Haunted Homeland: A Definitive Collection of North American Ghost StoriesMacmillan, 19 de set. 2006 - 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. |
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Authors Note | 15 |
UNITED STATES | 17 |
1 THE LADY IN BLUE | 19 |
2 ALONG THE SPECTRAL TRAIL | 32 |
3 WATCH OUT BELOW | 44 |
4 SOULS IN TORMENT | 52 |
5 THE BECKONERS | 69 |
13 DISTURBING DEEDS | 274 |
14 THE HOUSE ON HANGING HILL | 297 |
15 GRAVE SECRETS | 311 |
16 TERRIBLE TILLIE | 316 |
17 GHOSTS ALONG THE PECOS | 324 |
18 THE UNINVITED | 339 |
19 THE WIDE ROST OF GREENBRIER West Virhginia | 350 |
20 KINDRED SPIRITS | 365 |
6 OLD DEG | 78 |
7 GONE WITH THE MIST | 91 |
8 BLEAK ROADS | 125 |
9 BETTER LEFT UNSAID | 155 |
HAUNTS OF IVY | 174 |
10 A STATELY PRESENCE | 232 |
11 FIND MY BONES | 242 |
12 THE WEEPING WOMAN | 267 |
CANADA | 385 |
21 WANDERERS | 387 |
22 RARELY SEEN | 399 |
23 THE UNPLEASANT DEAD | 407 |
Selected Bibliography | 433 |
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