Download or read book Main Street written by Sinclair Lewis and published by First Avenue Editions TM. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.
Download or read book Haunted Marion Ohio written by Joshua Simpkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in history and steeped in blue-collar values, Marion, Ohio, is much like any midwestern city, aside from its abundance of ghouls and unexplained phenomena. From well-known landmarks like the mysterious Merchant Ball to largely forgotten locales like the Quarry Street Cemetery, Joshua Simpkins of Spookymarion.com takes readers on a delightful journey through Marions bizarre history and hauntings. Was President Hardings death forecast by the First Ladys squawking finchits feathered form now stuffed and encased in the Harding Homeon the eve of the presidents ill fated trip to Alaska? Dare to visit the Mongoloid House or see what goes bump at the empty downtown YMCA. Revisit Marions urban legends and discover little-known ghouls that deserve to be heard.
Download or read book Terror On Main Street written by Dan J. Pease and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most prolific places to come alive with dark, scary magic on the Halloween night is a small village Torquay, and particularly scary is its Main Street, hailed as one of the most intriguing streets of the British Isles. Many of the most disturbing spooky stories here have spread out to the wider areas of England, rattling even the strongest of bones and making blood run as cold as the water around the North Pole. Terror On Main Street is a profound collection of these stories, capturing the dark, horrific legends that Main Street was built on. With history of the Street going as far back as the Middle Ages when 'The Black Death' was coming to an end, the book relates stories of many infected souls fleeing from a godless hell. Contained in the book are also stories of people who reported seeing visions of decapitated Roman army walking down the roads towards a Christian Church, looking to burn it down in the name of their Emperor. For the first time, the world, with Terror On Main Street, can now read of all the spooky beings that were lurking in the shadows in this village and the supernatural pain they were about to suffer.
Download or read book Haunted House on Main Street written by Vickie Preston and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh out of college, Amanda Bysin had moved to the southern state of Georgia to start her career in her chosen field as an Aerospace Engineer. After a year at her job that she enjoyed, Amanda was ready to settle down and purchase the home of her dreams.After purchasing a beautiful old Victorian home in a small town on a street simply known as Main Street, she set her attention on the much needed renovations that she wanted to do to the home. But during the renovations, strange things began to happen around her.The home of her dreams became a nightmare as she began to hear, feel, and see unexplainable incidents that were in the house. From sounds of knocking on doors and walls, to the terrifying nightmares and the life threatening accidents that occured, Amanda had nowhere to turn.Did she stir something up when renovating? Or was her mind playing tricks on her? And what about the strange markings that lie on the basement floor? Those questions ran through her mind as she tried to live peacefully in the haunted house on Main Street.Based on a true story, Amanda's life had changed forever when she purchased the home of her dreams.About The Author:As a paranormal investigator, Vickie Preston has seen, heard, and witnessed many strange paranormal activities throughout the years. she has collected many true stories about haunted houses, ghost, and possessions from eyewitnesses from the U.S. who were willing to share their terrifying encounters. The author enjoys writing fiction and nonfiction stories about the paranormal.
Download or read book Ghosts and Legends of Yonkers written by Jason Medina and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former NYPD officer and current ghost hunter Jason Medina travels up the Hudson River to a hotbed of paranormal activity. The quiet New York suburb of Yonkers hides a history of hauntings. Now converted into apartments, old Public School 13 is the site of strange apparitions that may be ghosts of former students and teachers who died in a tragic fire. The Boyce Thompson Institute’s lofty goal of solving world hunger was never met, and unfulfilled spirits are said to lurk in its abandoned laboratory. Wealthy colonial landowners still watch over stately historic homes like Philipse Manor Hall. Even the iconic Untermyer Park is a playground for the otherworldly. Local ghost investigator Jason Medina reveals these and other ghosts of Yonkers.
Download or read book The World s Most Haunted House written by William J. Hall and published by Career Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unprecedented work, the story of the 1974 Bridgeport, Connecticut poltergeist is at last revealed. A crowd of more than 2,000 onlookers gathered. National media reported jumping furniture, floating refrigerators, and attacking entities. Decades after the publicity quieted, more than 40 hours of never-before-released interviews with police officers, firefighters, and others tell the story as it actually unfolded: Relive the experience, the terror, the rampant emotions, and the unexplainable events that took place in that house as they happened. Have access to revealing excerpts from actual interviews, police reports, and rare documents. Access unreleased audio, poltergeist sounds, and an old radio broadcast. Return to 1974 and feel the Lindley Street experience from the inside. Find out why it is deemed the haunting that should have brought the paranormal into mainstream science.
