A Haunting Air
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A Haunting Air
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Author : Barbara Constance Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Release Date : 1977
A Haunting Air written by Barbara Constance Freeman and has been published by Dutton Juvenile this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A mysterious singing in the garden of the house next door sets a young girl delving into the past to discover its meaning and its source.
Haunted Air
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Author : Ossian Brown
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Haunted Air written by Ossian Brown and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Photography categories.
The roots of Hallowe'en lie in the ancient pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on this night the veil separating the worlds of the living and the dead grew thin and ruptured, allowing spirits to pass through and walk unseen but not unheard amongst men. The advent of Christianity saw the pagan festival subsumed in All Souls' Day, when across Europe the dead were mourned and venerated. Children and the poor, often masked or in outlandish costume, wandered the night begging 'soul cakes' in exchange for prayers, and fires burned to keep malevolent phantoms at bay. From Europe, the haunted tradition would quickly take root and flourish in the fertile soil of the New World. Feeding hungrily on fresh lore, consuming half-remembered tales of its own shadowy origins and rituals, Hallowe'en was reborn in America. The pumpkin supplanted the carved turnip; costumes grew ever stranger, and celebrants both rural and urban seized gleefully on the festival's intoxicating, lawless spirit. For one wild night, the dead stared into the faces of the living and the living, ghoulishly masked and clad in tattered backwoods baroque, stared back. The photographs in Haunted Air provide an extraordinary glimpse into the traditions of this macabre festival from ages past, and form an important document of photographic history. These are the pictures of the dead: family portraits, mementos of the treasured, now unrecognisable, other. Torn from album pages, sold piecemeal for pennies and scattered, abandoned to melancholy chance and the hands of strangers.
Thin Air
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Author : Kellie M. Parker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2023-10-17
Thin Air written by Kellie M. Parker and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-17 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight none of them might survive. A flight to Paris full of teenagers seeking opportunity turns deadly in this suspenseful, locked-door YA thriller. Perfect for fans of Diana Urban, Karen McManus, and Jessica Goodman. Seventeen-year-old boarding school student Emily Walters is selected for an opportunity of a lifetime—she’ll compete abroad for a cash prize that will cover not only tuition to the college of her choice, but will lift her mother and her out of poverty. But almost from the moment she and 11 other contestants board a private jet to Europe, Emily realizes somebody is willing to do anything to win. Between keeping an eye on her best friend’s flirty boyfriend and hiding her own dark secrets, she’s not sure how she’ll survive the contest, much less the flight. Especially when people start dying… As loyalties shift and secrets are revealed, Emily must figure out who to trust, and who’s trying to kill them all, before she becomes the next victim.
Ghosts Of The Air
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Author : Martin Caidin
language : en
Publisher: Galde Press, Inc.
Release Date : 1995
Ghosts Of The Air written by Martin Caidin and has been published by Galde Press, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
There are events witnessed in that half-way region between heaven and earth that defy all rational explanation. For years, author and pilot Martin Caidin collected these strange but true stories of aerial hauntings from experienced pilots and astronauts. His startling conclusion: Something is out there!
The Haunting Of Aveline Jones
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Author : Phil Hickes
language : en
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2020-09-17
The Haunting Of Aveline Jones written by Phil Hickes and has been published by Usborne Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it belonged to a girl called Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to be seen again. Intrigued, Aveline decides to investigate Primrose's disappearance, with some help from her new friend, Harold. Now someone...or something, is stirring. And it is looking for Aveline. The first in a deliciously spine-tingling, spooky new series, where mysteries are always solved, spirits are always laid to rest, and everybody gets to bed on time.
Ghosts
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Author : Lisa Morton
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Ghosts written by Lisa Morton and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with History categories.
