With entries that range from specific works to authors, folklore, and popular culture (including music, film, television, urban legend, and gaming), this book provides a single-volume resource on all things ghostly in the United States and in other countries. The concept of ghosts has been an ongoing and universal element in human culture as far back as recorded history can document. In more modern popular culture and entertainment, ghosts are a popular mainstay-from A Christmas Carol and Casper the Friendly Ghost to The Amityville Horror, Ghostbusters, Poltergeist, The Sixth Sense, and Ghost…mehr
With entries that range from specific works to authors, folklore, and popular culture (including music, film, television, urban legend, and gaming), this book provides a single-volume resource on all things ghostly in the United States and in other countries. The concept of ghosts has been an ongoing and universal element in human culture as far back as recorded history can document. In more modern popular culture and entertainment, ghosts are a popular mainstay-from A Christmas Carol and Casper the Friendly Ghost to The Amityville Horror, Ghostbusters, Poltergeist, The Sixth Sense, and Ghost Whisperer. This book comprehensively examines ghost and spirit phenomena in all its incarnations to provide readers with a holistic perspective on the subject. It presents insightful information about the contribution of a specific work or author to establish or further the evolution of ghost lore, rather than concentrating solely on the film, literature, music, or folklore itself. The book focuses on ghosts in western culture but also provides information about spirit phenomena and lore in international settings, as many of the trends in popular culture dealing with ghosts and spirits are informed by authors and filmmakers from Germany, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom. The writers and editors are experts and scholars in the field and enthusiastic fans of ghost lore, ghost films, ghost hunting, and urban legends, resulting in entries that are informative and engaging-and make this the most complete and current resource on ghost and spirit lore available.
June Pulliam teaches courses on horror fiction and adolescent literature at Louisiana State University. She edits Dead Reckonings: A Review Magazine for the Horror Field and wrote Encyclopedia of the Zombie. She lives in Baton Rouge.
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Acknowledgments Introduction A-Z Entries American Horror Story: Murder House Amish Haunting Amityville Horror, The Angels of Mons Animal Ghosts Annabelle Apparition Narrative Arabian Nights, The Ash Wednesday Audrey Rose Awakening, The Bag of Bones Battlefield Ghosts Beckoning Fair One, The Beetlejuice Belief Studies Bell Witch Beloved Bhoot Bither, Doris "Black Cat, The" Blackwood, Algernon Blair Witch Project, The Blithe Spirit Bloody Mary Book of the Spirits, The Borley Rectory Campbell, Ramsey Canal, The Candyman Canterville Ghost, The Casper "Casting the Runes" Castle of Otranto, The Certain Slant of Light, A Changeling, The Children's Books Child's Play Series Chinese Ghost Story, A Christmas Carol, A Comedy Conan Doyle, Arthur Conjuring, The Crawford, F. Marion Crossing Over with John Edward Dark Water Dead Files, The Dead Silence Detective Fiction Día de los Muertos Dolls Earthbound Spirits Ectoplasm Enfield Poltergeist Entity, The Espiritismo Eye, The Feng Shui Field of Dreams Flying Dutchman Fog, The Folklore 1408 Fox Sisters Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins Frighteners, The Gender Ghost Ghost Adventures Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Ghost Bikes Ghost Festival Ghost Hunters Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, The "Ghost Riders in the Sky" Ghost Story Ghost Story for Christmas, A "Ghost Town" Ghost Whisperer Ghostbusters Ghosts Know Ghostwatch Goosebumps Series Gothic, The Grave Encounters Greco-Roman Ghosts Greenbrier Ghost Guiley, Rosemary Ellen Haint Halloween Haunted and the Haunters, The Haunted Houses Haunting of Hill House, The Headless Horseman Heart-Shaped Box Hell House Hill, Joe Hodgson, William Hope Hoffmann, E. T. A. Hook, The "Hotel California" Houdini, Harry House on Haunted Hill, The House on Nazareth Hill, The Hungry Ghosts Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai Innocents, The Insidious Series Inspector Calls, An Internet Ghosts Irving, Washington Jackson, Shirley James, Henry James, M. R. "James Gang" Janghwa, Hongryeon Ju-On: The Grudge Kairo King, Stephen Kwaidan LaLaurie Mansion Le Fanu, J. S. "Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The" Leiber, Fritz Llorona, La Long Island Medium Lost Boy Lost Girl Lovely Bones, The Medieval Ghosts Medium Mediums Mirrors Molesworth, Mary Louisa Mostellaria Mumler, William H. Museums and Libraries Music, Jazz and Blues Music, Popular Music, Traditional and Folk Myrtles Plantation Mysteries of Udolpho, The Native American Ghosts in Films Necromancy Neo-Victorian Ghost Stories Nightmare on Elm Street, A 9/11 Ghost Fiction Odyssey, The Old English Baron, The Onions, Oliver Orfanato, El Others, The Ouija Board Paranormal Societies Paranormal