The Haunted History of the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Paperback - Sherri Brake

Reducere. Ice-pick Lobotomies * Straight Jackets * Seclusion Cells * Ice Water Baths Sound like a scene from a horror movie? Welcome to the 19th century asyl...

Reducere. Built on the site of a Civil War camp ravaged by disease, the Ohio State Reformatory first opened in 1896 to reform young offenders but eventually ...

Reducere. Afterlife with no parole. If you die in prison, your soul stays in prison. At least that's what many inmates believed. 998 murders and suicides com...

Reducere. DescriptionBuilt on the site of a Civil War camp ravaged by disease, the Ohio State Reformatory first opened in 1896 to reform young offenders but ...

Reducere. The first European settlers who crossed the Alleghenies in the 18th century had fascinating stories, braving the wilderness and surviving in harsh ...

Reducere. In the early 1800s, the Bell family of Robertson County, Tennessee, was preyed upon by a strange creature that also terrorized the community, tortu...

Voices and stories from the patients of Menston AsylumPublisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Mark DavisIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, unspec...

The book consists of an introduction to the asylum, and case studies of several of Broadmoor's more infamous and criminally insane residents of the...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the mid-1950s, a new genre of novelty music emerged that mixed humor and horror. The result: Monster Music Suddenly, jukeboxes were f...

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylums have changed and developed o...

Broadmoor Women tells the stories of seven women treated in Broadmoor Hospital: an asylum for criminal lunatics.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAut...

Reducere. During the early to mid-1800s, the railroad changed the transportation industry and dramatically impacted the nature of the American economy. Entir...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel--full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and ...

The epic story of the world's longest and greatest railway, as told by Britain's bestselling transport historian.

Reducere. Delaware's long history has created many ghostly echoes in the present day, places where the souls of the dead have not yet found rest. Experience ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward Shorter"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory andpractice into a compelling and coherent narrative ...

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Reducere. The story of businessman and engineer George Westinghouse is fascinating; his inventions revolutionized rail transport, and his pioneering distribu...

Reducere. Starting in 1911, and for many years, the Alberta Hospital Ponoka, or AHP, was the largest and highest-population psychiatric institution in the We...

Reducere. Creaks and groans in the night remind guests that they might not be alone in Vermont's inns. Discover the history behind some of the Green Mountain...

Reducere. From the neatly tended urban necropolis to the long-forgotten family plot at the end of a winding gravel road, these "quiet cities" of the Ozarks h...

DescriptionIn Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesth...

Reducere. Step across the threshold of a haunted hotel in California's renowned Gold Country and encounter phantom figures of yesteryear. Wispy apparitions o...

From the Native American tribes who first inhabited the land to the gold rush prospectors who flocked to the burgeoning town in the 1860s, Pocatell...

Reducere. As the saying goes, "dead men tell no tales." Or do they? From its humble beginnings as a Spanish settlement in 1691 to the bloody battle at the Al...

Reducere. There are few institutions in America that can claim that they have been servicing the needs of indigent children for over 185 years. Yet, Vanderhe...

Presents a memoir of a young historian, who was admitted in England's largest psychiatric institution, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late 1950s, Mario Bava helped to create and define the Italian horror film. His classic directorial works of the 1960s and 1970s,...

Reducere. This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preserva...

Asylums were first established to care for the unfortunates of society. It was only later they acquired a negative image. In Kentucky's First Asylu...