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My aim here is to publish quality material in my favorite genres and articles on my favorite topics. Most of my work will be related to the paranormal, supernatural, metaphysical, hauntings, ghosts, ufos, ancient mysteries and folklore. I am also an avid reader and traveler,
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Squire's Castle, Willoughby, Ohio (Pictures)This is a reputed haunted spot in Ohio. -
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. (Pictures)Bonaventure Cemetery is a public cemetery east of Savannah, Georgia. The cemetery became famous when it was featured in the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, and in the movie, directed by Clint Eastwood. -
St. Augustine, Florida: Hugenot CemeteryBetween the city gates and the Visitor Information Center the Hugenot Cemetery was established in 1821 for the victims of a Yellow Fever epidemic. Many sightings take place at this cemetery.
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St Augustine, Florida: the Oldest (and Haunted) DrugstoreFilled with the curatives of days gone by. The Oldest drugstore, on the corner of Orange and Cordova Streets, is a snapshot of the past. -
St. Augustine, Florida: Hugenot CemeteryBetween the city gates and the Visitor Information Center the Huguenot Cemetery was established in 1821 for victims oa Yellow Fever epidemic. -
Lullaby by Chuck PalahniukEasily Palahniuk's best work, this book is dark, funny and philosophical. Helen Boover Boyle is a perfect Palahniuk hero: cynical and world-weary and yet capable of change and redemption.
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Heartsick by Chelsea CainTwo years ago, police detective Archie Sheridan was kidnapped and tortured by Gretchen Lowell. Lowell, a rather twisted serial killer nicknamed the Beauty Killer.
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The Assistant by Bernard MalamudSet in a neighborhood in New York City, the melting pot, early to mid 1900's amongst residents of various ethnic groups, Ida and Morris Boder, Jewish Russian immigrants, run a mom and pop grocery store.
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The Cave by Jose SaramagoGood literature should make you think...and by that definition, this is a very fine novel.
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'FarrellThis remarkable novel tells the sad tale of the fate that awaited women who didn't fit society's mold not all that many years ago.
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The Book of Illusions by Paul AusterZimmer, a professor at a college in Vermont, gets a phone call one day that his wife and two children have been killed in a plane crash.
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Underworld by Don DeLilloUnderworld by Don DeLillo is huge-huge in the way that the United States is huge. This book, like our nation, is crowded with people, places, events and inexhaustible energy.
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Grendel by John GardnerGrendel is a retelling of Beowulf from the monster's point of view. The monster is an outsider who spies on men from trees and cliffs, able to understand them and even speak a rudimentary form of their language.
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Beowulf by Seamus HeaneyThe oldest English poem composed between the middle of the seventh century and the end of the tenth century in the first millennium.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann SchafferSet in England and the Channel island of Guernsey immediately following World War II, we meet Juliet Ashton (our protagonist and writer) who suddenly receives a letter from Dawsey Adams.
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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin is rightly considered a seminal work of science fiction.
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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert HeinleinHeinleins's Stranger in a Strange Land is a fascinating commentary on our society. Although many of the specifics have changed since the sixties the underlying criticism of our society is as valid as it was almost 50 years ago.
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Affinity by Sarah WatersSarah Waters has written a gem of a book, a historical novel set in Victorian England in the 1870s.
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The House at Riverton by Kate MortonNinety-eight Grace Bradley knows the truth behind the incident at Riverton Manor in the 1920s. The incident, the purported suicide of poet Robbie Hunter.
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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe tale of Vida Winter's life began with the story of her parents, two people who were mired in an illicit relationship and who were most certainly mad.
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoNarrated by the 80-year-old Benedictine monk Adso, "The Name of the Rose" relates events that occurred over a one-week period in 1327 when Adso and his master, the English Franciscan monk William of Baskerville, visited an abbey in northern Italy.
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The Human Stain by Philip RothThe book opens in New England in the late 1990s-at a time when the country was stunned by a Presidential scandal and when conservatism, morality and political-correctness were beginning to take hold of the nation's consciousness.
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The Story of Lucy Gault by William TrevorThe story opens in Ireland in 1921. The Anglo-Irish Gaults feel under threat, fearing their home will be attacked. One night Captain Gault fires a shot at three lads, wounding one of them
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Once Were Warriors by Alan DuffDuff is a Maori writer, and this is a novel about brutal, wasted, stunted, twisted, thwarted lives in a dead-end stratum of society where there is no expectation of a better future, no love, no caring, no respect, a world where everyone is a victim.
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Altar of Eden by James RollinsSome books can be summarized with a single, high-concept sentence. That's never the case with Rollins.
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Boneshaker by Cherie PriestLecviticus Blue won a contest to drill for gold in the Klondike with his invention the Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine. Only problem was that on the first trial something went extremely wrong.
