Spooky Pennsylvania

Spooky Pennsylvania
Author: S. E. Schlosser
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1493044788

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for thirty-eight creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Pennsylvania. Set in the Keystone State’s big cites, rural communities, rugged mountains, and vast woodlands, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have readers looking over their shoulders again and again. Pennsylvania’s folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and in artist Paul Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. Readers will meet the phantom drummer of Valley Forge, cheer on the ghost who haunts a bowling alley in Allentown, search for the mysterious jail cell handprint in Carbon County, and feel an icy wind on the back of their necks on a warm Pennsylvania evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma’s, this is a collection to treasure.

True Ghost Stories of Lancaster County Pennsylvania

True Ghost Stories of Lancaster County Pennsylvania
Author: Dorothy Burtz Fiedel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

A collection of true accounts of ghosts and other mysteries in the heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, including the Manor Street mystery, the beast in the basement, the Hempfield haunting, the Marietta ghost walk and others.

The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories

The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories
Author: Mark Nesbitt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2019-07-17
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1493043935

Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Keystone State Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Authors Mark Nesbitt and Patty A. Wilson shine a light in the dark corners of Pennsylvania and scare those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From apparitions of fires and soldiers struggling in the cold at Valley Forge, to ghostly children stalking dormitories at Gettysburg College, these stories of strange occurrences are sure to send a chill up your spine. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.

Ghost

Ghost
Author: Katherine Ramsland
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2002-10-13
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780312983734

The author of Prism of the Night takes readers into the world of real-life ghost hunters, revealing their high- and low-tech methods for rooting out spirits.

Memory and the English Reformation

Memory and the English Reformation
Author: Alexandra Walsham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108829996

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare

Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1542
Release: 1978
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

Explains the historical, legendary, and mythological background of 38 plays and 2 narrative poems.