Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Western Culture, Paperback - Catherine Belsey

What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Goth...

DescriptionThe story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian ph...

Reducere. Our understanding of lycanthropy is limited by our association of it with contemporary portrayals of werewolves in horror films and gothic fiction....

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Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical t...

The member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European coun...

Reducere. These six classic tales of ghosts and hauntings, culled from Fantasmagoriana (1818), a German book that reputedly helped inspire Mary Shelley to pe...

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Reducere. As everyone knows, Southerners are great storytellers. Nowhere is this more evident than in Georgia, where dramatic history and larger-than-life pe...

Reducere. Enjoy this collection of Missouri's paranormal history. A young woman's fiery death leads her spirit to haunt the Missouri State University dormito...

Reducere. Airship pirates, mysterious inventions, and a treasure beyond compare? All in a duke's work.Chicago scrap metal mogul Clifford Kinsley has never en...

Scary True Tales Of Haunted Castles, Disturbing Forests, Haunted Houses And True Ghost Stories... Enter the Aokigahara forest without guidance and ...

Publisher: Ghost House PublishingAuthor(s): A.S. MottIllustration(s): 11 b/w illusNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 212 x 136 x...

This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of ...

Reducere. Appalachian Magazine's Mountain Superstitions, Ghost Stories & Haint Tales: A Collection of Memories & Commentaries from the Mountains of Appalachi...

Reducere. Haunted Buildings, Creepy Forests, Spooky Tales And Eerie True Ghost Stories From The Scariest Places On Earth Are you a self-confessed horror frea...

Reducere. The runes are said to have -revealed themselves- to von List, uncovering a complete cosmology and esoteric understanding of the primeval Teutonic/A...

A walking guide to 50 green lanesPublisher: Green BooksAuthor(s): Valerie BelseyIllustration(s): maps and line drawingsNumber of pages: 192Publicat...

Reducere. "The Awakening of the West" is an insightful and elegantly written history chronicling the developing relationship between Buddhism and Western cul...

This book traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. It draws on examples...

Reducere. 16 Western Short Stories for Multiple Aothers"Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys ...

Reducere. Civil War battlefields are the most hallowed stretches of land in America. And they're the most haunted pieces of ground. While it may come as no s...

M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also supe...

Reducere. From the German Romantics to the Beats and beyond: how the West has imagined IndiaIn 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published...

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Reducere. True Ghost Stories Of Haunted Asylums, Spooky Buildings And Creepy Tales Of The Worlds Most Haunted Places The sterile and cold environment of most...

Reducere. A rare collection of accounts of incidents and legends throughout the state - intriguing bits of the past generally not found in conventional works...

His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ruth Ann Musick" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hund...

This book explores the role of masculinity in shaping citizenship in the western world. Can the universal ideal of citizenship be redeemed or is it...