The proliferation of books and films about the "undead", those literally returning from the grave, in modern popular culture has been commented on as a recent phenomenon, but it is in fact a storytelling tradition going back more than a millennium. It drew on and was influenced by Christian eschatology, gathered momentum in medieval ecclesiastical chronicles, such as those written by Caesarius of Heisterbach, and then migrated into imaginative literature - famously in John Lydgate's Dance of Dea...
Ghostnortheast Volume 1
by York St John Business School Steve Watson
Describes the repeated appearances of the ghosts of two airline pilots killed in a 1972 crash.
Divided into three sections - North, South-West, and South-East - with each area yielding up its fair share of ghosts, phantoms, spectres and poltergeists.
Go behind the barbed wire and explore the many sanitariums or asylums that were intended to help the mentally ill but only contributed to their afflictions. Learn the history behind the infamous Riverside patient Mary Mallon, also known as "Typhoid Mary." Get spooked by the gothic and foreboding buildings at Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts, which became both the inspiration and the filming location for the movie Session 9, and Oregon State Hospital, where Jack Nicholson's famous...
Connecticut Ghost Stories and Legends (Haunted America)
by Thomas D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson
Ghosts of the Bluegrass
by Emeritus Professor of Community Health James McCormick and Macy Wyatt
On June 1,1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the new nation and the first west of the Alleghenies. Lowell Harrison reviews the tangled and protracted process by which Virginia's westernmost territory achieved statehood. By the early 1780s, survival of the Kentucky settlements, so uncertain only a few years earlier, was assured. The end of the American Revolution curtailed British support for Indian raids, and thousands of settlers sought a better life in the "Eden of the West." They sw...
