Haunted Homeland: A Definitive Collection of North American Ghost Stories

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Tor Publishing Group, 1 d’abr. 2007 - 448 pàgines

Trapped miners from cave-ins long ago still calling for help.
Ghostly women lurking in the shadows of city streets.
Spectral holy men and outlaws from America's Spanish past making appearances in our modern age.

They are all citizens of Haunted America, and this is

HAUNTED HOMELAND.

From a haunted castle in the wilds of Alaska to phantom clergymen in the Southwest and mysterious bouncing lights on the East Coast, this latest volume covers the places, the people, and the things that belong to the earthbound realm of the fantastic. Michael Norman has gathered together spectral events of all kinds--apparitions of the famous like Mary Surratt, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Mad Anthony Wayne; haunted crime scenes in Chicago and along the Indiana byways; as well as banshees, poltergeists, and even a ghost named George who has become an accepted resident in a house in North Carolina.

Some of these tales date back to America's early days, such as the screaming woman of Marblehead, Massachusetts, while others rise from more contemporary sources, like noted mystery writer Mary Robert Rhinehart's encounter with ghost at a house on Long Island.

A ghostly Supreme Court Justice, a specter known as The Texan, an abandoned Canadian bride reminiscent of Dickens's Miss Haversham, and many others make an appearance in this latest chronicle of the Haunted American landscape.



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Continguts

THE LADY IN BLUE Alaska
3
ALONG THE SPECTRAL TRAIL
19
3
33
4
42
5
62
OLD DEG Kansas
71
GONE WITH THE MIST Maryland
86
BLEAK ROADS Massachusetts
126
13
296
14
323
Brown Mountain
336
TERRIBLE TILLY Oregon
345
GHOSTS ALONG THE PECOS Texas
354
THE UNINVITED Washington
372
THE WILD ROSE OF GREENBRIER West Virginia
384
KINDRED SPIRITS Wisconsin
401

BETTER LEFT UNSAID Michigan
160
HAUNTS OF
179
10
247
11
258
12
288
WANDERERS
429
A Close Shave Barkerville British Columbia
443
THE UNPLEASANT DEAD
452
Selected Bibliography
483
Index of Place Names
495

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Sobre l'autor (2007)

Michael Norman has taught at the University of Wisconsin in River Falls for more than twenty-five years. He collaborated with Beth Scott on the five previous books in the Haunted America series.

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