Download or read book Hoaxes and Hexes written by Barbara Smith and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines hoax as a “humorous or malicious deception,” and hex as “a magic spell.” In Hoaxes and Hexes, Barbara Smith explores these intriguing reflections of human nature, showing our curious desire to believe in the impossible and explain the inexplicable. Here are tales of swindlers, charlatans and imposters, among them the flamboyant 19th-century financier known as Lord Gordon-Gordon; David Walsh, author of the horrendous Bre-X gold-mine hoax of the 1990s; and the eccentric Josef Papp, who claimed to have crossed the Atlantic in a homemade submarine. The persistent power of hexes is recorded in stories of cursed places— including a strange haunting in the Cypress Hills and a deadly Lake Superior lighthouse—and weird coincidences, such as the legendary Hollywood hex on Oscar-winning actresses. Whether you believe in the power of hoaxes or hexes or not, these bizarre stories show them to be a fascinating part of our history.

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Download or read book Jack the Ripper and Black Magic written by Spiro Dimolianis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack the Ripper is a gothic tale of Victorian conspiracies, the supernatural, secret societies and the police. Scotland Yard hunted a serial killer shrouded in politics as the mutilator of East End prostitutes. This book uses historic sources and rare official reports to reveal dark and supernatural aspects of the Ripper case.

Download or read book Hexes and Hijinks written by Christine Pope and published by Dark Valentine Press. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 1970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for a magical mystery tour.... Explore new worlds of enchantment in this special boxed set of paranormal cozies from USA Today and national bestselling authors! This collection features more than half a million words of cozy goodness, with everything from talking cats to crime-solving witches, sleuthing psychics, and much, much more! This set includes the following books: Caffeine Before Curses - Christine Pope High Noon - S.E. Biglow Mystic Pieces - Ada Bell Of Potions and Portents - Nyx Halliwell Pawsitively Poisonous - Melissa Erin Jackson Dead Even - Patti Larsen The Guest Is a Goner - Carly Winter The Psychic Cat Mysteries - SM Reine Adventures of a Vegan Vamp - Cate Lawley Hazard in Hawaii - Heather Silvio

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Download or read book Fantasy Forgery and the Byron Legend written by James Soderholm and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byron was—to echo Wordsworth—half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion." But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend. Accused of "treating women harshly," Byron acknowledged: "It may be so—but I have been their martyr. My whole life has been sacrificed to them and by them." Those whom he spell bound often returned the favor in their own writings tried to remake his public image to reflect their own. Through writings both well known and generally unknown, James Soderholm examines the poet's relationship with five women: Elizabeth Pigot, Caroline Lamb, Annabella Milbanke, Teresa Guiccioli, and Marguerite Blessington. These women participated in Byron's life and literary career and the manipulation of images that is the Byron legend. Soderholm argues against the sentimental depictions of biographers who would preserve Byron's romantic aura by diminishing the contributions of these women to his social, sexual, and literary identity. By restoring the contexts in which literary works charm or bedevil particular readers, the author shows the consequences of Byron's poetic seductions during and after his life.

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Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe written by A. Robert Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction, A. Robert Lee; Reflections On, and In, "The Fall of the House of Usher," Mark Kinkead-Weekes; Doodling America: Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle," Harold Beaver; Poe's Stories of Premature Burial: "That Ere Kind of Style," Arnold Goldman; Poe's Comic Vision and Southwestern Humour, James Justus; Was the Chevalier Left-Handed? Poe's Dupin Stories, Robert Giddings; A Serious Case? Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, A. Robert Lee; "A Strange Sound, As of a Harp-string Broken": The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, David Murray; Law, Lawlessness and Philosophy in Edgar Allan Poe, Eric Mottram; "I am a Virginian": Edgar Allan Poe and the South, Richard Gray; Poe in France: A Myth Revisited, John Weightman