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Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.
From Arsenic to Zinc, a look at the basics of Victorian mourning objects and practices. Primary sources provide contemporary context for these often-misunderstood nineteenth-century mourning rituals.
A collection of Ohio ghost stories and ghostlore from Native American tales to contemporary haunted houses.
A compilation of 19th and early 20th-century newspaper and journal articles on ghosts, hauntings, Forteana, and supernatural mysteries with commentary and annotations by Chris Woodyard.
Tales of ghosts and haunted houses from around Ohio.
Posthuman Gothic is an edited collection of thirteen chapters, and offers a structured, dialogical contribution to the discussion of the posthuman Gothic. Contributors explore the various ways in which posthuman thought intersects with Gothic textuality and mediality. The texts and media under discussion – from I am Legend to In the Flesh, and from Star Trek to The Truman Show, transgress the boundaries of genre, moving beyond the traditional scope of the Gothic. These texts, the contributors argue, destabilise ideas of the human in a number of ways. By confronting humanity and its Others, they introduce new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as human. Drawing on key texts of b...
19th- and early 20th-c. stories of ghosts, monsters, and hauntings from around the US.
Tales of ghosts and haunted houses from around Ohio.
USA Today "New and Noteworthy" • One of The Washington Post's "10 Books to Read—and Gift—in December" "Fascinating." —Forbes Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump was elected president. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never seemed more uncertain. Yet those who look close enough may recognize that signs of the next revolution are etched in plain view. This is Cuba is a true story that begins in the summer of 2009 when a young American photo-journalist is offered the chance of a lifetime—a two-year assignment in Havana. For David Ariosto, the island is an intriguing new world, unmoored from the one he left behind. From neighboring military coups, suspected honey traps, salty...
Traditional ghostlore collected from oral histories and family traditions around Ohio.