A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters
7 best books like A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters (Peter H. Aykroyd): Her Fearful Symmetry, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Maine, Dolly, Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction, Ghosts Caught on Film: Photographs of the Paranormal, The Bell Witch: An American Haunting
Author | Audrey Niffenegger |
ISBN | 0224085611 |
Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.
When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces,...
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
ISBN | 0525541330 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
Author | J. Courtney Sullivan |
ISBN | 0307595129 |
In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common...
Author | Susan Hill |
ISBN | 1846685745 |
The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot Lock, a large decaying house, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward are parked for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt and her cruel housekeeper. At first the unpleasantness and petty meannesses...
Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
Author | Grady Hendrix |
ISBN | 1594749817 |
Written in dead letters... and covered in blood!
Demonic possession! Haunted condominiums! Murderous babies! Man-eating moths! No plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable for the Paperbacks From Hell.
Where did they come from? Where did they go?...
Author | Melvyn Willin |
ISBN | 0715327283 |
"Ghosts Caught on Film" presents an extraordinary collection of strange and unexplained photographs that offer the exciting possibility of ghosts and paranormal activity captured on film. It covers every aspect of the paranormal, from early photographs of psychics, mediums and ghostly happenings,...
The Bell Witch: An American Haunting
Author | Brent Monahan |
ISBN | 0312262922 |
Known throughout Tennessee as "Old Kate," the Bell Witch took up residence with John Bell's family in 1818. It was a cruel and noisy spirit, given to rapping and gnawing sounds before it found its voices.
With these voices and its supernatural acts, the Bell Witch tormented the Bell family....