Download or read book The Wrong Turning Encounters with Ghosts written by Stephen Johnson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced and edited by broadcaster Stephen Johnson, a curated selection of chilling ghost stories from world literature. Why do people love ghost stories, even if they don’t believe (or say they don’t believe) in ghosts? Is it simply the adrenaline rush that comes from being mesmerized and terrified by a great storyteller, or do these tales yield deeper meanings—telling us things about our own inner shadows? Stephen Johnson brings together some of the most memorable encounters with ghosts in world literature, from Europe, Russia, the United States, and China. Recurring themes and imagery are noted, interpretations suggested—but only suggested, since ambiguity and resistance to rational interpretation are key elements in the best ghost stories. As the writer Robert Aickman observed, often the decisive moment comes when someone, somehow, makes a “wrong turning”—literally, perhaps, but at the same time psychologically, even morally—and some mysterious nemesis takes over. Old favorites by M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman are interlaced with extracts from longer works by Emily Brontë, Henry James, and Alexander Pushkin,, along with slightly left-field apparitions from Tove Jansson and Flann O’Brien. With such expert guides, who knows what we will be led to encounter in the haunted chambers of our minds?
Download or read book Ghost Stories from Around the World written by Ginnie Siena-Bivona and published by Atriad Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes touching stories of treasured pets who return to comfort their grieving owners and warn them of imminent danger, fire, or intruders. This book also includes many more supernatural experiences and encounters with beloved pets that simply cannot be explained away.
Download or read book Ghosts Among Us written by Leslie Rule and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe in ghosts? Whether you are a believer or a skeptic, the stories of the supernatural in Ghosts Among Us: True Stories of Spirit Encounters will keep you riveted. Macabre and fascinating, Ghosts Among Us offers true-life, haunting accounts of eerie visitations and paranormal experiences along with artistically shot black-and-white photographs of haunted sites. The personal, firsthand reports and chilling, full-length stories are bolstered by sidebars of actual accounts of "Ghosts in the News." Each chapter explores mysterious events-events that the reader will find hard to pass off as mere coincidence. In her quest to uncover explanations for each incident, Leslie Rule extensively researched library archives and interviewed credible witnesses, historians, renowned psychics, and parapsychologists. Throughout Ghosts Among Us, Rule's findings are mesmerizing. She writes about being raised in a haunted house. "To top that," Rule explains, "[my mother] introduced me to a serial killer when I was fourteen." The reader is invited to skip ahead to learn about that chilling episode...but the pages prior to that offer their own gripping, spell-binding encounters.
Download or read book Turning Home written by Paul F. Eno and published by New River Press (RI). This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are you? Where will you go when you die? Where are your loved ones who already have? Who is God? Why are we the way we are? Why is God the way God is? Is there a God? In this astounding, information-packed book, an award-winning journalist, seminary graduate and 35-year paranormal investigator offers answers that could transform your life, and maybe the whole world.
Download or read book Cary Grant s Suit written by Todd McEwen and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cinematic memoir and critical exploration of nine classics of old Hollywood by a contemporary comic novelist. “North by Northwest isn’t about what happens to Cary Grant, it’s about what happens to his suit. The suit has the adventures, a gorgeous New York suit threading its way through America. The suit, Cary inside it, strides with confidence into the Plaza Hotel. Nothing bad happens to it until one of the greasy henchmen grasps Cary by the shoulder. We’re already in love with this suit and it feels like a real violation.” Todd McEwen grew up in Southern California, so his head was hopelessly messed with by the movies. As the son of relatively normal people, Todd had no in with Hollywood, a mere thirteen miles away, yearn and try as he might. This is a kid who loved the movies so much, he got up at 4:30 in the morning to watch Laurel and Hardy. A kid who insisted on his birthday that his father project 8mm cartoons onto the family’s dining room curtains so they could be slowly parted, just like at a real cinema. This is a kid who liked to leave the movie and trudge up hundreds of dangerous iron steps to visit the lugubrious and always surprised projectionist. This is a kid who, years later, watched Chinatown over 60 times. A love letter to old Hollywood, this is a book for anyone interested in film. Movies discussed include Blotto, The Wizard of Oz, The Three Stooges, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest, The 39 Steps, The Trouble with Harry, and many, many more.
