Haunted Hallways

Author : Elizabeth Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Halls written by Elizabeth Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many American college students tell stories about encounters with ghosts? In Haunted Halls, the first book-length interpretive study of college ghostlore, Elizabeth Tucker takes the reader back to school to get acquainted with a wide range of college spirits. Some of the best-known ghosts that she discusses are Emory University\'s Dooley, who can disband classes by shooting professors with his water pistol; Mansfield Uni-versity\'s Sara, who threw herself down a flight of stairs after being rejected by her boyfriend; and Huntingdon College\'s Red Lady, who slit her wrists while dressed in a red robe. Gettysburg College students have collided with ghosts of soldiers, while students at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College have reported frightening glimpses of the Faceless Nun. Tucker presents campus ghostlore from the mid-1960s to 2006, with special attention to stories told by twenty-first-century students through e-mail and instant messages. Her approach combines social, psychological, and cultural analysis, with close attention to students\' own explanations of the significance of spectral phenomena. As metaphors of disorder, insanity, and school spirit, college ghosts convey multiple meanings. Their colorful stories warn students about the dangers of overindulgence, as well as the pitfalls of potentially horrifying relationships. Besides offering insight into students\' initiation into campus life, college ghost stories make important statements about injustices suffered by Native Americans, African Americans, and others. Elizabeth Tucker is associate professor of English at Binghamton University. She is the author of Campus Legends: A Handbook and has published widely in folklore journals.

Author : Corinne May Botz
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580932916
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Houses written by Corinne May Botz and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When I was between the ages of five and eight, my sister and I slept in a large attic bedroom. At nightfall the room was filled with gypsies who glided around in clusters. They wore colorful thin flowing dresses and rummaged greedily through my drawers and books as if they would steal everything. I lay in bed as stiff as a board, trying to will myself invisible, praying they would not notice me looking . . . Daylight obliterated the gypsies, rendering them as thoroughly insubstantial as they had been real in the dark. I had a vague understanding that my vision was private, so I never told my family what I saw.” So began Corinne May Botz’s fascination with the invisible, a phenomenon that has profoundly influenced her approach to photography in style and subject matter. For more than ten years, she searched for ghost stories in buildings across the United States. She ventured into these haunted places with both camera and tape recorder in hand; her photographs, accompanied by first-person narratives, reveal a rare glimpse into American interiors, both physical and psychological. This book includes more than eighty haunted buildings, from the legendary to the ordinary, including Edgar Allan Poe’s house in Baltimore, a New Jersey tavern, and a Massachusetts farmhouse, a log cabin in Kentucky, and a number of private residences. The text includes ghost stories told to the author by those who lived through the moving rugs, creaking floors, apparitions, disappearing—and reappearing—objects, cries in the night, mysteriously burning candles, and other unexplained occurrences.

Author : Bill Martin
Publisher : Holt McDougal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : William Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813122274
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky written by William Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2001-09-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of "Ghosts Across Kentucky" now presents an all-new collection of amazing ghost stories of the state.

Author : Lenore Lost
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491707577
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Hallways written by Lenore Lost and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come. Take me by the hand and walk with me. Together we will explore horrible secrets and terrible truths. It will be a dark and thrilling trip into some very scary places. You will meet a young boy whose tragic death earns him an invitation to the greatest party of the year. You will find yourself in a world where an eleven year old girl can't stop grieving the loss of her beloved pet until late one night she bears witness to an unspeakable atrocity that finally eases her pain. You might sympathize with a neglected child so desperate for attention he takes matters into his own hands by casting a spell on his sister's favorite toy. For those of you that may be thinking that these tales are for young readers only, you're DEAD wrong. I promise a disquieting scare for all horror fans. You may forever see the world in a different light. A dark light. Where sunshine chills your flesh to the bone and moonlight guides the path toward your greatest desires. Are you ready? It is time to take our fateful journey down the many profound and mysterious roads that are these Haunted Hallways. Lenore Lost

