Author: Alvin Schwartz
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064441709
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Do you believe in ghosts? Some people do . . . These spooky -- and funny -- tales about singing ghosts, toast-eating ghosts, and ghosts no one even guesses are sure to send shivers up and down your spine. Why not retell them to your friends and see if you can make their spines tingle, too?
Ghostly Tales
Author: Billy Roberts
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738739782
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A firsthand witness to an uncountable number of paranormal events, author Billy Roberts tells absolutely true stories that will leave you touched by otherworldly fear. Filled with poltergeists, murderers, and hair-raising spirits, Ghostly Tales is possibly the most frightening book you will ever read. Some of the spine-chilling stories included in this book are gruesome. Some are horrific. All of the stories will chill you to your very bones. A dead man lurks in the land of the living, mystifying his family at his own funeral. An unassuming family, caught in the grip of a misbegotten crystal ball, becomes haunted by deplorable scenes of hellish atrocities. A cloven-hooved card shark interrupts a weekly poker game and terrorizes the players with evil foreboding. The dozens of stories in this book are absolutely true, and they all transcend the bounds of the imagination in a way that will have you afraid to turn out the lights.
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738739782
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A firsthand witness to an uncountable number of paranormal events, author Billy Roberts tells absolutely true stories that will leave you touched by otherworldly fear. Filled with poltergeists, murderers, and hair-raising spirits, Ghostly Tales is possibly the most frightening book you will ever read. Some of the spine-chilling stories included in this book are gruesome. Some are horrific. All of the stories will chill you to your very bones. A dead man lurks in the land of the living, mystifying his family at his own funeral. An unassuming family, caught in the grip of a misbegotten crystal ball, becomes haunted by deplorable scenes of hellish atrocities. A cloven-hooved card shark interrupts a weekly poker game and terrorizes the players with evil foreboding. The dozens of stories in this book are absolutely true, and they all transcend the bounds of the imagination in a way that will have you afraid to turn out the lights.
Ghosts!
Author: Alvin Schwartz
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064441709
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Do you believe in ghosts? Some people do . . . These spooky -- and funny -- tales about singing ghosts, toast-eating ghosts, and ghosts no one even guesses are sure to send shivers up and down your spine. Why not retell them to your friends and see if you can make their spines tingle, too?
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064441709
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Do you believe in ghosts? Some people do . . . These spooky -- and funny -- tales about singing ghosts, toast-eating ghosts, and ghosts no one even guesses are sure to send shivers up and down your spine. Why not retell them to your friends and see if you can make their spines tingle, too?
Ghostly Tales
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: 谷月社
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
At first, of course, they saw or heard little of their father. In general, however, they knew that his plan was to procure some employment in France, and to remove them there. Their present strange abode was only an adventure and an episode, and they believed that any day they might receive instructions to commence their journey. After a little while the pursuit relaxed. The government, I believe, did not care, provided he did not obtrude himself, what became of him, or where he concealed himself. At all events, the local authorities showed no disposition to hunt him down. The young ladies' charges on the little forfeited property were paid without any dispute, and no vexatious inquiries were raised as to what had become of the furniture and other personal property which had been carried away from the forfeited house. The haunted reputation of the castle—for in those days, in matters of the marvellous, the oldest were children—secured the little family in the seclusion they coveted. Once, or sometimes twice a week, old Laurence, with a shaggy little pony, made a secret expedition to the city of Limerick, starting before dawn, and returning under the cover of the night, with his purchases. There was beside an occasional sly moonlit visit from the old parish priest, and a midnight mass in the old castle for the little outlawed congregation. As the alarm and inquiry subsided, their father made them, now and then, a brief and stealthy visit. At first these were but of a night's duration, and with great precaution; but gradually they were extended and less guarded. Still he was, as the phrase is in Munster, "on his keeping." He had firearms always by his bed, and had arranged places of concealment in the castle in the event of a surprise. But no attempt nor any disposition to molest him appearing, he grew more at ease, if not more cheerful. It came, at last, that he would sometimes stay so long as two whole months at a time, and then depart as suddenly and mysteriously as he came. I suppose he had always some promising plot on hand, and his head full of ingenious treason, and lived on the sickly and exciting dietary of hope deferred. Was there a poetical justice in this, that the little ménage thus secretly established, in the solitary and timeworn pile, should have themselves experienced, but from causes not so easily explicable, those very supernatural perturbations which they had themselves essayed to inspire? The interruption of the old priest's secret visits was the earliest consequence of the mysterious interference which now began to display itself. One night, having left his cob in care of his old sacristan in the little village, he trudged on foot along the winding pathway, among the gray rocks and ferns that threaded the glen, intending a ghostly visit to the fair recluses of the castle, and he lost his way in this strange fashion....
