Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorians Ancestors, Paperback - Jan Bondeson

DescriptionThis book makes use of a privately held archive of Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre, and uncanny episodes from the V...

The ghoulish handiwork of nineteenth-century London - the rivals of the Ripper.Illustrations: 171 Illustrations, black and white

One of the most notorious Victorian murders was committed by Dr George Henry Lamson, who stood trial in 1882 for poisoning his crippled brother-in-...

Reducere. What's that Scripture mean? Ever asked yourself this question when you're reading through the Bible? We all have. Whether we've been saved a long t...

Welcome to the wonderfully weird World War Two... The Second World War was the bloodiest on record. It was the first total war in history when civi...

Reducere. This text exaimines the medical, historical and folklore literature on the subject of being buried alive and explores why fears of premature burial...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unex...

Reducere. The third and final volume of our Kaiki series returns us to the Capital City: Tokyo. While Japan has modernized, renaming old Edo as new-born Toky...

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th ce...

Chronicles of the Strange and Uncanny in Florida explores the unknown for those who wish to look beyond the confines of everyday life to discover t...

Reducere. The essential strange fiction of Catherine CroweCatherine Ann Stevens was born in Kent in 1803 and in common with many English young ladies of her ...

Reducere. What lurks beneath the waves, and onboard the most mysterious of ships?Get ready to experience the lore and lure of the sea with these myths, legen...

Reducere. From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend ...

Reducere. Among the Pacific Northwest's many treasures is the Evergreen State, a state rich in eerie events. Haunted Washington, a collection of stories of g...

Publisher: Hikoki PublicationsAuthor(s): Capt Eric BrownIllustration(s): Over 120 photographs plus 20 colour drawingsNumber of pages: 288Publicatio...

Publisher: Gomer PressAuthor(s): Daniel MordenNumber of pages: 64Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 209 x 149 x 4Cover type: Paperback / softbackIll...

Reducere. What lurks beneath the waves, and onboard the most mysterious of ships?Get ready to experience the lore and lure of the sea with these myths, legen...

Jewels from Our Ancestors: A Book of African Proverbs is a short, illustrated literary collection of words of wisdom from the continent of Africa. ...

Reducere. Heart Seeds - a message from the ancestors is a collection of stories that help the reader experience the kind of thought and protocols of awarenes...

With the amazing biodiversity on our planet, isn't it time we started celebrating - and crocheting - some of life's more unusual creatures? In this...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Introduction by: Masao HigashiPreface by: Robert WeinbergJapan has a long history of weird and supernatural literature, but it has ...

As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. Waiting in the shadowy streets are...

When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with t...

Reducere. Brace yourself for a journey into a creepy, dark side of the American Midwest you thought you knew--a side teeming with real-life surrealism and hi...

Woods play an important role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't se...

The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith is an engrossing insight into the suffocating world of Victorian women and the great divide between social cl...

A light-hearted, intimate and emphatically feminist history of dating, from Jane Austen to TinderPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Nich...

This new collection of fifteen short stories, six folk tales and four poems ranging from 1789 to 1933 offers a chilling literary tour of the coasts...

DescriptionNow in paperback, this beautifully written and gorgeously produced book describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

From dragons to ghouls, from Scotland to South Africa, this volume collects traditional monster tales from around the world in a covetable, illustr...

Beneath California's scenic landscape lies a strange and dark side, full of spine-tingling tales and frightful imagery. Creepy California: Strange ...

Reducere. Published in cooperation with the American Library Association, an insider's look at one of the most prevalent, yet commonly misunderstood institut...

Reducere. A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of hu...

Reducere. The well-known story of the seven days of creation is not a religious parable. It is historical documentation-a narrative not of humankind's concep...

Performing a deft metaphorical evisceration of Sigmund Freud's classic 1919 essay that delved deeply into the tradition of horror writing, this fre...

Strange happenings, unsolved mysteries and seemingly supernatural events have gripped us for centuries. Whether they're based on a grain of truth o...