Haunting Hands
Haunting Hands

Author: Kathleen M. Cumiskey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0190695072

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Haunting Hands looks closely at the consequences of digital media's ubiquitous presence in our lives, in particular the representing, sharing, and remembering of loss. From Facebook tribute pages during public disasters to the lingering digital traces on a smartphone of the deceased, the digital is both extending earlier memorial practices and creating new ways in which death and loss manifest themselves. The ubiquity of digital specters is particularly evident in mobile media spanning smartphones, iPads, iPhones, or tablets. Mobile media entangle various forms of social, online and digital media in specific ways that are both intimate and public, and yet the use of mobile media in contexts of loss has been relatively overlooked. Haunting Hands seeks to address this growing and important area by helping us to understand the relationship between life, death, and our digital after-lives.

Haunting Hands
Haunting Hands

Author: Kathleen M. Cumiskey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0190634987

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From smartphones to tablets, mobile media is increasingly playing a central role in the representation, sharing, and experience of events public and private, formal and informal. Drawing on cross-cultural fieldwork, Haunting Hands considers the role mobile media practices and rituals provide as fundamental insights into contemporary notions of life, death, and loss.

The Haunting Hand
The Haunting Hand

Author: W. Adolphe Roberts

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2024-02-20

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1504093135

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An actress stars in her own off-screen mystery in this Golden Age whodunit from the award-winning Jamaican novelist, poet, and historian. Though originally a medical student specializing in chemistry, twenty-five-year-old Margot Anstruther decides to try her luck as an actress and gets cast in her first role for the Superfilm Company. With the studio’s boorish director taking a personal interest in her, Margot finds herself caught in the middle of two men: her boss and her increasingly jealous suitor, Gene Varley. One night, alone in her midtown Manhattan apartment after a party, Margot is shocked to find a hand reaching out from under her bed. Though Gene and the police find no sign of an intruder, Margot refuses to believe in a supernatural cause. She puts her scientific mind to work delving into her apartment’s strange past—a recent tenants’ disappearance—and walking a fine line between the complicated passions of friends and rivals . . .

The Haunting Hand
The Haunting Hand

Author: Walter Adolphe Roberts

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Set in the silent film era, in Astoria, Queens, a film director is illegally renting a supply of radium to use in his production of "Toreador of Love". A disembodied hand emerges briefly from under Margot's bed, then vanishes. Later, the hand is found under the floorboards. Whose arm was it, and why was it put under the floor?

If I Stopped Haunting You
If I Stopped Haunting You

Author: Colby Wilkens

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1250292913

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"If you're in the mood for a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance but also a chilling haunted-house horror, GET YOU A BOOK THAT CAN DO BOTH! I blazed through this book in one sitting because I just couldn't wait to find out what would happen next!" - Alicia Thompson, USA Today bestselling author of With Love, from Cold World An enemies to lovers romance with a spooky twist where two feuding writers end up on a writers retreat together at a haunted castle in Scotland It's been months since horror author Penelope Skinner threw a book at Neil Storm. But he was so infuriating, with his sparkling green eyes and his bestselling horror novels that claimed to break Native stereotypes. And now she’s a publishing pariah and hasn’t been able to write a word since. So when her friend invites her on a too-good-to-be-true writers retreat in a supposedly haunted Scottish castle, she seizes the opportunity. Of course, some things really are too good to be true. Neil wants nothing less than to be trapped in a castle with the frustratingly adorable woman who threw a book at him. She drew blood! Worse still, she unleashed a serious case of self-doubt! Neil is terrified to write another bestselling “book without a soul,” as Pen called it. All Neil wants is to find inspiration, while completely avoiding her. But as the retreat begins, Pen and Neil are stunned to find themselves trapped in a real-life ghost story. Even more horrifying, they’re stuck together and a truly shocking (extremely hot) almost-kiss has left them rethinking their feelings, and... maybe they shouldn’t have been enemies at all? But if they can’t stop the ghosts pursuing them, they may never have the chance to find out. Full of spooky chills and even more sexy thrills, If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens is the funny, fast-paced romp romance readers have been waiting for! "I didn't realize I needed a romance book married to cozy horror but now I'm wondering where this particular mashup has been all my life. Can't wait to read the next!" - Jessica Clare, New York Times bestselling author

