Download or read book The Haunted Land written by Tina Rosenberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Download or read book A Demon Haunted Land written by Monica Black and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Demon-Haunted Land is absorbing, gripping, and utterly fascinating... Beautifully written, without even a hint of jargon or pretension, it casts a significant and unexpected new light on the early phase of the Federal Republic of Germany’s history. Black’s analysis of the copious, largely unknown archival sources on which the book is based is unfailingly subtle and intelligent.” —Richard J. Evans, The New Republic In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault, and even murder. What linked these events, in the wake of an annihilationist war and the Holocaust, was a widespread preoccupation with evil. While many histories emphasize Germany’s rapid transition from genocidal dictatorship to liberal democracy, A Demon-Haunted Land places in full view the toxic mistrust, profound bitterness, and spiritual malaise that unfolded alongside the economic miracle. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, acclaimed historian Monica Black argues that the surge of supernatural obsessions stemmed from the unspoken guilt and shame of a nation remarkably silent about what was euphemistically called “the most recent past.” This shadow history irrevocably changes our view of postwar Germany, revealing the country’s fraught emotional life, deep moral disquiet, and the cost of trying to bury a horrific legacy.
Download or read book Ghostland written by Colin Dickey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places--and deep into the dark side of our history.
Download or read book Haunted Ground written by Erin Hart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dazzling, award-winning debut in a series that delivers mystery, romance, suspense, and fascinating forensic detail. When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery—the perfectly preserved head of a young woman with long red hair—Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence. Because the bog’s watery, acidic environment prevents decay, it’s difficult to tell how long the red-haired girl has been buried—two years, two centuries, or even much longer. Who is she? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. The red-haired girl is not the only enigma in this remote corner of Galway. Two years earlier, Mina Osborne, the wife of a local landowner, went for a walk with her young son and vanished without a trace. Could they, too, be hidden in the bog’s treacherous depths, only to be discovered centuries from now? Or did Hugh Osborne murder his family, as some villagers suspect? Bracklyn House, Osborne’s stately home, holds many secrets, and Nora and Cormac's inquiries threaten to expose them all.
Download or read book Haunted Property written by Sarah Gilbreath Ford and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize At the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such as ghosts and haunted houses, to portray the horrors of this nightmare. Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic thus reimagines the southern gothic, which has too often been simply equated with the macabre or grotesque and then dismissed as regional. Although literary critics have argued that the American gothic is driven by the nation’s history of racial injustice, what is missing in this critical conversation is the key role of property. Ford argues that out of all of slavery’s perils, the definition of people as property is the central impetus for haunting because it allows the perpetration of all other terrors. Property becomes the engine for the white accumulation of wealth and power fueled by the destruction of black personhood. Specters often linger, however, to claim title, and Ford argues that haunting can be a bid for property ownership. Through examining works by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Sherley Anne Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey, Ford reveals how writers can use the gothic to combat legal possession with spectral possession.
Download or read book The Dynamite Book of Ghosts and Haunted Houses written by Margaret Ronan and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe in ghosts? "Dynamite," today's most popular kids' magazine has dug up these true stories about unexplained happenings. Includes a guide to haunted houses you can visit.
Download or read book A Haunted Land written by Bob Curran and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirits of the dead return in many shapes and in many locations in Ireland. There are the wraith-like ghosts and the full-bodied type, the dangerous and damaging, the threatening and the merely frightening. There are notorious buildings where down through the centuries spectres have been seen or heard, some, such as Leap Castle, where psychics have been overwhelmed by the intensity of the atmosphere. There are families pursued by spirits who warn them of impending death or seem to be trying to get back at them for some long-forgotten wrongdoing. Here are stories and details of the amazing variety of hauntings to be experienced throughout the country.
Download or read book I m Not Afraid of this Haunted House written by Laurie B. Friedman and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Lester Henry Strauss is not in the least afraid of any haunted house, but there is something else that terrifies him.
Download or read book Journey Through a Haunted Land written by Amos Elon and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunted Houses Around the World written by Joan Axelrod-Contrada and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit some of the spookiest houses around the world. Prepare to be scared as you visit haunted mansions and ghostly residence.
Download or read book Index of Haunted Houses written by Adam O. Davis and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet we gradually become aware of their presence the way spirits in haunted houses trod over creaky floors, slam doors, and issue sudden gusts of wind. The poems are Koan-like—the fewer the words, the more charged they are. The engine driving this sense of haunting and loss is money, which Davis describes as “federal bone” boiling around us. Bison in Nebraska are reduced to bones, “seven/standing men/tall” fodder for the fertilizer used by farmers in the 1800s. Though they often specify dates, there’s an equality to the hauntings—every instance has its moment, and persists, despite being in the past, present, or future. If there really was a 1980 or 1848 or 1499, Davis implies it is somewhere. Index of Haunted Houses is spooky and sad—a stunning debut, one that will surprise, convince, and most of all, delight.
Download or read book America s Most Proclaimed Haunted Places written by London Knight and published by Old Line Pub Llc. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever sat up late at night and seen something just out of the corner of your eye? Turning to look, do you find nothing there? Have you heard your name being called out by a loved one that isn't home? Witnessed doors that mysteriously open and close on their own? What about footsteps approaching, only to turn and find emptiness echoing aloud? Every year, thousands tell the stories of their personal accounts of ghostly hauntings. Are they just that: stories? Or is there something else, lurking outside the boundaries of what we call reality. From the famous Amityville house to the tragic case of Murder Ridge, do the murders that took place there tell the whole story? Or do the dead hang on, struggling to share their voice with the willing and the ones that seek to learn? Take my hand and come with me into a world where the dead themselves speak to the tragedy of a life lost to time. The evidence is all here within the pages of this book. It's up to you to decide if you choose to believe.
Download or read book Haunted Houses of Britain and Ireland written by Richard Jones and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrepid ghost-hunter Richard Jones reveals the most haunted houses in Britain and Ireland and uncovers the most spectre-infested dwellings in the land. Packed with spooky photographs this book sends shivers down your spine.
Download or read book The Haunted House written by Bill Martin and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1970 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunted house is explored.
Download or read book This Haunted Land written by Nancy Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunted Houses of Harpers Ferry written by Stephen Dorman Brown and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of ghosts and other supernatural phenomena in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Download or read book This Haunted Land written by Nancy Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
