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Author: Cullen Bunn
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Published: 2024-04-03
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a worldwide storm gathers and Shane finally catches up with the Family and Harmony, but his goals have changed... Harmony finds herself in a series of terrifying situations and can find no escape, even after she is pursued a second time by someone familiar.
Author: Cullen Bunn
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Published: 2024-02-07
Total Pages: 31
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome of those Lucas has met on his path are in grave danger–targets for assassins, and it’s up to him to help them. And in a panic, he tries to get Harmony on the phone... knowing she’s far from safe and time is running out.
Author: John Alexander
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780764306532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reporter for the Washington Star newspaper wrote in 1891, "Washington is the greatest town for ghosts in this country." Here is a collection of tales and over 180 images of famous personalities who revisit the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and other Virginia, Maryland and Washington buildings and homes said to be haunted. It is a revised and updated edition of Ghosts! Washington's Most Famous Ghost Stories.
Author: Elizabeth Tucker
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009-10-20
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1604733179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do so many American college students tell stories about encounters with ghosts? In Haunted Halls, the first book-length interpretive study of college ghostlore, Elizabeth Tucker takes the reader back to school to get acquainted with a wide range of college spirits. Some of the best-known ghosts that she discusses are Emory University's Dooley, who can disband classes by shooting professors with his water pistol; Mansfield University's Sara, who threw herself down a flight of stairs after being rejected by her boyfriend; and Huntingdon College's Red Lady, who slit her wrists while dressed in a red robe. Gettysburg College students have collided with ghosts of soldiers, while students at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College have reported frightening glimpses of the Faceless Nun. Tucker presents campus ghostlore from the mid-1960s to 2006, with special attention to stories told by twenty-first-century students through e-mail and instant messages. Her approach combines social, psychological, and cultural analysis, with close attention to students' own explanations of the significance of spectral phenomena. As metaphors of disorder, insanity, and school spirit, college ghosts convey multiple meanings. Their colorful stories warn students about the dangers of overindulgence, as well as the pitfalls of potentially horrifying relationships. Besides offering insight into students' initiation into campus life, college ghost stories make important statements about injustices suffered by Native Americans, African Americans, and others.
Author: Joanne Chassot
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2018-01-02
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1512601616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers - Fred D'Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Joanne Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does cultural, theoretical, and political work crucial to the writers' engagement with issues of identity, memory, and history. Drawing on memory and trauma studies, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, this truly interdisciplinary volume makes an important contribution to the fast-growing field of spectrality studies.
Author: Cody Polston
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467149780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the railroad arrived in Albuquerque in 1880, a whole new town of stores and saloons sprouted along the tracks in tents and shacks. But just like the original settlement, which came to be known as Old Town, the additional districts produced their fair share of macabre tales and ghostly lore. At the KiMo Theater, the crew still leaves out donuts for the tragic young victim of a 1951 water heater explosion. A mysterious woman in a black dress visits the bar at the Old Albuquerque Press Club with an apparent hankering for gin. From inexplicable occurrences at the Old Bernalillo County Courthouse to infamous residents of the Fairview Cemetery, Cody Polston gathers enough of Albuquerque's haunted heritage to entertain the most dismissive skeptic.
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Published: 2022-10-22T22:59:00Z
Total Pages: 39
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. The spirits who are stopped in time retain their youth, mystery, and beauty. They may also still hold their pain, eternally. #2 The death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical topic in the world. The spirits who are stopped in time retain their youth, mystery, and beauty. They may also still hold their pain, eternally. #3 Women in academia are typically cut off from the domestic sphere, and thus from the conservative impulses that underlie this sort of folktale. #4 Women in academia are typically cut off from the domestic sphere, and thus from the conservative impulses that underlie this sort of folktale.
Author: Wayland D. Hand
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0520313216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
Author: Tyler D. Parry
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2020-10-02
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1469660873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the "broomstick wedding." Popularly associated with African American culture, Parry traces the ritual's origins to marginalized groups in the British Isles and explores how it influenced the marriage traditions of different communities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. His surprising findings shed new light on the complexities of cultural exchange between peoples of African and European descent from the 1700s up to the twenty-first century. Drawing from the historical records of enslaved people in the United States, British Romani, Louisiana Cajuns, and many others, Parry discloses how marginalized people found dignity in the face of oppression by innovating and reimagining marriage rituals. Such innovations have an enduring impact on the descendants of the original practitioners. Parry reveals how and why the simple act of "jumping the broom" captivates so many people who, on the surface, appear to have little in common with each other.
Author: Allison Mills
Publisher: Annick Press
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1773212982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhosts aren’t meant to stick around forever... Shelly and her grandmother catch ghosts. In their hair. Just like all the women in their family, they can see souls who haven’t transitioned yet; it’s their job to help the ghosts along their journey. When Shelly’s mom dies suddenly, Shelly’s relationship to ghosts—and death—changes. Instead of helping spirits move on, Shelly starts hoarding them. But no matter how many ghost cats, dogs, or people she hides in her room, Shelly can’t ignore the one ghost that’s missing. Why hasn’t her mom’s ghost come home yet? Rooted in a Cree worldview and inspired by stories about the author’s great-grandmother’s life, The Ghost Collector delves into questions of grief and loss, and introduces an exciting new voice in tween fiction that will appeal to fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home and Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls.