From that cheerful puff of smoke known as Casper to the hunkiest potter living or dead, Sam Wheat, there is probably no more iconic entity in supernatural history than the ghost. And these are just recent examples. From the earliest writings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to today’s ghost-hunting reality TV shows, ghosts have chilled the air of nearly every era and every culture in human history. In this book, Lisa Morton uses her scholarly prowess—more powerful than any proton pack—to wrangle together history’s most enduring ghosts into an entertaining and comprehensive look at what otherwise seems to always evade our eyes. Tracing the ghost’s constantly shifting contours, Morton asks the most direct question—What exactly is a ghost?—and examines related entities such as poltergeists, wraiths, and revenants. She asks how a ghost is related to a soul, and she outlines all the different kinds of ghosts there are. To do so, she visits the spirits of the classical world, including the five-part Egyptian soul and the first haunted-house, conceived in the Roman playwright Plautus’s comedy, Mostellaria. She confronts us with the frightening phantoms of the Middle Ages—who could incinerate priests and devour children—and reminds us of the nineteenth-century rise of Spiritualism, a religion essentially devoted to ghosts. She visits with the Indian bhuta and goes to the Hungry Ghost Festival in China, and of course she spends time in Mexico, where ghosts have a particularly strong grip on belief and culture. Along the way she gathers the ectoplasmic residues seeping from books and film reels, from the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto to the 2007 blockbuster Paranormal Activity, from the stories of Ann Radcliffe to those of Stephen King. Wide-ranging, informative, and slicked with over fifty unearthly images, Ghosts is an entertaining read of a cultural phenomenon that will delight anyone, whether they believe in ghosts or not.
The Mercy Of Thin Air
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Author : Ronlyn Domingue
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-06-20
The Mercy Of Thin Air written by Ronlyn Domingue and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-20 with Fiction categories.
Following her death in 1920s New Orleans, beautiful Raziela chooses to remain in The Between--a place between life and death--rather than pass on to what lies ahead, hoping to find out what happened to her beloved Andrew.
Wonderbook
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Author : Jeff VanderMeer
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2018-07-03
Wonderbook written by Jeff VanderMeer and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Now expanded: The definitive visual guide to writing science fiction and fantasy—with exercises, diagrams, essays by superstar authors, and more. From the New York Times-bestselling, Nebula Award-winning author, Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also embraces the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, it features sidebars and essays—most original to the book—from some of the biggest names working in the field today, among them George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Charles Yu, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added fifty more pages of diagrams, illustrations, and writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice. “One book that every speculative fiction writer should read to learn about proper worldbuilding.” —Bustle “A treat . . . gorgeous to page through.” —Space.com
The Haunted Air
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Author : F. Paul Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Forge Books
Release Date : 2010-04-01
The Haunted Air written by F. Paul Wilson and has been published by Forge Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Fiction categories.
F. Paul Wilson's engaging, self-employed, off-the-books fixer, Repairman Jack, returns for another intense, action-packed adventure just a little over the border into the weird, in The Haunted Air. First introduced years ago in the bestseller The Tomb, Jack has been the hero of a series of exciting novels set in and around New York City including Legacies, Conspiracies, All the Rage, and Hosts. "Repairman Jack is a wonderful character, ultracompetent but still vulnerable. Wilson strolls into X-Files territory and makes it his own, keeping the action brisk and the level of suspense steadily rising," said the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle. In Astoria, Queens, the lively ethnic neighborhood just across the river from Manhattan, a house is being haunted by the ghost of a nine-year-old girl in riding clothes. More than two decades before, she'd been abducted from stables in Brooklyn. Now it's up to Jack to uncover the truth of her story and liberate the pretty, blond spirit. Perhaps the answer is in the odd little store called the Shurio Coppe? Ah, but that would be telling. Jack does things no human being should be able to do, but we watch, in horrified fascination, as the forces of evil seem about to triumph and fill the world with eternal darkness. And then-- but you must read the book. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Poltergeist Prince Of London
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Author : James Clark
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
The Poltergeist Prince Of London written by James Clark and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.
It began with a key. One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings' bed. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the beginning of one of the most terrifying, incredible and mysterious hauntings in British history. The spirit, who quickly became known as 'Donald', began to communicate, initially via tapping sounds, but over time - and with the encouragement of psychical researcher Harold Chibbett, whose case-files appear here – by learning to write. Soon, the spirit had begun to make simply incredible claims about his identity, insisting that he was one of the most famous figures in world history – but what was the truth? Here, for the first time, is the full story, told by the woman right at the heart of it all – Shirley herself.