Download or read book The Science Behind Vampires Witches and Ghosts written by Joy Lin and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends of vampires, witches, and ghosts fascinate young readers. But what would happen if these myths were real? Through this exploration of well-known monsters, young readers discover the history of where each myth may have started. Then, readers take a closer look and learn the science behind how these monsters would look if they were real. Through illustrations showing each mythical monster and exploring the science behind how their bodies need to work to exist, young readers will deepen their understanding of important STEM concepts.
Download or read book Monster Science the Science Behind Vampires Witches and Ghosts written by Joy Lin and published by Wayland. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth-busting Monster Science series explores the science behind the hottest monsters in pop culture. Could a vampire survive on a diet of blood alone? Could a witch really fly on a broomstick when you apply the laws of physics? Can haunted houses be explained by biology? Discover whether the scariest monsters could exist when you apply the hard facts of science. Perfect for the reluctant scientist in your life - draw them in with the graphic novel feel and spooky details of this series! Science principles come to life through quirky and humorous explanations paired with illustrations that strike a balance between the right amount of gory and funny. Author Joy Lin, named one of the most inspirational science teachers by TED Ed, has a featured series on their website. She is also a screenwriter, comedian and presents superpower science theories at various Comic Cons. Joy is also author of the series Superpower Science.
Download or read book Scary Science written by Sylvia Funston and published by Maple Tree. This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phobias, superstitions, witches, werewolves and more!. Uses science to explain paranormal. 10 yrs+
Download or read book A Brief Guide to the Supernatural written by Leo Ruickbie and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Most Haunted to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Underworld to Twilight, from Doom to Resident Evil, The Brief Guide to the Supernatural goes in search of the unearthly with unexpected results; combining history, science, psychology and myth he explores the allure of the paranormal - why so many people still believe in ghosts and angels - as well as the many ways people have tried to contact and record the impossible.
Download or read book The Element Encyclopedia of Vampires written by Theresa Cheung and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A to Z of the Undead
Download or read book Haunted written by Leo Braudy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Shaping Fear -- 2 Between Hope and Fear: Horror and Religion -- 3 Terror, Horror, and the Cult of Nature -- 4 Frankenstein, Robots, and Androids: Horror and the Manufactured Monster -- 5 The Detective's Reason -- 6 Jekyll and Hyde: The Monster from Within -- 7 Dracula and the Haunted Present -- 8 Horror in the Age of Visual Reproduction -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations
Download or read book Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires Or Revenants of Hungary Moravia Et Al written by Augustine Calmet and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treatise of a 1700's abbot monk Augustin Calmet surfaced two centuries ago regarding the supernatural and scientific phenomenon that plagued Europe in an era when Magic, witchcraft, demonology, instances of haunting and even cases of vampires were recorded in historical documentation. It was during the age of reason when a Black Monk from the Benedictine Order of the 18th century, penned a work that would become one of the most influential and controversial works of his time. A plethora of cases regarding events in the supernatural had plagued mankind with fear and mystery throughout history, many inhabitants to the regions of Europe came under an epidemic of social hysteria which steamed from reports of corpses rising from their graves, killing and sucking the blood of victims inhabiting small villages or visitations and the haunting of ghosts, evil spirits and demons. The Black Monk, Abbot Don Augustin Calmet tasked himself with the study of these real and historically documented reports for the purpose of providing the public with the rules to determine a claim's legitimacy through philosophical reasoning and scientific examination that was approved by the King of France in 1746. This work provides an in depth look into the history of most superstitions, mythologies, the analysis of events depicted in ancient texts from various religions and historically renowned cases which had in fact occurred. Calmet lays out the rules for determining the fraudulent claims from the real while also providing a "how to" manual when dealing with or investigating occult matters in witchcraft, ghosts, vampires and demonic possessions. Keep in mind that this work was written by an ordained abbot monk and was accepted by European society as scientific research in his time. This new edition includes translations from the French and Italian works that are being published for the first time! Including the missing letters, detailed notes definitions, and translations of Latin, Italian and French phrases quotes and citations This treatise investigates a number of topics From Volume 1 * Angelic and demonic intervention; * The reality and mythology of magic; divination; curses; * Understanding the difference between real accounts vs that of impostors; * Examples and instances of real possessions caused by the devil; * The power and authority which Satan and demons possess; * False prophets and predictions of happenstance; * The appearance and examinations of specters and pretended specters * Examinations on Specters that haunt houses; * The dead who return to the earth; * Explanations and objections on the instances of apparitions; * The studies on Familiars; Elves; * The secrets of physics and chemistry taken as supernatural things. Also included from volume 2 * Resurrection of the dead; * Instances of people returning from the grave; * Examination to people being buried alive but thought to be dead; * Examinations of (then) modern revenants, ghosts and vampires; * The study of vampires, ghosts in mythology and religions; * Historically recorded accounts of vampires between the 17th and 18th centuries; * Examinations on bodies that do not decay and corpses that show life after death; * The power of demons to kill and restore life; * On the excommunicated and events of their return; * Instances of bodies that devour their own flesh in their graves; * Instances on exhumed bodies and their examinations after reported vampirism. * Analysis on whether vampires or revenants are truly dead; * Instances of people returning from the grave months after declared deceased; Volumes are outlined as follows: VOL I DISSERTATION ON THE APPEARANCE OF ANGELS THE APPEARANCE OF DEMONS THE APPARITIONS OF THE SOULS OF THE DEAD THE APPEARANCE OF THE LIVING AS PROJECTIONS & MAGIC, WITCHES, WIZARDS, ORACLES, POSSESSIONS, ETC. VOL II DISSERTATION ON THE GHOSTS WHO RETURN TO THE EARTHLY BODY, THE EXCOMMUNICATED, THE OUPIRES OR VAMPIRES, VROUCOLACAS, ETC.
