The Victorian Ghost Hunter's Casebook

The Victorian Ghost Hunter's Casebook
Title The Victorian Ghost Hunter's Casebook PDF eBook
Author Charles Dickens
Publisher
Pages 218
Release 2019-12-05
Genre History
ISBN 9781948084079

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Untraceable whispering voices.Gnome-like spirits who walk through walls.A room that glows with an eerie, life-draining light.Disembodied footsteps that climb stairs but never descend.A house with doors that open by themselves-even when locked.After a period of strong skepticism among writers and intellects regarding the reality of ghosts, the Victorian era (1837-1901) revitalized interest in seriously exploring houses and other locations alleged to be haunted. The paranormal investigators, including Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, chronicled their methods and discoveries. Equipped with little more than candles, patience, and perhaps a flask of brandy, these men and women laid a foundation for the ghost hunters of today.The Victorian Ghost Hunter's Casebook presents some of the most intriguing, most frightening, and most charming of the chronicles left behind. Ghostlore scholar Tim Prasil provides an Introduction about what motivated the Victorians to investigate spectral manifestations, along with the history of ghost hunters that preceded them. He also provides enlightening details on twelve ghostly cases located in Britain, and an Appendix with two more ghost hunts held in the United States during the Victorian era.

Ghost-Hunter's Casebook

Ghost-Hunter's Casebook
Title Ghost-Hunter's Casebook PDF eBook
Author Bowen Pearse
Publisher The History Press
Pages 189
Release 2011-10-24
Genre History
ISBN 075247412X

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Andrew Green, who died in 2004, was for sixty years one of Britain's most active and best-known ghost-hunters. The Daily Telegraph famously christened him 'the Spectre Inspector'. The author of best-sellers such as Our Haunted Kingdom and Ghost Hunting: a Practical Guide, he investigated hundreds of reported hauntings during his career, from famous cases such as 'the poltergeist girl of Battersea' to cases where a client had simply taken the wrong medication before bed. The most important cases from his lifetime of research are collected together in this volume - alongside new research and many reports that have never previously been published. This is an essential guide to the career of Britain's most famous ghost-hunter, and indeed to the paranormal history of ' our haunted kingdom'.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Title The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes PDF eBook
Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher Jaico Publishing House
Pages 215
Release 1989-01-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 8172247222

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Sherlock Holmes the gaunt, ascetic, ruthlessly logical pursuer of crime and mystery created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle needs no introduction. The adventures of this sharp, witty and moody detective alongwith his loveable pedantic and faithful friend Dr. Watson are a perennial source of inspiration to lovers of crime fiction. The book brings to you the criminal investigation of mysteries by master detective Sherlock Holmes.

Spectral Edition

Spectral Edition
Title Spectral Edition PDF eBook
Author Tim Prchal
Publisher Brom Bones Books
Pages 236
Release 2017-10-19
Genre
ISBN 9781948084000

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Between the American Civil War and the nation¿s entry into World War I, a wave of ghost reports appeared in U.S. newspapers. Haunted houses, haunted roads, haunted families, and other spectral manifestations were treated as legitimate news. Tim Prasil has collected hundreds of these articles, and Spectral Edition: Ghost Reports from U.S. Newspapers, 1865-1917 displays the scariest, strangest, funniest, and most intriguing of them. Along with nearly 150 complete ghost reports, Prasil includes a well-researched Introduction, useful footnotes, rare newspaper illustrations, and an essay about how an alleged ghost encounter in Memphis ignited a debate about responsible journalism. Spectral Edition explores a curious chapter of U.S. newspapers and an era when the American press challenged scientific and religious skepticism with open-minded consideration of the possibility that specters return to haunt us!

Real Ghost Stories

Real Ghost Stories
Title Real Ghost Stories PDF eBook
Author William Thomas Stead
Publisher
Pages 264
Release 1921
Genre Spiritualism
ISBN

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Haunting Experiences

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

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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.

The Night Side of Nature; Or Ghosts and Ghost Seers

The Night Side of Nature; Or Ghosts and Ghost Seers
Title The Night Side of Nature; Or Ghosts and Ghost Seers PDF eBook
Author Catherine Crowe
Publisher
Pages 430
Release 1848
Genre Ghosts
ISBN

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