Publisher: 谷月社
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
At first, of course, they saw or heard little of their father. In general, however, they knew that his plan was to procure some employment in France, and to remove them there. Their present strange abode was only an adventure and an episode, and they believed that any day they might receive instructions to commence their journey. After a little while the pursuit relaxed. The government, I believe, did not care, provided he did not obtrude himself, what became of him, or where he concealed himself. At all events, the local authorities showed no disposition to hunt him down. The young ladies' charges on the little forfeited property were paid without any dispute, and no vexatious inquiries were raised as to what had become of the furniture and other personal property which had been carried away from the forfeited house. The haunted reputation of the castle—for in those days, in matters of the marvellous, the oldest were children—secured the little family in the seclusion they coveted. Once, or sometimes twice a week, old Laurence, with a shaggy little pony, made a secret expedition to the city of Limerick, starting before dawn, and returning under the cover of the night, with his purchases. There was beside an occasional sly moonlit visit from the old parish priest, and a midnight mass in the old castle for the little outlawed congregation. As the alarm and inquiry subsided, their father made them, now and then, a brief and stealthy visit. At first these were but of a night's duration, and with great precaution; but gradually they were extended and less guarded. Still he was, as the phrase is in Munster, "on his keeping." He had firearms always by his bed, and had arranged places of concealment in the castle in the event of a surprise. But no attempt nor any disposition to molest him appearing, he grew more at ease, if not more cheerful. It came, at last, that he would sometimes stay so long as two whole months at a time, and then depart as suddenly and mysteriously as he came. I suppose he had always some promising plot on hand, and his head full of ingenious treason, and lived on the sickly and exciting dietary of hope deferred. Was there a poetical justice in this, that the little ménage thus secretly established, in the solitary and timeworn pile, should have themselves experienced, but from causes not so easily explicable, those very supernatural perturbations which they had themselves essayed to inspire? The interruption of the old priest's secret visits was the earliest consequence of the mysterious interference which now began to display itself. One night, having left his cob in care of his old sacristan in the little village, he trudged on foot along the winding pathway, among the gray rocks and ferns that threaded the glen, intending a ghostly visit to the fair recluses of the castle, and he lost his way in this strange fashion....
The Ghostly Tales of Salt Lake City
Author: Laurie Allen, Cassie Ashton, Kristen Clay and Nannette Guest-Watts
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467198234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Ghost stories from SLC have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! The haunted history of Salt Lake City comes to life--even when the main players are dead. Crash a party at the Devereaux Mansion--thrown by the ghosts. Or sense the paranormal vibes in the kitchen of Whiskey Street Cocktails and Dining. Have you heard about Girl Scout troop that was haunted by a mysterious apparition while touring the Fort Douglas Military Museum? Dive into this spooky chapter book for suspenseful tales of bumps in the night, paranormal investigations, and the unexplained; just be sure to keep the light on.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467198234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Ghost stories from SLC have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! The haunted history of Salt Lake City comes to life--even when the main players are dead. Crash a party at the Devereaux Mansion--thrown by the ghosts. Or sense the paranormal vibes in the kitchen of Whiskey Street Cocktails and Dining. Have you heard about Girl Scout troop that was haunted by a mysterious apparition while touring the Fort Douglas Military Museum? Dive into this spooky chapter book for suspenseful tales of bumps in the night, paranormal investigations, and the unexplained; just be sure to keep the light on.
The Ghostly Tales of New England
Author: Carie Juettner
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467198064
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Adapted from A guide to haunted New England by Thomas D'Agostino.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467198064
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Adapted from A guide to haunted New England by Thomas D'Agostino.
The Pop-up Book of Ghost Tales
Author: Korky Paul
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780152005894
Category : Children's stories.
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Retells five classic eerie stories in pop-up format, including "Dracula's Guest" and "The Masque of the Red Death."
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780152005894
Category : Children's stories.
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Retells five classic eerie stories in pop-up format, including "Dracula's Guest" and "The Masque of the Red Death."
The Ghostly Tales of Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses
Author: Diane Telgen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467198250
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
"Adapted from Michigan's haunted lighthouses by Dianna Higgs Stampfler."
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467198250
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
"Adapted from Michigan's haunted lighthouses by Dianna Higgs Stampfler."