Haunting Sunshine
Haunting Sunshine

Author: Jack Powell

Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1561642207

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Spectral visions, footsteps in the attic, thumps in the night. Who hasn't witnessed or heard such things and not thought of ghosts? Join your guide, author Jack Powell, on a wild ride from Pensacola to Jacksonville and down to Key West, touring Florida's places and history through some of its best ghost stories. Powell has woven together a creepy collection of tales. Explore the darker side of the Sunshine State. What horrible fate awalted the pirates lover in Pensacola? Care to check out the last crop Edgar Watson planted on his farm in the Everglades? When will the ghost leave baby Carlys room?

A Haunting at Land's End
A Haunting at Land's End

Author: Barbara E Pleasant

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1622120620

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A Haunting at Land's End is paranormal romance for the lover of a haunted-house story. It begins before the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina, and moves up through today. Most ghost stories dodge the reason for the haunting, however this book tells the story from the perspective of everyone involved, even the ghost Anna talks. Allen and Susan are in love but can't marry and begin a life together at the restored Land's End until the ghost that's haunting the house has been crossed over to the next world. Anna, the ghost, refuses to leave and thinks look alike Allen is her husband Jeffery from the past. In her mind, she is still living in the time when she died and that makes her think Susan is a whore from a Civil-War-era saloon in Charleston. The ghost has to stop Susan because she thinks she's out to steal her Jeffery away from her.

Haunted Houses
Haunted Houses

Author: Corinne May Botz

Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC

Published: 2010-09-28

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1580932916

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“When I was between the ages of five and eight, my sister and I slept in a large attic bedroom. At nightfall the room was filled with gypsies who glided around in clusters. They wore colorful thin flowing dresses and rummaged greedily through my drawers and books as if they would steal everything. I lay in bed as stiff as a board, trying to will myself invisible, praying they would not notice me looking . . . Daylight obliterated the gypsies, rendering them as thoroughly insubstantial as they had been real in the dark. I had a vague understanding that my vision was private, so I never told my family what I saw.” So began Corinne May Botz’s fascination with the invisible, a phenomenon that has profoundly influenced her approach to photography in style and subject matter. For more than ten years, she searched for ghost stories in buildings across the United States. She ventured into these haunted places with both camera and tape recorder in hand; her photographs, accompanied by first-person narratives, reveal a rare glimpse into American interiors, both physical and psychological. This book includes more than eighty haunted buildings, from the legendary to the ordinary, including Edgar Allan Poe’s house in Baltimore, a New Jersey tavern, and a Massachusetts farmhouse, a log cabin in Kentucky, and a number of private residences. The text includes ghost stories told to the author by those who lived through the moving rugs, creaking floors, apparitions, disappearing—and reappearing—objects, cries in the night, mysteriously burning candles, and other unexplained occurrences.

The Haunting of Alabama
The Haunting of Alabama

Author: Alan Brown

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017-04-26

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1455622915

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The definitive guide to the ghost stories and folklore of the Yellowhammer State—from a Confederate captain’s spirit to mansions plagued by the paranormal. Alabama’s haunted history is spotlighted in chapters that cover the ghostly escapades and happenings at Rawls Hotel, Heritage Bible College, the USS Alabama, Bayview Bridge, and Marion Military Institute, to name a few. Each entry provides a history of the establishment and offers the possible motivations behind the hauntings. Vivid descriptions of the setting, along with detailed eyewitness accounts, enable the reader to experience the hair-raising firsthand. Dip into this ghostly guide for a tour of more than forty haunted sites along with stories of their supernatural inhabitants. In each instance, skepticism abounds and the question remains—is there really a ghost?