Television Parapsychology Pliny the Younger Poe, Edgar Allan Poltergeist Poltergeists Pornography Possession Price, Harry Purgatory Randi, James Renaissance/Romantic Period Revenant Revenge Riddell, Charlotte Ring Franchises "Sandmann, Der" "Schalken the Painter" Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Séance Séance on a Wet Afternoon Séances Shadow People Shining, The "Signalman, The" Six Feet Under Sixth Sense, The (Film) Sixth Sense, The (Television Series) Slender Man Society for Psychical Research Soul, The Space Ghost Spectre, The Spectrophilia Spirit Photography "Spirit Rappings" Spiritualism Stead, W. T. Stir of Echoes, A Straub, Peter Supernatural Suzuki, Koji Theaters 13 Ghosts Topper "True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal, The" Turn of the Screw, The 20th Century Ghosts Two Thousand Maniacs! Ugetsu Uncanny, The Unfriended Uninvited, The Vanishing Hitchhiker Victorian Era Video Games "Warning to the Curious, A" Warren, Ed and Lorraine Wharton, Edith What Lies Beneath White Noise Witch of Endor Woman in Black, The (Novel and Play) Woman Warrior, The Women Authors Wuthering Heights Young Adult Fiction Yurei Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction A-Z Entries American Horror Story: Murder House Amish Haunting Amityville Horror, The Angels of Mons Animal Ghosts Annabelle Apparition Narrative Arabian Nights, The Ash Wednesday Audrey Rose Awakening, The Bag of Bones Battlefield Ghosts Beckoning Fair One, The Beetlejuice Belief Studies Bell Witch Beloved Bhoot Bither, Doris "Black Cat, The" Blackwood, Algernon Blair Witch Project, The Blithe Spirit Bloody Mary Book of the Spirits, The Borley Rectory Campbell, Ramsey Canal, The Candyman Canterville Ghost, The Casper "Casting the Runes" Castle of Otranto, The Certain Slant of Light, A Changeling, The Children's Books Child's Play Series Chinese Ghost Story, A Christmas Carol, A Comedy Conan Doyle, Arthur Conjuring, The Crawford, F. Marion Crossing Over with John Edward Dark Water Dead Files, The Dead Silence Detective Fiction Día de los Muertos Dolls Earthbound Spirits Ectoplasm Enfield Poltergeist Entity, The Espiritismo Eye, The Feng Shui Field of Dreams Flying Dutchman Fog, The Folklore 1408 Fox Sisters Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins Frighteners, The Gender Ghost Ghost Adventures Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Ghost Bikes Ghost Festival Ghost Hunters Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, The "Ghost Riders in the Sky" Ghost Story Ghost Story for Christmas, A "Ghost Town" Ghost Whisperer Ghostbusters Ghosts Know Ghostwatch Goosebumps Series Gothic, The Grave Encounters Greco-Roman Ghosts Greenbrier Ghost Guiley, Rosemary Ellen Haint Halloween Haunted and the Haunters, The Haunted Houses Haunting of Hill House, The Headless Horseman Heart-Shaped Box Hell House Hill, Joe Hodgson, William Hope Hoffmann, E. T. A. Hook, The "Hotel California" Houdini, Harry House on Haunted Hill, The House on Nazareth Hill, The Hungry Ghosts Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai Innocents, The Insidious Series Inspector Calls, An Internet Ghosts Irving, Washington Jackson, Shirley James, Henry James, M. R. "James Gang" Janghwa, Hongryeon Ju-On: The Grudge Kairo King, Stephen Kwaidan LaLaurie Mansion Le Fanu, J. S. "Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The" Leiber, Fritz Llorona, La Long Island Medium Lost Boy Lost Girl Lovely Bones, The Medieval Ghosts Medium Mediums Mirrors Molesworth, Mary Louisa Mostellaria Mumler, William H. Museums and Libraries Music, Jazz and Blues Music, Popular Music, Traditional and Folk Myrtles Plantation Mysteries of Udolpho, The Native American Ghosts in Films Necromancy Neo-Victorian Ghost Stories Nightmare on Elm Street, A 9/11 Ghost Fiction Odyssey, The Old English Baron, The Onions, Oliver Orfanato, El Others, The Ouija Board Paranormal Societies Paranormal Television Parapsychology Pliny the Younger Poe, Edgar Allan Poltergeist Poltergeists Pornography Possession Price, Harry Purgatory Randi, James Renaissance/Romantic Period Revenant Revenge Riddell, Charlotte Ring Franchises "Sandmann, Der" "Schalken the Painter" Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Séance Séance on a Wet Afternoon Séances Shadow People Shining, The "Signalman, The" Six Feet Under Sixth Sense, The (Film) Sixth Sense, The (Television Series) Slender Man Society for Psychical Research Soul, The Space Ghost Spectre, The Spectrophilia Spirit Photography "Spirit Rappings" Spiritualism Stead, W. T. Stir of Echoes, A Straub, Peter Supernatural Suzuki, Koji Theaters 13 Ghosts Topper "True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal, The" Turn of the Screw, The 20th Century Ghosts Two Thousand Maniacs! Ugetsu Uncanny, The Unfriended Uninvited, The Vanishing Hitchhiker Victorian Era Video Games "Warning to the Curious, A" Warren, Ed and Lorraine Wharton, Edith What Lies Beneath White Noise Witch of Endor Woman in Black, The (Novel and Play) Woman Warrior, The Women Authors Wuthering Heights Young Adult Fiction Yurei Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors Index
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