Download or read book The Amityville Horror written by Jay Anson and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times)—the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property—complete with boathouse and swimming pool—and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror. This is the spellbinding, shocking true story that gripped the nation about an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining—“this book will scare the hell out of you” (Kansas City Star).
Download or read book Midlife Humanity s Secret Weapon written by Andrew Jamieson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical new take on one of humanity's most misunderstood periods of transition: the midlife crisis. Only two species of mammal have a post-reproductive life that lasts longer than their reproductive life: killer whales, whose elders are able to sniff out food supplies over vast oceanic distances to keep their pods fed, and Homo sapiens. While the evolutionary purpose of the killer whale’s extensive life seems clear, what is the point of ours? This was a question that intrigued the psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who observed that if a culture is to maintain its deepest, profoundest roots while moving forward to embrace the challenges of historical and technological change, it needs to find an equilibrium between the energy, vigor, and creativity of those in the ego-driven first half of life and the experience, dignity, and wisdom of those in the second. But to make it to that second half of life, we need to traverse the dreaded middle years, when so many of us find ourselves discontented with our jobs, unhappy in our relationships, and lamenting our fetishized youths. In this highly readable and groundbreaking new book, the psychoanalyst Andrew Jamieson examines the Jungian concept of the midlife crisis to show how it is an essential evolutionary and social rite of passage that we all must proceed through—a set of challenges that we either take advantage of or ignore, depending on whether our complex or neurosis blocks this developmental impulse. Drawing on history, psychology, science, and literature, Jamieson shows just how ubiquitous, and crucial, the “midlife crisis” is, and the devastating consequences for society at large if we continue to regard it as something we can, and should, avoid.
Download or read book Ghostly Encounters written by Suzanne Garbe and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes several types of ghostly encounters and relates stories that involve each type"--Provided by publisher.
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 Swamped by Ghosts written by J. Katherine Till and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in this book actually happened and is portrayed according to the recollection of those involved. Many unusual things have occurred in my family, and some of them are of a paranormal origin. All of them took place in the marshy lands of southern Louisiana, thus giving the title of the book, Swamped by Ghosts, two meanings. I did not intend to write this book. I initially wrote some ghost stories to put in a genealogy book that I was writing about my family, but then I realized that there were enough ghost stories to create a separate book—which eventually became the first printing of my book, Haunted House of the Rising Sun. This book was composed of stories about a beautiful mansion in the New Orleans area that I lived in with my first husband and our two children. What started out as a dream come true became more like a nightmare, as we witnessed hauntings almost every day of the four years we lived there. People who enjoyed reading Haunted House of the Rising Sun asked if I had other ghost stories. Without knowing this, my brother Joseph Adair and then my cousin Nora Jewell both suggested that I write a book about our childhood experiences. This inspired me to write the book you are now reading, Swamped by Ghosts. Ghost encounters of other family members have also been included in this book. Some of the stories in both of these books are funny, a few seem unbelievable, and several are downright frightening—but all of them are true. So sit back and try to relax as you share this journey with me through incredible accounts of the supernatural.