Ancestral Shadows
Author: Russell Kirk
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802839381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Widely regarded as the founder of the modern conservative movement, Russell Kirk was a noted man of letters whose prodigious literary output included a syndicated newspaper column, a regular page in "National Review," and many books. This volume demonstrates another compelling side of Kirk -- the imaginative author who could communicate his powerful vision through the dramatic genre of the ghost story. "Ancestral Shadows" collects nineteen of Kirkbs best ghostly tales from periodicals and anthologies published throughout his life. In the tradition of Defoe, Stevenson, Hawthorne, Coleridge, Poe, and other master writers, these frightful stories conjure the creaks and shadows of the very places where they came to life through Kirkbs pen: haunted St. Andrews, the Isle of Eigg, Kellie Castle, Balcarres House, Durie House (bwhich has the most persistent of all country-house spectresb), and Kirkbs own ancestral spooky house in Mecosta, Michigan. Full of fantastic gothic tales masterfully told, the volume ends with bA Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale, b an incisive piece in which Kirk reflects on why he writes such stories: bexperiments in the moral imaginationb are what he is really after. Ghost stories are not merely entertaining but possess a particular ability to capture the essential features of human nature, of good and evil. bAll important literature has some ethical end, b Kirk says, band the tale of the preternatural -- as written by George Macdonald, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and other masters -- can be an instrument for the recovery of moral order.b Including an illuminative introduction by Vigen Guroian, "Ancestral Shadows" will enthrall and delight all lovers ofghost stories.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802839381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Widely regarded as the founder of the modern conservative movement, Russell Kirk was a noted man of letters whose prodigious literary output included a syndicated newspaper column, a regular page in "National Review," and many books. This volume demonstrates another compelling side of Kirk -- the imaginative author who could communicate his powerful vision through the dramatic genre of the ghost story. "Ancestral Shadows" collects nineteen of Kirkbs best ghostly tales from periodicals and anthologies published throughout his life. In the tradition of Defoe, Stevenson, Hawthorne, Coleridge, Poe, and other master writers, these frightful stories conjure the creaks and shadows of the very places where they came to life through Kirkbs pen: haunted St. Andrews, the Isle of Eigg, Kellie Castle, Balcarres House, Durie House (bwhich has the most persistent of all country-house spectresb), and Kirkbs own ancestral spooky house in Mecosta, Michigan. Full of fantastic gothic tales masterfully told, the volume ends with bA Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale, b an incisive piece in which Kirk reflects on why he writes such stories: bexperiments in the moral imaginationb are what he is really after. Ghost stories are not merely entertaining but possess a particular ability to capture the essential features of human nature, of good and evil. bAll important literature has some ethical end, b Kirk says, band the tale of the preternatural -- as written by George Macdonald, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and other masters -- can be an instrument for the recovery of moral order.b Including an illuminative introduction by Vigen Guroian, "Ancestral Shadows" will enthrall and delight all lovers ofghost stories.
Ghostly Tales of Michigan
Author: Ryan Jacobson
Publisher: Adventure Publications
ISBN: 1647553067
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Read 27 chilling ghost stories about reportedly true encounters with the supernatural in Michigan. A heroic specter saves a dying man’s life. An April Fool’s joke reveals the presence of a dog-like monster. One place, so haunted that it’s been featured on national television. Michigan is among the most haunted states in America. This collection of ghost stories presents the creepiest, most surprising tales of the Great Lake State! Award-winning author Ryan Jacobson has always held a fascination for things that go bump in the night. The professional writer spent countless hours researching the region in search of the strangest and scariest run-ins with the unexplained. Horror fans and history buffs will delight in these 27 terrifying tales about haunted locations. They’re based on reportedly true accounts, proving that Michigan is the setting for some of the most compelling ghostly tales ever told. The short stories are ideal for quick reading, and they are sure to captivate anyone who enjoys a good scare. Share them with friends around a campfire, or try them alone at home—if you dare.
Publisher: Adventure Publications
ISBN: 1647553067
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Read 27 chilling ghost stories about reportedly true encounters with the supernatural in Michigan. A heroic specter saves a dying man’s life. An April Fool’s joke reveals the presence of a dog-like monster. One place, so haunted that it’s been featured on national television. Michigan is among the most haunted states in America. This collection of ghost stories presents the creepiest, most surprising tales of the Great Lake State! Award-winning author Ryan Jacobson has always held a fascination for things that go bump in the night. The professional writer spent countless hours researching the region in search of the strangest and scariest run-ins with the unexplained. Horror fans and history buffs will delight in these 27 terrifying tales about haunted locations. They’re based on reportedly true accounts, proving that Michigan is the setting for some of the most compelling ghostly tales ever told. The short stories are ideal for quick reading, and they are sure to captivate anyone who enjoys a good scare. Share them with friends around a campfire, or try them alone at home—if you dare.
The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales
Author: Ruth Ann Musick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813101361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813101361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.