Alice Vernon

Ghosted

A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A social, historical and scientific exploration of ghost-hunting, and why our fascination with the paranormal is as timeless as the ghosts we hope to find.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 141mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781399418706
• ISBN-10: 139941870X
• Artikelnr.: 72603672

Autorenporträt

Alice Vernon

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Enter the Séance Room
2. Spirit Committees
3. Haunted Houses
4. The Ghost in the Stereoscope
5. Summerland
6. The Ghosts of War
7. The Ghost Laboratory
8. The Poltergeist Next Door
9. Haunted Objects, Haunted People
10. Who You Gonna Call?
Conclusion
Introduction
1. Enter the Séance Room
2. Spirit Committees
3. Haunted Houses
4. The Ghost in the Stereoscope
5. Summerland
6. The Ghosts of War
7. The Ghost Laboratory
8. The Poltergeist Next Door
9. Haunted Objects, Haunted People
10. Who You Gonna Call?
Conclusion

Rezensionen

Engaging … Ghosted explores the shifting balance of power between mediums and investigators — the traumatised grief of desperate World War I parents giving way to the macho nerd-dom of the modern "ghost-hunter," out for spectral scalps and YouTube hits … Vernon's real subject is the basic need to believe, as true now as at the turn of the last century. Indeed, perhaps it's more vital — and human — than ever before.