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Death at the Priory: Sex, Love, and Murder in Victorian England by James RuddickIt seems that Florence Bravo had married her husband Charles not out of love, but in order to restore her reputation in society.
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Glamorama by Brad Easton EllisIn Glamorama we laugh at the character of Victor Ward because he has a vacant sign located in his brain. He thinks global warming is a great new shampoo.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel SchriverKevin's birth is resented by his mother and she is unable to love him in the way that, later, she loves his sister. Then again, many babies are born into less-than-ideal families and they don't all turn out to be serial killers.
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Book Review: White Teeth by Zadie SmithWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith is an ambitious, yet, epic-in-scope novel. Starting in 1975 and continuing for two decades it tells the story of two families.
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Invisible Monsters by Chuck PalahniukInvisible Monsters is the story of a young woman (the name is never given until the very end) who has just suffered the traumatic experience of having the lower half of her jaw shot off.
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The Collector by John FowlesThis 1963 debut novel is a masterpiece of claustrophobic obsession. The story is told both from the viewpoints of the collector and the collected (we get to read Miranda's diary.
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Disgrace by J M CoetzeeThere are different levels of disgrace-those that are deserved and those that are not, both of which are at the heart of this book. Coetzee tells the story of the womanizing Professor Lurie with brutal honesty tempered by tenderness.
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenMemoirs of a Geisha is a part-romance novel, part-historical fiction weekend page-turner that gives the reader a westernized glimpse into the disquieting life of a geisha.
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The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim EdwardsThis book is about secrets and how they can control your life. A doctor, upon delivering his twins during a snowstorm in 1964, sees the telltale signs of Down's Syndrome in his baby girl and gives her to his nurse to bring to an institution.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonMary Katherine Blackwood (Merricat to her family) is walking home after a trip to the grocery store describing all the stares and name calling she must endure before finding herself back home and safely ensconced behind a locked door.
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Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie PriestCherie Priest's debut novel is pure Southern gothic horror, complete with a crumbling mansion filled with family secrets as well as hidden rooms, a creepy swamp, ghosts both good and bad, and dark magic.
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The House Next Store by Anne Rivers SiddonsAnne Rivers Siddons has written quite a few other novels in the family saga and drama genre but this appears to be the only horror/supernatural type book that she ever had published.
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The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London by Sarah WiseBishop and Williams were executed for the murder of 'the Italian boy'. Wise's book is the first to be written about the case, which has been largely forgotten whilst Burke and Hare have become household names.
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Ghost Story by Peter StraubIn 1929, five young men idealize a mysterious and terribly attractive woman that just moved into their small upstate New York town. Her name is Eva Galli. One night the worst thing, that could happen between the five young men and Eva Galli did happen.
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Cleveland, Ohio: The Old Stone ChurchOld Stone Church was born in the upper story of Cleveland's first log courthouse, a Public Square structure so primitive that historian Arthur Ludlow referred to it as "a place of advent almost as humble as the manger of Bethlehem." -
Cleveland, Ohio: The Soldiers' and Sailors' MonumentThe Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument commemorates the American Civil War; it consists of a 125' column surrounded at its base by a Memorial Room and esplanade. -
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersFirst and foremost, this is a mystery, and a very good one. If you knew your work would ruin another scholar who had arrived at his/her conclusions dishonestly, would you publish it?
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Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneSince I heard the movie was good, and the book is ALWAYS better than the movie, I dug up my copy of Shutter Island.
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Mystic River by Dennis LehaneMystic River is one of the best popular novels I've read in quite some time. The plot is gripping and unpredictable, and the characters are real and human.
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Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis LehaneUltimately, this story raises the question: what do you do when the law hurts more than it helps, and where do you draw the line between what's legal and what's right?
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The Somnambulist by Jonathan BarnesThe book has its roots in stream punk or gothic horror with a dark brooding picture of late Victorian London full of grotesques, human monsters, corruption, dystopian nightmares and sharp contrasts of poverty and wealth.
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Child 44 by Tom Rob SmithIn Stalinist Russia in the early 1950's crime was unthinkable. The State declared it was a worker's paradise, crime could not exist in such a paradise.
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline AlexanderShackleton set out on an Antarctic exploration mission just at the time of the outbreak of WWI.
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Whaleship Essex, out on one of its whaling journeys, is rammed by a whale. The ship is pretty much totaled and the men have to take to the whaleboats.
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike DashSurvivors of this shipwreck of the Batavia, were literally being held captive by a group of mutineers under the command/control of one single psychopathic individual.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg LarrsonThis much anticipated third installment of the Millennium Trilogy definitely lived up to the hype. The book picks up exactly where the second novel ended.
