› › Haunted Border

Haunted Border

Author : Patrick Dearen

Publisher : Speaking Volumes

Page : 212 pages

File Size : 28,83 MB

Release :

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1645407489

Get eBook

Book Description

2022 Elmer Kelton Award Winner Spur Award-Winning Author Patrick Dearen "Fast-paced, gripping, and exciting . . . An unusual but interesting concept for a western story."—Historical Novel Society. In 1870, Jake Graves faced a choice: allow Comanches to carry off his sister, or shoot her. Unwilling to fire, he has been tortured for decades by the brutal end that he could have spared her. The incident bred in him a hatred for Indians that persists to this day in 1917 on the Cross C Ranch on the Texas-Mexico border. Now Jake learns that his daughter Dru wants to marry Apache foreman Nub DeJarnett. Even before Jake can process the news, Mexican bandits kidnap Dru and her cousin Ruthie. The bandit leader, Rentería, considers himself a tlahuelpuchi, a shape-shifting agent of evil, and he needs the women’s blood to survive. Whether man or monster, Rentería is a killer. Through a stretch of Chihuahuan Desert teeming with mystery, Jake and Nub take up the chase on horseback, for Rentería believes that Dru is his reincarnated sister and plans to slay her on the Rio Grande where his sister became his first kill. Haunted Border is based on a taped account by a survivor of the true-life Brite Ranch Raid of 1917.



Haunted Landscapes

Author : Ruth Heholt

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 44,94 MB

Release : 2016-11-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1783488832

Get eBook

Book Description

Haunted Landscapes offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural. Landscapes are often uncanny spaces embroiled in the past; associated with absence, memory and nostalgia. Yet experiences of haunting must in some way always belong to the present: they must be felt. This collection of essays opens up new and compelling areas of debate around the concepts of haunting, affect and landscape. Landscape studies, supernatural studies, haunting and memory are all rapidly growing fields of enquiry and this book synthesises ideas from several critical approaches – spectral, affective and spatial – to provide a new route into these subjects. Examining urban and rural landscapes, haunted domestic spaces, landscapes of trauma, and borderlands, this collection of essays is designed to cross disciplines and combine seemingly disparate academic approaches under the coherent locus of landscape and haunting. Presenting a timely intervention in some of the most pressing scholarly debates of our time, Haunted Landscapes offers an attractive array of essays that cover topics from Victorian times to the present.



The Haunted Land

Author : Tina Rosenberg

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 465 pages

File Size : 37,61 MB

Release : 2010-11-24

Category : History

ISBN : 0307773582

Get eBook

Book Description

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe



Haunted U.S. Battlefields

Author : Mary Beth Crain

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 43,28 MB

Release : 2021-07-15

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 1493045911

Get eBook

Book Description

Do places where violent deaths occur somehow absorb the horror, only to conjure up images that haunt the living for generations to come? Many people believe that this can indeed happen; above all, in the context of that manmade phenomenon that reaps so great a toll in so short a time: War. Haunted U.S. Battlefields takes us on a spine-tingling tour of America's most legendary spectral scenes of human struggle—from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, from the Indian Wars to World War II and beyond. As America's bloodiest conflict, the Civil War has yielded the greatest number of ghostly sightings. Hence, most of the twenty-five battlefield legends this book relates are from this era—whether the myriad strange spectral happenings associated with Gettysburg, or this war's lesser known but equally tragic events. Summing up the eerie essence of wartime scenes across America—many of which today host popular ghost tours—Haunted U.S. Battlefields is a must for students of the paranormal, Civil War buffs, and all others interested in a spine-chilling realm of military history that the history books don't dare tell.



Real Ghost Stories

Author : William Thomas Stead

Publisher : London : G. Richards

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 48,33 MB

Release : 1897

Category : Ghost stories

ISBN :

Get eBook

Book Description



The Border Magazine

Author : Nicholas Dickson

Publisher :

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 39,12 MB

Release : 1910

Category : Scotland

ISBN :

Get eBook

Book Description



This Haunted Isle

Author : Peter Underwood

Publisher : Peter Underwood

Page : 393 pages

File Size : 33,24 MB

Release : 1993

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN :

Get eBook

Book Description

Peter Underwood has personally visited the historic buildings and sites of Britain, and here presents a wealth of intriguing legends and new stories of ghostly encounters from more than a hundred such throughout the United Kingdom. From Abbey House in Cambridge to Zennor in Cornwall, this is an A to Z of the haunted houses of Britain. At Bramshill in Hampshire — now a police training college — there have been so many sightings that even sceptical police officers have had to admit that the place is haunted. Beautiful Leeds Castle in Kent has a large, phantom black dog; there is an Elizabethan gentleman (seen by a Canon of the Church of England!) at Croft Castle; a Pink Lady at Coughton Court; a prancing ghost jester at Gawsworth; a spectre in green velvet at Hoghton Tower; six ghosts at East Riddlesden Hall; a headless apparition at Westwood Manor; and then there are some little-known ghosts in Windsor Castle, Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London, and the strange ghosts of Chingle Hall, perhaps the most haunted house in England.



Strange South Carolina

Author : Sherman Carmichael

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 45,20 MB

Release : 2015-11-30

Category : History

ISBN : 1625856040

Get eBook

Book Description

South Carolina is well known for beaches, barbecue and palmetto trees, but plenty of mystery lies behind the idyllic façade. Some residents once claimed to be tormented by a creature that was part lizard and part man. South of the Border is one of the more famous and unique tourist attractions in the state--complete with a giant sombrero. Lynches River is the only river in the nation that crosses under the same bridge three times. Peachtree Rock Heritage Preservation in Lexington County is home to one of the most unusual natural formations in the United States. Author Sherman Carmichael details these and more in a collection of stories that can be found only in the Palmetto State.



Haunted Maine

Author : Charles A. Stansfield

Publisher : Stackpole Books

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 23,53 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 9780811733731

Get eBook

Book Description

Tales of pirates, witches, and other amazing denizens of the state of Maine. A fun look at spooky legends and stories of the paranormal, including the guardian spirit of Portland Head Light, the preacher and the cats from Hell, the ghost of Marie Antoinette, the ghost who toasts independence, and the logger who befriended the Devil. Other titles in series: Haunted Connecticut Haunted Delaware Haunted Jersey Shore Haunted Massachusetts Haunted New Jersey Haunted New York Haunted Pennsylvania



Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture

Author : Julian Wolfreys

Publisher : Springer

Page : 261 pages

File Size : 47,65 MB

Release : 2018-10-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3319980890

Get eBook

Book Description

Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach grounded in close reading, the text places Jacques Derrida’s work on spectrality in dialogue with particular aspects of phenomenology. The volume explores writing and culture from the 1880s to the present day, proceeding through four sections examining related questions of identity, memory, the landscape, and our modern relationship to the past. Julian Wolfreys presents a theoretically informed understanding of the efficacy of literature and culture in connecting us to the past in an affective and engaged manner.