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The House on Tradd Street

Karen White

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

1st in series 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This book has everything - an intriguing story line involving missing diamonds from the Civil War, ghosts (good AND bad), location (historic Charleston), a hero with a secret, a bad guy with his own secret, Melanie Middleton who has a long way to go for the peaceful well-ordered life she wants and the house on Tradd Street which brings them all together.

A great mystery, a love story and a ghost story make for an enjoyable read.

The 2nd book in this series will be out in November, 2009.

Editorial Review:

A brilliant, chilling series debut, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses—and the secret histories inside them.

Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she’s going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog—and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets.

Enter Jack Trenholm, a gorgeous writer obsessed with unsolved mysteries. He has reason to believe that diamonds from the Confederate Treasury are hidden in the house. So he turns the charm on with Melanie, only to discover he’s the smitten one...

It turns out Jack’s search has caught the attention of a malevolent ghost. Now, Jack and Melanie must unravel a mystery of passion, heartbreak—and even murder.

Ghosts Caught On Film

Melvyn Willin

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Rise in public interest fuelled by TV shows such as Most Haunted, about to broadcast its 9th series and Afterlife, averaging 6 million viewers.

This is the only book of its kind showing the paranormal caught on camera.

Contains intriguing images investigated by the Society for Psychical Research.

Ghost 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. The book features early photographs from the Society for Psychical Research of psychics and mediums producing ectoplasm, ghost pictures and other paranormal phenomena as well as celebrated modern images such as the Hampton Court ghost. Each picture is accompanied by a description of its circumstances and the steps taken by Willin, the Society for Psychical Research and the Royal Photographic Society to establish that there is no `normal' explanation for the phenomena. The incredible photographs will stimulate the interest of everyone who sees them. Whether you are a complete sceptic or a semi-believer, you can't help but be drawn into the mystery.

The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)

Shirley Jackson

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Total reviews: 328 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages.

Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words." Eleanor has always sensed that one day something big would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events. A paranormal incident from Eleanor's childhood qualifies her to be a part of Montague's bizarre study--along with headstrong Theodora, his assistant, and Luke, a well-to-do aristocrat. They meet at Hill House--a notorious estate in New England.

Hill House is a foreboding structure of towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms--a place "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...."

Although Eleanor's initial reaction is to flee, the house has a mesmerizing effect, and she begins to feel a strange kind of bliss that entices her to stay. Eleanor is a magnet for the supernatural--she hears deathly wails, feels terrible chills, and sees ghostly apparitions. Once again she feels isolated and alone--neither Theo nor Luke attract so much eerie company. But the physical horror of Hill House is always subtle; more disturbing is the emotional torment Eleanor endures. Intense, literary, and harrowing, The Haunting of Hill House belongs in the same dark league as Henry James's classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. --Naomi Gesinger

How to be a Ghost Hunter

Richard Southall

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

So you want to investigate a haunting? This book is full of practical advice used in the author's own ghost- hunting practice. Find out whether you're dealing with a ghost, spirit, or an entity … and discover the one time when you should stop what you're doing and call in an exorcist. Learn the four-phase procedure for conducting an effective investigation, how to capture paranormal phenomena on film, record disembodied sounds and voices on tape, assemble an affordable ghost-hunting kit, and form your own paranormal group.

For anyone with time and little money to spend on equipment, this book will help you maintain a healthy sense of skepticism and thoroughness while you search for authentic evidence of the paranormal.

Selling Features
-- Written by a paranormal investigator with fifteen years of experience, focusing on practical advice
-- The only handbook that details how to form paranormal groups, research a suspected haunted area, and practice effective eyewitness interview techniques.
-- Provides contact information on paranormal organizations and supply warehouses for hard-to-find materials (electromagnetic detectors, infrared film, etc.)

Hell House

Richard Matheson

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Total reviews: 149 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

When curiosity kills more than a cat 3 out of 5 stars.
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I picked this up because I adore haunted house stories, they're a nice juicy break when I'm in the mood for something wicked and I was curious about it after hearing everyone always recommending it as the scariest haunted house book ever. Well, it's not the scariest, in the least, I was disappointed that it never chilled me but it was entertaining and it didn't shy away form the usual formula these novels follow.

