Highgate Cemetery

Author : Allison Rushby
Publisher : Walker Books Australia
ISBN 13 : 1925381439
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turnkey written by Allison Rushby and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and mystery wrapped in a thrilling supernatural plot, The Turnkey is perfect for kids aged 9+. Flossie Birdwhistle is the Turnkey at London's Highgate Cemetery. As Turnkey, Flossie must ensure all the souls in the cemetery stay at rest. This is a difficult job at the best of times for a twelve-year-old ghost, but it is World War II and each night enemy bombers hammer London. Even the dead are unsettled. When Flossie encounters the ghost of a German soldier carrying a mysterious object, she becomes suspicious. What is he up to? Before long, Flossie uncovers a sinister plot that could result in the destruction of not only her cemetery, but also her beloved country. Can Flossie stop him before it is too late?

Author : Marie-Therese Mäder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783848752775
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highgate Cemetery written by Marie-Therese Mäder and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der beruhmte in viktorianischer Zeit als Park gestaltete Friedhof von Highgate in London regt seit uber 150 Jahren die Imagination der Menschen an. Der Sammelband untersucht die Performativitat vergangener und gegenwartiger Bildpraktiken in und um Highgate im Kontext von Religion und Gesellschaft.

Author : Constance-Anne Parker
Publisher : Hurtwood Press
ISBN 13 : 9780903696340
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highgate Cemetery written by Constance-Anne Parker and published by Hurtwood Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographed on a snowy day in 2009, the featured images - some 60 in number - capture just some of the magic and romance of the West Cemetery. Broad landscapes panoramas are punctuated by detailed studies of memorials, making the need for verbal commentary unnecessary.Fellow photographer David Bailey introduces the collection, commenting - John, with his obsession for the romantic, is the perfect person to document this extraordinary place with his camera, adding another chapter to the living history of a place for the dead .

Author : Sean Manchester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781872486017
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Highgate Vampire written by Sean Manchester and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Della Farrant
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095874X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Highgate written by Della Farrant and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by paranormal investigator Della Farrant, this new book contains a chilling range of spooky tales from around Highgate. From haunted public houses and private homes taken over by malevolent poltergeists to a top-hatted fiend who hisses at passers-by and the ‘vampire’ sightings of the 1970s at Highgate’s world-famous cemetery, this collection of ghostly goings-on is sure to appeal to everyone interested in North London’s supernatural residents.Richly illustrated, Haunted Highgate is the ideal guide for anyone who wishes to delve deeper into the area’s mysterious history.

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101174897
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling Angels written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives—wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son—Falling Angels is graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review).

Author : Gian Luca Amadei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000521516
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London written by Gian Luca Amadei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Victorian cemeteries were the direct result of the socio-cultural, economic and political context of the city, and were part of a unique transformation process that emerged in London at the time. The book shows how the re-ordering of the city’s burial spaces, along with the principles of health and hygiene, were directly associated with liberal capital investments, which had consequences in the spatial arrangement of London. Victorian cemeteries, in particular, were not only a solution for overcrowded graveyards, they also acted as urban generators in the formation London’s suburbs in the nineteenth century. Beginning with an analysis of the conditions that triggered the introduction of the early Victorian cemeteries in London, this book investigates their spatial arrangement, aesthetics and functions. These developments are illustrated through the study of three private Victorian burial sites: Kensal Green Cemetery, Highgate Cemetery and Brookwood Cemetery. The book is aimed at students and researchers of London history, planning and environment, and Victorian and death culture studies.

Author : Matthew Beresford
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897421
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Demons to Dracula written by Matthew Beresford and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In blood-soaked lore handed down the centuries, the vampire is a monster of endless fascination: from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this seductive lover of blood haunts popular culture and inhabits our darkest imaginings. The cultural history of the vampire is a rich and varied tale that is now ably documented in From Demons to Dracula, a compelling study of the vampire myth that reveals why this creature of the undead fascinates us so. Beresford’s chronicle roams from the mountains of Eastern Europe to the foggy streets of Victorian England to Hollywood, as he investigates the portrayal of the vampire in history, literature, and art. Opening with the original Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, and his status as a national hero in Romania, he endeavors to winnow out truths from the complex legend and folklore. From Demons to Dracula tracks the evolution of the vampire as an icon and supernatural creature, drawing on classical Greek and Roman myths, witch trials and medieval plagues, Gothic literature, and even contemporary works such as Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian. Beresford also looks at the widespread impact of screen vampires from television shows, classic movies starring Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, and more recent films such as Underworld and Blade. Whether as a demon of the underworld or a light-fearing hunter of humans, the vampire has endured through the centuries, the book reveals, as powerfully symbolic figure for human concerns with life, death, and the afterlife. A wide-ranging and engrossing chronicle, From Demons to Dracula casts this blood-thirsty nightstalker as a remarkably complex and telling totem of our nightmares, real and imagined.

Author : Allison Rushby
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763699241
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turnkey of Highgate Cemetery written by Allison Rushby and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Flossie is no ordinary ghost — she’s the caretaker of every soul in Highgate Cemetery. And during World War II, even the ghosts are unsafe. Flossie Birdwhistle is the Turnkey at London’s Highgate Cemetery. As Turnkey, it’s Flossie’s job to ensure that all the souls buried in the cemetery stay at rest. Not an easy job for a young ghost, but a task made especially difficult by World War II: London is being attacked every night by enemy bombers, and even the dead are unsettled. When Flossie encounters the ghost of a German soldier carrying a mysterious object that seems to exist in both the living and spirit worlds, she becomes suspicious — what is the officer up to? Before long, Flossie uncovers a sinister plot that could destroy not only her cemetery, but also her beloved country. Can Flossie and her ghostly friends stop the soldier before it’s too late? History collides with the supernatural in this exciting, ethereal mystery from Allison Rushby.

Author : Vaughn Entwistle
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 178329535X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angel of Highgate written by Vaughn Entwistle and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “NOTHING LESS THAN THE WICKEDEST MAN IN LONDON…” It is October 1859, and notorious philanderer Lord Geoffrey Thraxton cares for nothing except his own amusement. After humiliating an odious literary critic and surviving the resulting duel, he boasts of his contempt for mortality, and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will come to regret. When Thraxton becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who appears to him one fog-shrouded night in Highgate Cemetery, he unwittingly provides the doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death…