Ghosts on the Cumberland: Frights and Tales from the Dark Waters
Title | Ghosts on the Cumberland: Frights and Tales from the Dark Waters PDF eBook |
Author | John Leslie Oliver |
Publisher | Deep Read Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-08-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781954989337 |
Over the years, those living along the banks of the Cumberland River in Kentucky and Tennessee have had many encounters with what they believed were ghosts. In this book, John Leslie Oliver presents more than two dozen of these delightfully frightful ghost stories in his own unique way. Additionally, he augments several of them with his original drawings. If you like good ghost stories, you will love this book.
Haunting Experiences
Title | Haunting Experiences PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Goldstein |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2007-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0874216818 |
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Hanging the Macon County Witch
Title | Hanging the Macon County Witch PDF eBook |
Author | C. L. Gammon |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2015-07-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781514829578 |
Hanging the Macon County Witch is a true story. The hanging outlined in this book really took place in Lafayette, Tennessee in the late spring of 1845. This bizarre story follows a slave woman named Lize - who claims to be a witch by the way - from the time Wilson Meador purchased her, until the Macon County Sheriff hanged her. This story has several weird twists and turns, including Lize trading her own head to a local doctor for ginger cakes and hard cider. Truth is stranger than fiction and this true story is as strange as they come!
All Souls' Night
Title | All Souls' Night PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Walpole |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2022-08-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "All Souls' Night" by Hugh Walpole. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Traditions of Belief
Title | Traditions of Belief PDF eBook |
Author | Gillian Bennett |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Treasure Island
Title | Treasure Island PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Haunted Indiana 4
Title | Haunted Indiana 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Marimen |
Publisher | Haunted Indiana |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781933272054 |
Haunted Indiana 4 delves once more into the eerie side of Indiana history with new and old tales from across the state: * The spirit of America's most prolific female serial killer who is said to haunt her former home in La Porte; * The ghost of a grave robber said to walk the paths of a cemetery in New Albany; * A ghost town near Nashville that truly lives up to the term "Ghost Town;" * The gentle story of a grandfather's spirit who made a phone call from beyond the grave to aid his granddaughter when she needed it most; * Tales of enigmatic spirits of former prisoners who are serving a "more than life" sentence at the Old Jail Museum in Valparaiso; * A series of ghostly tales told within the ranks of the police from across the state; and many more. . .Also included in Haunted Indiana 4 is an audio CD narrated by Mark Marimen with four stories - including one never before published.