Abandoned and left to decay, the Belasco house is called the Hell House because of horrific and despicable acts that took place there in the early 1900's leaving the building enveloped in a thick, cloying coat of black aura and seeping negative energy. Years ago some very indulgent and immoral parties took place in the once great house but overtime the madness got so big that the energy couldn't be contained and everyone that indulged there disappeared and was never heard form again. All the expeditions that were send to demystify the bizarre happenings have turned up dead, all but one man, Benjamin Franklin Fischer, and twenty years later he is back at the dark, heavy doors with a new team and perhaps a new way of battling the demons of his past. Accompanied by Dr. Barrett, a physicist and his wife Edith along with Florence Tanner who's a medium, the small group gets a salary form a dying millionaire and is send to prove any facts they can about survival, mainly about surviving death since the Hell House is anything but abandoned even thought no one dares to live there. Each character has his and her own reason for wanting to prove something, but not everyone is as passionate about saving any souls form the house as Florence, whose extreme openness makes me vulnerable form the start. It isn't long before everyone starts bickering about what really haunts the house when the manifestations grow form eerie to violent and intense. Tour of the house reveals perverse and perhaps dirty photos and art that give it a menacing feel and it touches the female characters as they have some major issues with their own $exuality. The spirit of Emeric Belasco is not only always present but those who dined and partied in his house also seem present, keen on keeping the new guests trapped forever.

Overall I liked the story, it was interesting and had a nice feel to it, but it wasn't very scary, I enjoyed that the haunting started manifesting rather quickly, there was no beating around the bush but I felt that the characters fell a little flat and were slightly underdeveloped. The most annoying was the medium; Florence Tanner. She was a necessary vehicle for unleashing the evil but she was so susceptible and weak that she made me angry, always putting everyone else in danger with her actions. In the end we were supposed to care about her but I found it hard, she disagreed with the doctor and was always protected by Fischer, why, I don't know, it was never really clear and the weirdness between the doctors and his wife was also suddenly almost uncomfortable. An older couple who never lie close and are never tender, only polite and professional towards each other suddenly have issues in a haunted house that is famous for it's perversions, hmmm big surprise there...can you guess what happens? Another annoying bit - after the scares, and beating and blood the characters kept coming back to the house, I swear the book almost begged for revolving doors because they just couldn't stay away...dead bodies, possessions, flying tables, who cares, lets all sit at the table and finish our pork chops and peas then wash it down with coffee, never mind that half way though someone can be killed......It's almost as if the ego to solve the mystery was bigger than everyone's desire to salvage what they had left and live. I did like one part of the ending, when a chunk of the mystery is finally revealed, it was a little kick in the gut and I said out loud " No way!" and it certainly added to the book but it didn't make it a perfect horror novel. I say read it, enjoy and don't get too annoyed, and I will certainly read more of Matheson, his ideas are interesting and he's a talent in the literary world.

- Kasia S.

Editorial Review:

Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.

Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House.

The Uninvited: The True Story of the Union Screaming House

Steven A. LaChance

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Steven LaChance was forever transformed by the paranormal attacks that drove him and his family from their home in Union, Missouri. When another family falls victim to the same dark entity, Steven returns to the dreaded house to offer aid and find healing. Paranormal investigators, psychics, and priests are consulted, but no relief is found. The demon's presence - screams, growls, putrid odours, invisible shoves, bites, and other physical violations - only grow worse. Steven chronicles how this supernatural predator infects those around it. But the one who suffers most is the current homeowner, Helen. When the entity takes possession and urges Helen toward murder and madness, Steven must engage in a hair-raising battle for her soul."The Uninvited" is a true and terrifying tale of extreme haunting, demon possession, and an epic struggle between good and evil. Steven LaChance is the producer and host of "Haunted Survivor", a local radio show in St. Louis. His story was featured on The Discovery Channel's "A Haunting" and in the documentary film "Children of the Grave". His experiences at the Union house inspired him to form the Missouri Paranormal Research society. Steven speaks at paranormal conferences, and this year he will be traveling across the nation with the Haunted Survivors Tour.

Our Haunted Lives: True Life Ghost Encounters

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Total reviews: 21 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Ghost encounters are happening everyday to people everywhere, and the events prove that we are not alone. When people encounter what they perceive to be a ghost or spirit, their lives are forever changed. The ultimate question - Is there life after death? - has just been answered for them. Ghosts cross every culture and continent, and the belief in their existence is on the rise. Our Haunted Lives features the stories of dozens of people who have witnessed the supernatural firsthand in their homes, at work, and in numerous other locations.