Download or read book The Last House on Needless Street written by Catriona Ward and published by Tor Nightfire. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." —Stephen King Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel! A World Fantasy Award Finalist! An Indie Next Pick! A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick! A Library Journal Editors' Pick! STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly! Named one of the "50 Best Horror Books of All Time" by Esquire! "Brilliant....[a] deeply frightening deconstruction of the illusion of the self." —The New York Times Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all. “The new face of literary dark fiction.” —Sarah Pinborough At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Haunted Crown Point Indiana written by Judith Tometczak and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the jail cell that once held John Dillinger to quaint shops with dark beginnings, the restless spirits of Crown Point purportedly result from a century-old hex. Legend had it that a caravan of gypsies found themselves unfairly exiled from town. Forced to leave their beloved dead behind in unmarked graves, they invoked a venomous curse on the townspeople and vowed that no ancestor would be allowed eternal peace. Paranormal researcher Judith Tometczak exposes evidence of this deceptively quiet town's dark side.
Download or read book A Certain Hunger written by Chelsea G. Summers and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mystery of the Haunted House written by Willow Night and published by Sycamore Street Mysteries. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware the Haunted House on Sycamore Street! Noah just wants some peace and quiet to finish his homework. But his little brother Josh can't stop talking about the Haunted House. When they go to check it out, the brothers find out they are not the only kids on the case. Olivia is new in town. But she already has a high tech plan to spy on the Haunted House. The three kids join forces to find out the truth. But when Josh goes missing, Noah and Olivia have to decide which is worse- the risk of the Haunted House, or the risk of losing Josh! If your child reads Magic Treehouse, Eerie Elementary or Dragon Masters, then they'll love this brand new chapter book series from Willow Night!
Download or read book Haunted House on the corner written by Kenny Johns and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this story, you will travel to a tiny town in California. Strange happenings are a foot when an FBI agent goes on a search for the truth of what is causing strange disappearances. While under the cover of darkness a strange being is plotting to scare the your soul out of him.
Download or read book Haunted Dallas written by Rita Cook and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get to know the true spirit of Dallas with this guide to haunted houses, hotels, museums and more—includes photos! Tales of the strange and supernatural echo through the streets and halls of the Big D. At the Renaissance-inspired Majestic Theater, it is rumored that the curtains are lowered by ghostly hands, and it is said that there is a sadness that lingers at the Sixth Floor Museum—in the room where Oswald aimed at JFK. Travel downtown to the grand Adolphus Hotel, where guests from the turn of the century still dance to the strains of a phantom waltz, but beware of the stretch of road along White Rock Lake where a mysterious force kills the engines of unwary motorists. Local author and ghost enthusiast Rita Cook journeys into the darkest corners of the Texas heartland with this chilling collection of stories.
Download or read book Main Street to Mainframes written by Harvey K. Flad and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Poughkeepsie’s transformation from small city to urban region.
Download or read book Ghosts and Hauntings of the Finger Lakes written by Patti Unvericht and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From spooky state parks to real-life haunted houses, Ghosts and Hauntings of the Finger Lakes tells the stories behind the most supernatural sites around the shores of New York's famous Finger Lakes. Local paranormal investigator Patti Unvericht takes you on a journey to places such as the Elmira Civil War POW Camp, thought to be inhabited by the restless spirits of casualties of the war, to the State Theatre in Ithaca and even the tourist-friendly Geneva on the Lake, rumored to be haunted by past guests who have expired while staying at the historic hotel.
Download or read book Elephant on Main Street written by B A Kilpatrick and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is this story of Eamon, a little boy growing up in Northern Ireland in the sixties, before he succumbed to Leukaemia, a few months short of his seventh birthday. The book describes specific aspects of his short but remarkable life, all written from his perspective. Each chapter has a footnote which charts the history of the conquest of childhood leukaemia which commenced during his lifetime. The book is based around actual events and things which Eamon said and did which have been passed down. Eamon has the benefit of perspective, so he can describe events that have yet to happen which have a bearing on the life of his family.
Download or read book Haunted Hannibal written by Ken Marks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local historians take readers beyond the celebrated charm of Mark Twain’s boyhood home to its unexplainable and disturbing dark side. After living in Rockcliffe Mansion, where the haunted hallways were a rite of passage for countless Hannibalian youth, Ken and Lisa Marks learned firsthand that Hannibal, Missouri, is indeed haunted. Hannibal’s own Mark Twain held a lifelong fascination with paranormal activity after experiencing an uncanny premonition of the death of his brother in 1858. Even skeptics will find it hard to resist the marvelously strange history of the limestone cave made famous in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer where the real-life, macabre Dr. McDowell experimented with his own daughter’s corpse. Stories of the town’s notorious red light district and Hannibal’s larger-than-life lumber barons provide even more spine-tingling evidence of the haunting of America’s Hometown. Includes photos!
Download or read book Karen s Haunted House Baby Sitters Little Sister 90 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! BOO!Karen’s class gets to help decorate a haunted house for Halloween! It is lots of fun making things look scary. But then Karen and her friends start hearing spooky noises. And someone is playing tricks, too. Who -- or what -- is haunting Karen’s haunted house?
