Haunting Experiences
Haunting Experiences

Author: Diane Goldstein

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2007-09-15

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1457174839

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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

Ghostland
Ghostland

Author: Colin Dickey

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1101980206

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One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016 “A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our history. Colin Dickey is on the trail of America’s ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and “zombie homes,” Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. Some have established reputations as “the most haunted mansion in America,” or “the most haunted prison”; others, like the haunted Indian burial grounds in West Virginia, evoke memories from the past our collective nation tries to forget. With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living—how do we, the living, deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed, for whatever reason, haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story, but also to the ways in which changes to those facts are made—and why those changes are made—Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of things left undone, crimes left unsolved. Spellbinding, scary, and wickedly insightful, Ghostland discovers the past we’re most afraid to speak of aloud in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.

Confederates in the Attic
Confederates in the Attic

Author: Tony Horwitz

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-08-18

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0307763013

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans of history resurrect the ghosts of the Lost Cause through ritual and remembrance. "The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time. This splendid commemoration of the war and its legacy ... is an eyes–open, humorously no–nonsense survey of complicated Americans." —The New York Times Book Review For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War—reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more—this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social commentary and always good-humored. When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart. Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of 'hardcore' reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who brandishes a rebel flag; at Andersonville, he finds that the prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and in the book's climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their odyssey the 'Civil Wargasm.' Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, Confederates in the Attic brings alive old battlefields and the new 'classrooms, courts, country bars' where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways.

Grace
Grace

Author: Julie Eddy

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2013-02-27

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1449785565

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Grace is a creative work of fiction covering bonds of friendship, relationships and forgiveness, second chances, childhood tragedy, life, death, good, evil, triumph, pain, and the ways God can use all of it and all of us for His plan of reconciliation and hope. Shilohhaving witnessed the murder of her parents at a young age and suffering what she thinks is the betrayal of Jesse, her one true lovehas turned cold to her friend Graces idea of a loving God. The bond of this enduring childhood friendship with Grace, who is gifted as a sensitive and highly aware of Shilohs demons, has planted the seeds that eventually cost Grace dearly, but just may be what will save her dearest friend from the darkness tormenting her spirit.

Civil War Ghost Trails
Civil War Ghost Trails

Author: Mark Nesbitt

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0811710610

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Eerie tribute to the ghosts and ghouls of American Civil War soldiers. Riveting ghost stories from all the major engagements of the war including Manassas, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Petersburg, and Appomattox.

The Ranger
The Ranger

Author: Carol Finch

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1459229797

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CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE… …between a mysterious Apache, who claims he’s a Texas Ranger, and some very angry desperados, she doesn’t know who to trust. The last thing Shiloh Drummond wants is a man in her life, although right now this ranger is all she has! Logan Hawk can’t wait to get rid of this feisty female and return to the task of avenging his mentor’s death—although he must do the honorable thing and protect her at all costs. But during a long trip to safety that’s more rocky than romantic, Logan realizes that he may not really want to let Shiloh go…

The Web of Victory
The Web of Victory

Author: Earl S. Miers

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 1984-09-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780807111994

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The Web of Victory tells of the Union siege of Vicksburg, a campaign that might very well have been the turning point of the Civil War and was without any doubt the turning point in the military career of General Ulysses S. Grant.If Grant began the campaign as a leader known more for his drinking and shabby appearance than for his strategy, he emerged from the siege with the respect of his president and the admiration -- in some cases grudging admiration -- of his fellow generals. Vicksburg revealed him as a daring, resourceful strategist, a leader who had the courage and inspiration to toss aside the military textbooks and give free rein to his genius.