Our Haunted Lives explores the profound nature of ghosts and spirits. Through personal interviews, the author captures the many different facets of the experience - the touching, where people come in contact with a loved one who's passed on; the funny, where pranks are played or peculiar disembodied sounds are heard; and the frightening, where people still feel shaken by what they saw, heard, and felt.

Ghosts are unbiased - they appear to people from all walks of life, ages, cultures, and religious backgrounds. Our Haunted Lives features accounts from famous hauntings, such as an extensive interview with George Lutz - the man whose experiences with the paranormal in Amityville, Long Island launched debates, books, and movies. You'll hear from police officers who were the first on the scene after a homeowner reported a break-in, only to find the disturbance wasn’t caused by someone living. Doctors who had a brush with the supernatural after losing a patient on the operating table will speak about the very emotional and profound events they witnessed.

No, we are not alone.

The Haunting of Josie

Kay Hooper

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Before writing such New York Times bestselling thrillers as Blood Dreams and Sleeping with Fear, Kay Hooper made her mark with novels uniquely blending romance and suspense. In this new edition of The Haunting of Josie, Hooper brings together the themes that have remained at the heart of all her work—passion, danger, and a touch of the paranormal—in this classic story of a woman haunted by the past and tempted by a man too irresistible to trust.…

Josie Douglas came to the isolated country cottage with her research, a good alibi, and a gun. She hoped that she’d have enough time to unravel the facts behind the tragedy that years before shattered her life. Instead she found herself in a house haunted by its own dark history. A series of strange coincidences, a ghostly visitor, and a mysterious brass key provide Josie with tantalizing clues to a mystery that keeps her guessing at every turn. As does Marc Westbrook—a landlord who embodies the meaning of the term drop-dead gorgeous. Soon she’ll have to trust him with the secret that drove her into seclusion—a secret that has already cost one man she loved his life.

The Ghost Next Door: True Stories of Paranormal Encounters from Everyday People

Mark Alan Morris

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"A collection of chilling stories...eerily believable and truly spooky...very strongly recommended..."--Midwest Book Review

Most people think of ghosts as rare, elusive creatures that are more or less inaccessible to the average Joe. Sure, we read about them, watch TV shows about them and tell stories about them, but we'll probably never run into one--right? Don't be so sure. Even if you've never personally encountered a ghost, chances are you know someone who has.

The Ghost Next Door takes a revealing look into the lives of average, everyday people from across the country who have had experiences in the realm of the unexplained. Whether you're a true believer in ghosts or a hard-nosed skeptic, you're sure to get a chill or two when you read about the woman who was visited by her grandfather...on the night of his funeral! Or the man who was forced to move by a troublesome spirit...only to find it had followed him!

As you make your way through these and other genuinely spooky stories, you'll probably find that ghostly encounters are a lot more common than you had imagined. Could there be a "haunted house" in your town? Perhaps on your very street? Maybe even right next door?

Haunted

Heather Graham

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A Good Paranormal Time 4 out of 5 stars.
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Haunted is the story of Darcy, a professional paranormal investigator, and Matt, the local sheriff and owner of an old mansion with many unexplained activities happening. Beginning with Darcy's initiation into the paranormal, the story covers the ground of what's really haunting the mysterious Lee Room in Melody House, Matt's ancestral home. This being a romance, the sparks fly soon and often between Darcy and Matt, even though he's an open skeptic and she senses the ghosts that live in his house.

The writing is good in this novel; Graham has obviously done her research in that she presents paranormal investigators realistically, even incorporating real tools of the trade. There are a myriad of characters, which at times seems confusing; a few are caricatures, but overall the dialogue is witty and engaging. The attraction between Dary and Matt is edgy and tense, but the romance side of it isn't as fully developed. But overall this book achieves its goal of being both creepy and sexy, and it's highly readable and entertaining. If you can look past the actions of a few characters, you'll enjoy this one.

Editorial Review:

When guests and staff complain of a ghostly presence in Melody House, a Colonial manor in Virginia, the owner must concede that something otherworldy is going on. He reluctantly hires a "ghostbusting" firm, who investigate a murder that supposedly occurred in the nineteenth century. But the more they investigate, the more they begin to believe that another murder has taken place more recently.