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Author: Dinah Williams Publisher: Bearport Publishing ISBN: 1684028744 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Most haunted houses were once the scenes of gruesome events or some deep human unhappiness. Rose Hall Great House in Jamaica is no exception. The mistress of the house, Annie Palmer, began her reign of terror at 18. As a girl, her parents had relocated from Ireland to Haiti and promptly died of yellow fever, leaving Annie in the care of a Haitian nanny rumored to be a voodoo priestess. It is said that she trained Annie in the occult. After marrying John Palmer in 1780, Annie reportedly murdered him by poisoning his coffee. Thereafter, she had numerous boyfriends murdered along with two more husbands. When Annie finally died, the slaves burned all of her possessions and buried her as deep in the ground as they could. The house is still said to be haunted by “The White Witch of Rose Hall,” and the story of Annie’s haunting is the basis for over a dozen gothic novels. This nonfiction account of a haunted house along with 10 other haunted house histories will keep young readers on the edges of their chairs, scarily awake! Haunted Houses is part of Bearport’s Scary Places series.
Author: Jeanne Nagle Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1499437196 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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As long as haunted houses have entertained thrill-seekers, they have also been moneymaking ventures for entrepreneurs. This intriguing title introduces readers to a world they likely rarely think about, much less consider as a possible job and even lifelong career. Haunted houses can be proving grounds and provide gainful employment for many different skillsets: contractors, makeup artists, special effects practitioners, actors, and many more. Covering everything from big-name amusement parks to small-scale, seasonal tourist attractions run by small businesspeople, this title provides a history of haunted houses and a handy beginner’s guide for a creative career in chilling showmanship.
Author: Corinne May Botz Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC ISBN: 1580932916 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 210
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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.
Author: Dinah Williams Publisher: Bearport Publishing ISBN: 1597166723 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Most haunted houses were once the scenes of gruesome events or some deep human unhappiness. Rose Hall Great House in Jamaica is no exception. The mistress of the house, Annie Palmer, began her reign of terror at 18. As a girl, her parents had relocated from Ireland to Haiti and promptly died of yellow fever, leaving Annie in the care of a Haitian nanny rumored to be a voodoo priestess. It is said that she trained Annie in the occult. After marrying John Palmer in 1780, Annie reportedly murdered him by poisoning his coffee. Thereafter, she had numerous boyfriends murdered along with two more husbands. When Annie finally died, the slaves burned all of her possessions and buried her as deep in the ground as they could. The house is still said to be haunted by “The White Witch of Rose Hall,” and the story of Annie’s haunting is the basis for over a dozen gothic novels. This nonfiction account of a haunted house along with 10 other haunted house histories will keep young readers on the edge of their seats!
Author: Stuart A. Kallen Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1601523858 Category : Ghosts Languages : en Pages : 96
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Ghostly apparitions, both friendly and hostile, have been a part of human folklore and literature since ancient times. Haunted Houses examines countless homes throughout the world which have had or continue to experience hauntings. The reader is provided with abundant evidence of hauntings including quotations from ghost hunters, frightened residents, and ghostly communications.
Author: Joan Bingham Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0671695851 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 324
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From Simon & Schuster, More Haunted Houses is a guide to cryptic hangouts and ghostly locales in the United States. From a robber's cave that echoes with voices of its past to America's own Loch Ness Monster to a vampire-infested cemetery, this fascinating companion volume to Haunted Houses USA takes us on a tour of some of America's spookiest places.
Author: Sandra Dooling Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1477761993 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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People who have experienced haunted houses tell of seeing ghostly figures, hearing strange sounds such as rattling chains, smelling special odors, and feeling sudden chills in the air and even ghostly touches. Readers will delight in this spine-tingling exploration of the three ghosts that haunt the historic Westover Plantation. The tragic stories of these unfortunate residents of the home are covered in detail. For those who want to find out about other haunted houses, there is a “More Haunted Houses” section that summarizes the story of other famous sites for paranormal activity.
Author: Dolores Riccio
Author: Dolores Riccio
Author: Dinah Williams
Author: Jeanne Nagle
Author: Corinne May Botz
Author: Dinah Williams
Author: Stuart A. Kallen
Author: Katherine Krohn
Author: Camille Flammarion
Author: Joan Bingham
Author: Sandra Dooling