Author : Lenore Lost
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491707585
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Hallways written by Lenore Lost and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come. Take me by the hand and walk with me. Together we will explore horrible secrets and terrible truths. It will be a dark and thrilling trip into some very scary places. You will meet a young boy whose tragic death earns him an invitation to the greatest party of the year. You will find yourself in a world where an eleven year old girl cant stop grieving the loss of her beloved pet until late one night she bears witness to an unspeakable atrocity that finally eases her pain. You might sympathize with a neglected child so desperate for attention he takes matters into his own hands by casting a spell on his sisters favorite toy. For those of you that may be thinking that these tales are for young readers only, youre DEAD wrong. I promise a disquieting scare for all horror fans. You may forever see the world in a different light. A dark light. Where sunshine chills your flesh to the bone and moonlight guides the path toward your greatest desires. Are you ready? It is time to take our fateful journey down the many profound and mysterious roads that are these Haunted Hallways. Lenore Lost

Author : Daniel Diehl
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811705994
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Houses written by Daniel Diehl and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 175 haunted houses profiled. Information on visiting. Stories of ghosts and hauntings.

Author : Elizabeth Tucker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604733179
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Halls written by Elizabeth Tucker and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many American college students tell stories about encounters with ghosts? In Haunted Halls, the first book-length interpretive study of college ghostlore, Elizabeth Tucker takes the reader back to school to get acquainted with a wide range of college spirits. Some of the best-known ghosts that she discusses are Emory University\'s Dooley, who can disband classes by shooting professors with his water pistol; Mansfield Uni-versity\'s Sara, who threw herself down a flight of stairs after being rejected by her boyfriend; and Huntingdon College\'s Red Lady, who slit her wrists while dressed in a red robe. Gettysburg College students have collided with ghosts of soldiers, while students at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College have reported frightening glimpses of the Faceless Nun. Tucker presents campus ghostlore from the mid-1960s to 2006, with special attention to stories told by twenty-first-century students through e-mail and instant messages. Her approach combines social, psychological, and cultural analysis, with close attention to students\' own explanations of the significance of spectral phenomena. As metaphors of disorder, insanity, and school spirit, college ghosts convey multiple meanings. Their colorful stories warn students about the dangers of overindulgence, as well as the pitfalls of potentially horrifying relationships. Besides offering insight into students\' initiation into campus life, college ghost stories make important statements about injustices suffered by Native Americans, African Americans, and others.

Author : Paul Meehan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638209
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haunted House on Film written by Paul Meehan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular phenomenon since antiquity, the image of the haunted house is one that has translated elegantly into the modern medium of film. The haunted house transcends genre, appearing in mysteries, gothic romances, comedies and horror films. This book is the first comprehensive historical and critical study of themes surrounding haunted houses in film. Covering more than 100 films, it spans from the Mystery House thrillers of the silent era to the high-tech, big budget productions of the 21st Century. Included are the works of such acclaimed directors as D.W. Griffith, Robert Wise, Mario Bava, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton and Guillermo Del Toro. The book also covers the real-life "haunted house" phenomenon and movies based on paranormal case files, including those featured in films like the Conjuring series.

Author : Jarrett Dapier
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647008670
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Haunted House in America written by Jarrett Dapier and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking, spooky-fun trip through the most haunted home in America: the White House! It was late October, the moon was pale, late in October when it came by mail: a letter, a missive, a kind invitation to drum at THE MOST HAUNTED HOUSE IN THE NATION! When the Skeleton Drummers receive an invitation from the First Lady to perform at the biggest Halloween party of a lifetime—or afterlife—the band must pack their instruments, rise from the earth, and prepare to rock the White House. With gusto and bone-rattling beats, the skeletons BOOM! BANG! and CLANG! as the crowd of trick-or-treaters dance on the president's lawn. But when the party moves inside, something's not quite right: there's a chill in the air and a prickle of fright. There's one thing you might not know: The White House is haunted from top to toe! With rhyming, rhythmic text from Jarrett Dapier and wonderfully macabre illustrations from Lee Gatlin, this musical tour of America's most famous home is full of spooky surprises at every turn.