Download or read book 50 Real Ghost Stories 2 written by M. J. Wayland and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to Amazon's best-selling Supernatural book - "50 Real Ghost Stories" Paranormal researcher and author MJ Wayland compiles another fifty REAL LIFE ghost experiences direct from the witnesses themselves! For his final compilation he has collected some of the strangest, scariest and most unnerving ghost stories ever published. Stories include: GHOST IN THE WOODS THE HOODED FIGURE THE FARNWORTH GHOST BRIDE SOUTHEND HAUNTED HOTEL THE SHADOW MEN THE CRASH WATCHER THE GHOST OF GIBBET LANE WHITTINGTON COMMON GHOST MIDLAND HOTEL, MORECAMBE THE RIVOCK EDGE GHOST THE OLD BARN GHOST THE BREWERY HAUNTING HAUNTED HOUSE IN NEWFOUNDLAND OXFORD STREET GHOST WESTBOURNE HOUSE HOTEL HORROR AT HUNDRED HOUSE HOTEL PELSALL ROAD GHOST HILLBANK HOTEL AND ARROWE PARK HAUNTINGS GHOSTS OF HANGMAN'S HILL, EPPING FOREST GHOST OF THE CHAPEL A GHOST ATTACKED MY BROTHER BERWICK'S HAUNTED HOUSE REG HAS RETURNED THE OLD VICTORIAN HOUSE EERIE WELSH MOUNTAIN HOME TWO YEARS IN A HAUNTED FLAT FINSBURY PARK GHOST A12 ROAD GHOST A MEDIUM'S FRIGHT OUR STRANGE HOLIDAY M62 ROAD GHOST MOSS VALLEY GHOST GRANTHAM ROAD GHOST WRINSTEAD COURT FEELINGS CHALLENGING THE DEVIL MY GHOST IS CALLED FRED MY EXPERIENCES AS A SECURITY GUARD GHOST OF THE TOWER THE HAUNTED BED AND MORE!
Download or read book Haunting Experiences written by Diane Goldstein and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Download or read book Ghosts by Gaslight written by Jack Dann and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear! Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts in the machine, fateful revelations, gaslit streets scarcely keeping the dark at bay, and other twisted variations on the immortal classics that frighten us still.
Download or read book Wait Till Helen Comes written by Mary Downing Hahn and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse. But they do—when Helen comes.
Download or read book Ghost Encounters written by Robert C. Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Ghost Stories, Strange Paranormal Reports And Terrifying True Ghost Stories That Will make you think twice about turning out the lights! Chilling stories, mind-boggling events, and paranormal events... We frequently hear them from the television, and can get a little terrified. Though they do not happen, everyone, spirits are real and it is scary to know how people can become continuously troubled by them. Perhaps your house is an ancient building, or your school is a former cemetery. Maybe someone you know can feel and see otherworldly entities? Look around you...do you remember a moment when you heard a crying sound from the attic when you are alone at night? Or maybe your chairs move without your assistance. When the lights flicker and the wind is chilling, you may consider the possibility that you aren't alone? The stories included in this book vary: from MYSTERY OF THE COINS, GHOSTS IN CONNECTICUT, and AN APPARITION AND DEATH are just a few stories you will read about. Warning: these are real ghost stories and encounters. They will leave you quivering with fear. We suggest that you read with the lights on. If you enjoy reading about real true stories grab yourself a copy and your friends as well.
Download or read book Maynard s House written by Herman Raucher and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-05-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Told with icy precision of eye and ear and a wink of wicked humor . . . First-rate haunted-house creepiness” from the bestselling author of Summer of ’42 (Kirkus Reviews). Austin Fletcher, a disturbed young Vietnam War vet, is willed a small house deep in the woods of northern Maine. He comes to own it by the generosity of a brother-in-arms—a fellow soldier and confidante, Maynard Whittier, killed in action by a wayward mortar shell. The rugged landscape of Maine is an intoxicating blend of claustrophobic interiors and endless frozen wastelands. Little by little, the mysterious force in the house asserts itself until Austin isn’t exactly sure what is in his mind and what is real. And just when our hero’s had enough and is ready to quit the place, a blizzard arrives and the real haunting begins. “An unsettling experience . . . Confounding, touching and well-written.” —The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book True Tales of Ghostly Encounters written by Andrew Honigman and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FATE magazine has published thousands of ghost stories, true experiences of ordinary people who have had extraordinary encounters with the hereafter. Compiled and edited by Andrew Honigman, this collection features the best of these chilling, bizarre, and heartwarming tales. These detailed accounts of messages, gifts, blessings, and assistance from the spirit world provide remarkable proof of life after death.
