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Bluebeard Of West Virginia
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Author : Douglas MacGowan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-05
Bluebeard Of West Virginia written by Douglas MacGowan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-05 with Clarksburg (W. Va.) categories.
He killed his victims in an airless dungeon and buried them in a sewer. How could a quiet man carry out such sadistic murders?How many did he kill? Where are the bodies of his victims that were never found? These unanswered questions can all be posed about the infamous killer Harry Powers of Clarksburg, West Virginia, who went to the gallows in 1932, still insisting his innocence of a series of murders that shocked the city, the state, and the nation.The fairy tale "Bluebeard" details an evil nobleman who marries a string of women and then kills them. It is probably French in origin and was first written down in a 1697 collection of fables and fairy tales collected by Charles Perrault. The term "Bluebeard" today is generally used for any killer who has killed a succession of fiancées and/or wives.The gruesome story inside was used for the inspiration to the classic book and movie, Night of the Hunter.
Quiet Dell
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Author : Jayne Anne Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-04-24
Quiet Dell written by Jayne Anne Phillips and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Fiction categories.
A Story of Love, Murder and Obsession Chicago, 1931. Asta Eicher, a lonely widow with three children, is thrilled when Harry Powers asks her to marry him, and agrees to travel with him to West Virginia. She and her children are never seen alive again. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women in the Chicago press, is sent to cover their disappearance. Obsessed with trying to find out what happened to the family, her investigations lead deeper into the case, uncovering the terrifying truth behind the tragedy. ‘Extraordinary’ Observer ‘Brilliant’ Sunday Times
Mountaineer Jamboree
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Author : Ivan M. Tribe
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-11-21
Mountaineer Jamboree written by Ivan M. Tribe and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-21 with Music categories.
Jamboree! To many country music fans the word conjures up memories of Saturday nights around the family radio listening to live broadcasts from that haven of hillbilly music, West Virginia. From 1926 through the 1950s, as Ivan Tribe shows in his lively history, country music radio programming made the Mountain State a mecca for country singers and instrumentalists from all over America. Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, Little Jimmy Dickens, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Red Sovine, Blaine Smith, Curly Ray Cline, Grandpa Jones, Cowboy Loye, Rex and Eleanor Parker, Lee Moore, Buddy Starcher, Doc and Chickie Williams, and Molly O'Day were among the many who came to prominence via West Virginia radio. Wheeling's "WWVA jamboree," first broadcast in 1933, attracted a wide audience, especially after 1942, when the station increased its power. The show's success spawned numerous competitors, as new stations all over West Virginia followed WWVA's lead in headlining country music. The state also played an important role in the early recording industry. The Tweedy Brothers, Frank Hutchison, Roy Harvey, Blind Alfred Reed, Frank Welling and John McGhee, Cap and Andy, and the Kessinger Brothers were among West Virginians whose waxings contributed to the state's reputation for fine native musicianship. So too did those who sought out and recorded the Mountaineer folksong heritage. As Nashville's dominance has grown since the 1960s, West Virginia's leadership in country music has lessened. Young performers must now seek fame outside their native state. But, as Ivan Tribe demonstrates, the state's numerous outdoor festivals continue to keep alive the heritage of country music's "mountain mama."
West Virginia Songbag
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Author : Jim F. Comstock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
West Virginia Songbag written by Jim F. Comstock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Folk music categories.
Bluebeard
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Author : Kurt Vonnegut
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-15
Bluebeard written by Kurt Vonnegut and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Fiction categories.
Kurt Vonnegut has surpassed even his own giddy heights of hilariously bitter irony in Bluebeard. It is a novel so funny and yet so terribly serious that you will read it - then reconsider your own life.
Bluebeard
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Author : Casie E. Hermansson
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2010-03-05
Bluebeard written by Casie E. Hermansson and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-05 with Social Science categories.
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like “Mr. Fox,” native to England and America) in English: from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, through the twentieth century in music, literature, art, film, and theater. Chronicling the story's permutations, the book presents examples of English true-crime figures, male and female, called Bluebeards, from King Henry VIII to present-day examples. Bluebeard explores rare chapbooks and their illustrations and the English transformation of Bluebeard into a scimitar-wielding Turkish tyrant in a massively influential melodramatic spectacle in 1798. Following the killer's trail over the years, Casie E. Hermansson looks at the impact of nineteenth-century translations into English of the German fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the particularly English story of how Bluebeard came to be known as a pirate. This book will provide readers and scholars an invaluable and thorough grasp on the many strands of this tale over centuries of telling.
West Virginia Curiosities
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Author : Rick Steelhammer
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2010-01-19
West Virginia Curiosities written by Rick Steelhammer and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-19 with History categories.
Laugh your way through the pages of West VirginiaCuriosities, your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Mountain State has to offer!
Bluebeard
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Author : Casie Hermansson
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009
Bluebeard written by Casie Hermansson and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.
The Mail Order Serial Killer The Life And Death Of Harry Powers
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Author : Vance McLaughlin Phd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-05-01
The Mail Order Serial Killer The Life And Death Of Harry Powers written by Vance McLaughlin Phd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with True Crime categories.
In the 1955 film The Night of the Hunter, greedy self-ordained minister, Reverend Harry Powell, portrayed by Robert Mitchum, kills women and terrorizes children. The hackneyed expression that truth is stranger than fiction, in this case, is not hyperbole. On a small farm in Quiet Dell, eight miles southeast of Clarksburg, West Virginia, two middle-aged women and three children were starved and murdered in the summer of 1931. The five bodies recovered were only intended to be a beginning. Others were scheduled for the abattoir. Meet Harry Powers, also known as Bluebeard, Mail Order Romeo/Don Juan, Slaughterhouse Harry, Human Tarantula, and Love Racketeer, one of the most enigmatic and until now, unstudied, sociopaths of the 20th century.
Man With The Killer Smile
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Author : Mitchel P. Roth
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2022-11-15
Man With The Killer Smile written by Mitchel P. Roth and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with True Crime categories.
On a cold, windy December night in 1926, hell was unleashed on a tenant farm near Farwell, the last Texas town before the New Mexico border. Prone to the bottle and fits of rage, the burly man with the smiling blue eyes was in no mood to quarrel with his third wife over his bootleg whisky and sexual abuse of his stepdaughter. He went from room to room in the house, killing his wife and each child with primitive cutting tools and his bare hands. By the time he concluded his bloody work, he had taken the lives of nine family members ranging in age from 2 to 41, committing what one local reporter called “the blackest crime” in the history of the West Texas Panhandle. Husband, father, uncle, embezzler, serial mass murderer, philanderer, child molester, convict, and military deserter, George Jefferson Hassell was many things to many people, most of them bad. His pattern of familicide crime had begun in 1917, when he slaughtered his common-law wife and her three kids in Whittier, California. Later, in Texas, he married his brother’s wife and became stepfather to her eight children. Using Hassell’s confessions and his many interviews with reporters as well as the trial transcripts and reminiscences of those who crossed paths with him in Texas, Oklahoma, and California, Mitchel P. Roth presents the first comprehensive account of the life and crimes of one of the least known multiple murderers in Texas, let alone American, history. Roth situates Hassell’s saga within the 1920s Texas criminal justice system, including the death penalty, which Hassell ultimately received from Old Sparky, the electric chair at Huntsville.