Download or read book Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires written by Antoine Augustin Calmet and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 18th century, the stories of witches, ghosts and vampires were taken for the true records, not for legends. In the documents of those times, the mentions of the dead risen from the tombs were often recorded alongside with the mentions of natural disasters like floods and fires. Yet, even in those times, there were doubts about the reality of such episodes. The society needed a tool to tell a true record of vampirism or witchcraft from the faked one. The Abbot Don Augustin Calmet, also known as a Black Monk, with the approval of the King of France, developed a set of rules for determining the legitimacy of such records. His rules based on the philosophical reasoning and scientific examination. This book is a "How to" manual for dealing with the cases of witchcraft, vampirism, ghost appearance or possession. Additionally, this book gives a deep look in the history of these phenomena. In its time, the work by Calmet was perceived the European society of the Age of Rason as scientific research.
Download or read book Vampires and Other Ghosts written by Thomas G. Aylesworth and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents lore and myths from various parts of the world about vampires, zombies, and other supernatural creatures and examines their basis in actual events.
Download or read book The Science of Monsters written by Meg Hafdahl and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have for any fan of horror and fantasy movies—Night of the Living Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining (Stephen King), and so many more! If you love film that scares, and want to believe that zombies, vampires, and other deadly and terrifying creatures could be real, let Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, the women behind the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film Daddy, take you to the world where horror and science meet. How would a zombie really decompose in Night of the Living Dead? Are there instances of shape shifting in nature like in The Wolf Man? What is the science behind the night terrors that inspired the creation of Freddy Krueger? Is there scientific data supporting ghost detection like the tools used in Poltergeist? What is the psychological drive that compels cannibals like Hannibal Lecter? How does modern medicine and therapy differ from what would have been offered to Norman Bates in 1960? How are subliminal messages related to propaganda or brainwashing like in The Ring? What would the scientific explanation be for witches possessing people like in Carrie? Was The Blair Witch Project based on any real or imagined creature that came before?” And so much more! Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence revisit the films from their childhood to discover the science behind the fear. Join Kelly and Meg as they unravel the medical mysteries and scientific marvels that inspired the creation of famous monsters like Nosferatu, Norman Bates, Dracula, Frankenstein, and many more. An approachable and frightfully fun examination of what goes bump in the night, The Science of Monsters will thrill every horror fan.
Download or read book Witches Ghosts Vampires and More written by IglooBooks and published by Igloo Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create your own spooky models with this exciting book. Decorate characters from bats to werewolves, then build the press-outs . . . and get ready to play!
Download or read book Haunted written by Leo Braudy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity. Continuing his interest in the history of emotion, this book explores how fear has been shaped into images of monsters and monstrosity. From the Protestant Reformation to contemporary horror films and fiction, he explores four major types: the monster from nature (King Kong), the created monster (Frankenstein), the monster from within (Mr. Hyde), and the monster from the past (Dracula). Drawing upon deep historical and literary research, Braudy discusses the lasting presence of fearful imaginings in an age of scientific progress, viewing the detective genre as a rational riposte to the irrational world of the monstrous. Haunted is a compelling and incisive work by a writer at the height of his powers.
Download or read book The Ghosts Witches Vampires Quiz Book written by Arthur Liebman and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1991 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dozen multiple choice quizzes about every type of supernatural creature on TV, and in films, literature, myth, and legend.
Download or read book A Discovery of Witches written by Deborah Harkness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series, from the author of The Black Bird Oracle. “A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” (People). Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, book three, The Book of Life, and the fourth in the series, Time’s Convert.
Download or read book Creatures of the Night written by Gregory L. Reece and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires and werewolves; phantoms and phantasms: looming out of the fog leaps the menacing spectre of the lycanthrope, ghoul or blood-crazed zombie. Intrigued by some of the most sinister, yet at the same time most compelling, legends of western civilization, Gregory L Reece dusts down his stake and crucifix, loads his silver bullets and takes off into the wilds in search of answers and fresh adventures. Rummaging around in crumbling tombs and cobwebbed sarcophagi, his latest quest leads him into the haunted realm of the dead and the undead: of those carnivorous, nocturnal hunters that might perhaps better be left undisturbed. Why, he asks, is our culture obsessed by the eerie and the macabre? Why, despite its horrors, does the 'dark side' of the supernatural - its seances and ghost-hunting, demonic possession and the occult - call to us with such dangerous allure? Whether tracking night-stalking werewolves, chanting black magic mantras with Satanists, or interviewing a funereal modern-day Count Dracula, Reece is determined to uncover the truth. A wry exploration of a secret and secretive subculture, "Creatures of the Night" is at the same time a bold and startling journey into a wraithlike world that has so often seemed to lie beyond the limits of rational comprehension - until now.
Download or read book Ghosts written by Jacqueline Laks Gorman and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2002 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces ghosts, describing what people believe about them and examples of sightings of different ghosts.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Vampires Werewolves and Other Monsters written by Rosemary Guiley and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters and shape-shifters have always held a special fascination in mythologies, legends, and folklore the world over. From ancient customs to famous cases of beasts and vampires and their reflections in popular culture, 600 entries provide definitions, explanations, and lists of suggested further reading.
