the balconies and terraces of the district's Gothic, Queen Anne, and Beaux Arts mansions, current residents trade riveting stories about their historic homes. Many of these tales defy rational explanation. When David Dominé moved into one of these houses, he dismissed local rumors of a resident poltergeist named Lucy. However, before long, unnerving, disembodied footsteps and mysterious odors caused him to flee his home in the middle of the night. Since that night, David Dominé not only embraced the possibility of supernatural phenomenon but also turned it into a popular tour series and best-selling collection of books, which have brought new attention to this iconic neighborhood. The book that launched the guided tours, Ghosts of Old Louisville, introduced readers to the hauntingly beautiful Lady of the Stairs and the Widow Hoag, who waits eternally near Fountain Court for a lost child who will never return. These tales of things that go bump in the night not only reveal why Old Louisville is considered the "most haunted neighborhood in America," but also help to preserve this historically and architecturally significant community.
Download or read book The Reassurance of Ghosts written by Jon Obermeyer and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Reassurance of Ghosts" is Jon Obermeyer's debut collection, representing 40 years of poems. A former student of Robert Watson and Fred Chappell, Jon fulfills the promise with 140 finely-wrought, captivating narratives, full of immediacy and a clever, playful love of our language. While you can no longer consider Jon a young, undiscovered poet, what we see here is a consummate artisan working at full-force power and reach.
Download or read book The First Ghosts written by Irving Finkel and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History Revealed 'A fascinating journey' - Yorkshire Post 'Marvellous...Finkel is an expert in Mesopotamian cultures at the British Museum, and is one of the most clever, and nicest, of people it has ever been my pleasure to encounter...A fascinating journey' - The Scotsman There are few things more in common across cultures than the belief in ghosts. Ghosts inhabit something of the very essence of what it is to be human. Whether we personally 'believe' or not, we are all aware of ghosts and the rich mythologies and rituals surrounding them. They have inspired, fascinated and frightened us for centuries - yet most of us are only familiar with the vengeful apparitions of Shakespeare, or the ghastly spectres haunting the pages of 19th century gothic literature. But their origins are much, much older... The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies takes us back to the very beginning. A world-renowned authority on cuneiform, the form of writing on clay tablets which dates back to 3400BC, Irving Finkel has embarked upon an ancient ghost hunt, scouring these tablets to unlock the secrets of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians to breathe new life into the first ghost stories ever written. In The First Ghosts, he uncovers an extraordinarily rich seam of ancient spirit wisdom which has remained hidden for nearly 4000 years, covering practical details of how to live with ghosts, how to get rid of them and bring them back, and how to avoid becoming one, as well as exploring more philosophical questions: what are ghosts, why does the idea of them remain so powerful despite the lack of concrete evidence, and what do they tell us about being human?
Download or read book Ghost of written by Diana Khoi Nguyen and published by Omnidawn Open. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize
Download or read book The Seer of Shadows written by Avi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace Carpetine does not believe in ghosts. Raised to believe in science and reason, Horace Carpetine passes off spirits as superstition. Then he becomes an apprentice photographer and discovers an eerie—and even dangerous—supernatural power in his very own photographs. When a wealthy lady orders a portrait to place by her daughter's gravesite, Horace's employer, Enoch Middleditch, schemes to sell her more pictures—by convincing her that her daughter's ghost has appeared in the ones he's already taken. It's Horace's job to create images of the girl. Yet Horace somehow captures the girl's spirit along with her likeness. And when the spirit escapes the photographs, Horace discovers he's released a ghost bent on a deadly revenge. . . .
Download or read book Tiny Beautiful Things written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series • The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.
Download or read book Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters Chilling American Indian Stories written by Dan SaSuWeh Jones and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A shiver-inducing collection of short stories to read under the covers, from a breadth of American Indian nations. Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood. Some of the creatures in these pages might only have a message for you, but some are the stuff of nightmares. These thirty-two short stories -- from tales passed down for generations to accounts that could have happened yesterday -- are collected from the thriving tradition of ghost stories in American Indian cultures across North America. Prepare for stories of witches and walking dolls, hungry skeletons, La Llorona and Deer Woman, and other supernatural beings ready to chill you to the bone. Dan SaSuWeh Jones (Ponca Nation) tells of his own encounters and selects his favorite spooky, eerie, surprising, and spine-tingling stories, all paired with haunting art by Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva). So dim the lights (or maybe turn them all on) and pick up a story...if you dare.
Download or read book Poems written by James Weldon Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having trouble finding scholarly sources for your research paper? This Squid Ink Classic includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations for scholarly secondary sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and critical essays for when your teacher requires extra resources in MLA format for your research paper. Why spend more time looking for your sources than writing your paper? Work smarter not harder with Squid Ink Classics. The smart way to do homework.
Download or read book Ghosts I Have Been written by Richard Peck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon discovering that she has the gift of Second Sight, Blossom also learns that whether glimpsing the future or traveling into the past, one is powerless to alter history.
Download or read book Ghastly Ghosts written by Teresa Bateman and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rhyming, rollicking haunted house story that's spooky and fun to read aloud! Old Dave inherits a lonely old house from his uncle—a nice enough place, if a bit lonely. One cold night he hears a voice: Ghastly ghosts in the old coal shed! At first he tries to ignore it, but he hears it again and again—Ghastly ghosts in the old coal shed! And when the fireplace runs out of coal, Dave has no choice but to brave the dreaded coal shed...and whatever dwells within. But Old Dave's got an idea that just might work out for him AND the spirits.
Download or read book Ghost written by Jason Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.
Download or read book Oh No Not Ghosts written by Richard Michelson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An older brother "reassures" his younger sister about all the creatures that she imagines lurking in the dark bedroom, but his words only scare her more.
Download or read book Ghosts written by Alvin Schwartz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1993-08-30 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe in ghosts? Some people do . . . These spooky -- and funny -- tales about singing ghosts, toast-eating ghosts, and ghosts no one even guesses are sure to send shivers up and down your spine. Why not retell them to your friends and see if you can make their spines tingle, too?
Download or read book A Year In Weetamoo Woods written by Christopher Yokel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Year in Weetamoo Woods is a meditation on a sense of place, and a journey through the beauties of nature and the universal longings of the human heart. Written between Fall 2011 and Summer 2012 at the Weetamoo Woods nature preserve in Tiverton, Rhode Island, Yokel has crafted a collection that blends free verse and haiku with a lyric style and attention to the details of the forest landscape, capturing a wandering, faithful spirit throughout the changing seasons.
Download or read book Complete Poems written by James Weldon Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works—Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935)—along with a number of previously unpublished poems. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson's many achievements and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Ghosts of the Titanic written by Charles R. Pellegrino and published by Avon. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of the team that discovered the Titanic on the ocean floor recreates the final day of the ship in detail, using new technology to peer deeper into the ship than anyone has ever looked.
Download or read book Eight Ghosts written by Sarah Perry and published by September Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. 'An impressive line-up of established and emerging names.' The Sunday Times 'These eerie, unsettling stories are guaranteed to send shivers down your spine.' Daily Express Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. 'Subtly evocative of human relations loss, grief, or the fear of loneliness.' TLS 'A satisfying and spooky read.' Sun Also includes a gazetteer of English Heritage properties which are said to be haunted.
