Hell House

Hell House
Title Hell House PDF eBook
Author Richard Matheson
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2004
Genre Haunted houses
ISBN 9780727860996

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Horror.

The Cultural Gutter

The Cultural Gutter
Title The Cultural Gutter PDF eBook
Author Carol Borden
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 218
Release 2011
Genre Education
ISBN 0557958393

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Science fiction, fantasy, comics, romance, genre movies, games all drain into the Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful articles about disreputable art-media and genres that are a little embarrassing. Irredeemable. Worthy of Note, but rolling like errant pennies back into the gutter. The Cultural Gutter is dangerous because we have a philosophy. We try to balance enthusiasm with clear-eyed, honest engagement with the material and with our readers. This book expands on our mission with 10 articles each from science fiction/fantasy editor James Schellenberg, comics editor and publisher Carol Borden, romance editor Chris Szego, screen editor Ian Driscoll and founding editor and former games editor Jim Munroe.

"That Fiend in Hell"

Title "That Fiend in Hell" PDF eBook
Author Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Pages 294
Release 2012-09-28
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0806188200

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As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.

Hell's Half Acre

Hell's Half Acre
Title Hell's Half Acre PDF eBook
Author Richard F. Selcer
Publisher TCU Press
Pages 388
Release 1991
Genre History
ISBN 9780875650883

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Includes material on Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, and Butch Cassiday.

A Job from Hell

A Job from Hell
Title A Job from Hell PDF eBook
Author Jayde Scott
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Scotland
ISBN 9781461131335

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Enter a world of forbidden love, rituals, dark magic and ancient enemies... An ancient bond draws Amber to the immortal Aidan shortly before her eighteenth birthday when she starts her summer job in Scotland and unknowingly wins the deadly prize in a paranormal race, turning her from a mere mortal into a priceless commodity.

The Legend of Hell

The Legend of Hell
Title The Legend of Hell PDF eBook
Author Percy Dearmer
Publisher
Pages 320
Release 1932
Genre Future punishment
ISBN

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Algoma Ghost

Algoma Ghost
Title Algoma Ghost PDF eBook
Author Russell Slater
Publisher
Pages 80
Release 2015-10-16
Genre
ISBN 9780692555613

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The Legend: In 1835, near Laphamville (modern Rockford), Michigan, several children went missing. After trusted village elder Elias Friske confessed to their murder, he was hanged by vengeful parents. His ghost is rumored to still inhabit the site of the lynching - an area known locally as "Hell's Bridge." As Halloween draws near, a group of teenage thrill-seekers gather near a rusted iron foot bridge. When they disappear into thin air, paranormal investigator Birgil Doxey puts himself on the case. As he probes the mystery, he learns the shocking truth about the town's dark past.