50 Great Ghost Stories
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Fiction | Fiction | 823.087208 C212G 1990 (Browse shelf) | Available | 11611 |
Includes Index and Illustrations.
50 Great Ghost Stories by John Canning, explores a number of legends and accounts involving ghosts and other supernatural and paranormal phenomena.
Much of what is written seems indeed to be taken from eyewitness accounts, and carefully recorded historical documentation, and does indeed put forward the case that ghosts do exist.
The stories are mainly set in Britain, but also involve accounts of ghosts in Egypt, India, China, Germany, France, Iceland, the United States, Canada and Australia.
These stories are rich in history, and we can learn a lot from them, as well as being entertained.
We read about the hauntings and mysterious deaths of those involved in unearthing Tutenkhamen's tomb, and other Ancient Egyptian burial sites; the accounts of the ghosts of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, executed on the orders of the brutal Henry VIII;The White Lady of Berlin; the tragic tales of the ghosts of children who met tragic and untimely ends, which excite pity as well as frightening people; the very different nature of ghosts in China, which are often indistinguishable from the living, and are frequently beautiful maidens who return from the other world, not to frighten man, but to play with him, tease him, make love to him, or help him in his tasks; and ghosts in India, spirits of those cruelly murdered during the 1957 Sepoy Rebellion, as well as the malignant demons known as the ayah.
These tales are both intricate and entertaining, and while all are eery and haunting, the circumstances, times and places vary as to the natures of the ghosts, who can be beautiful or hideous, playful, melancholy, spiteful, vicious and frigthening or simply fulfilling a quest unfulfilled in life.
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