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The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThis second volume focuses squarely on young computer genius and social misfit Lisbeth Salander and her difficult adjustment with society.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is complex story of incest, industrial double crossing, computer hacking and misfits trying to fit in
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice MillardSubtitled Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, this tells the story of Roosevelt's trip into South America to map an unknown Amazon tributary after his defeat for a third Presidency.
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Poisonwood Bible is a family saga which begins in 1959 when Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist minister, moves from Georgia to the Belgium Congo with his wife and four daughters.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradConrad depicts a pre-politically correct age when white men thought it only fair and inevitable that they plunder the riches of Africa all the while comforting themselves that they were uplifting the fallen state of a lowly people.
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam HochschildThe story of how the king of Belgium ended up owning a huge swath of Africa as a private possession.
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout was a novel comprised of thirteen short stories about people living in rural Maine.
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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddWhen you read The Secret Life of Bees, just make sure you've got a jar of honey somewhere in the house. At some point you're going to need a spoonful, at least.
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroKazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is such a complex and involved story, due to not only the story itself but the implications of the issues brought forth in the story.
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When We Were Orphans by Kazuo IshiguroWhile on the surface, When We Were Orphans is a crime novel written in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle, in actuality it is a complex psychological study of a character stranded at a traumatic point in his childhood.
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The Aloysius Pendergast Series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln ChildBook Reviews: The Relic, Reliquary, Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life with Crows, Brimstone, Dance of Death, Book of the Dead, The Wheel of Darkness and Cemetery Dance.
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Perfume by Patrick SuskindThe novel follows a child born into abject poverty in 18th century France who rises to become the best perfumer/serial killer in the country.
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAnthony Burgess' 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange paints a horrifying, grim, dystopian future.
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The Birthing House by Christopher RansomSomething in the house has plans for Conrad, and in a series of terrifying events, he's about to discover the secrets buried inside "The Birthing House".
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The Monk by Matthew LewisFirst published in 1796 (after being written over a ten-week period by 20-year old Matthew Lewis), The Monk is one of the most gripping 18th-century novels I've ever read.
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Northanger Abbey by Jane AustenAlthough not published until after her death in 1818 (but more on that in a bit), Northanger Abbey was actually the first book written by infamous "chick-lit forerunner" Jane Austen.
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonA scientist and a group of hand-picked assistants comes to stay in Hill House, to investigate the phenomena in 'haunted houses.' We experience Hill House through the point of view of one of the assistants.
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Drood by Dan SimmonsThe real-life basis of Charles Dickens being one of the few survivors of an 1865 train wreck is coupled with the mystery surrounding his last, unfinished novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood".
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The Day of the Triffids by John WyndhamA man wakes up from a coma in a hospital bed. He soon realizes that the hospital is deserted. He goes outside and finds that he is the only "survivor" of a disaster that has left the streets of London empty and quiet.
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The Terror by Dan SimmonsThis exceedingly well written novel takes an historic event (the doomed arctic expedition of HMS Terror and HMS Erebus) and dramatizes it through insertion of Eskimo mythology.
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The Help by Kathryn StockettA well-done tale of class distinction and prejudice and of love and devotion that transcends racial and social boundaries.
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The Plague by Albert CamusThIn 1957, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. When doctors identified the first patients with symptoms of AIDS and for years American government leaders remained in a state of denial, many were reminded of this book.
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The Scar by China MievilleThe Scar is the third of Miéville's novels, and the second of his fantasy novels set in the world of Bas-Lag.
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Perdido Street Station by China MievillePerdido Street Station is a location in the city of New Crobuzon on the world of Bas-Lag. Far darker than Pratchett's Discworld Series, Bas-Lag bears a passing resemblance to our world, yet it is different.
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The City & the City by China MievilleI don't dare describe the storyline in The City & The City beyond the publisher's synopsis because I risk ruining the striking world that Mieville creates.
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Book Review: the Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroAt the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Mr. Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving "a great gentleman."
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Book Review: a Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo IshiguroMost of this novel is memory: a woman thinking about her daughter's suicide and remembering an earlier summer in post-War Nagasaki. Almost nothing happens in the present day. The whole story takes place in the past.
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Book Review: an Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroIn this book, Ishiguro brings alive post-war Japan from the Japanese perspective. It focuses on the life of Masuji Ono, an artist, father and grandfather.
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Book Review: the Unconsoled by Kazuo IshiguroThe plot is delightfully straightforward and simple. Mr. Ryder (the protagonist and narrator), a world-renowned pianist, arrived in some European city he could not identify to give a performance he simply failed to recall agreeing to give.
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Book Review: the Lost City of Z by David GrannThis book charts the life story of Percy Fawcett, an intrepid British explorer who was the last of the great explorers.
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Book Review: Blindness by Jose SaramagoJose Saramago published this novel in 1998 and in 2004 he wrote a sequel, Seeing.
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Book Review: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe prolific McMurtry comes from a large west Texas family that he has described as "cowboys firts and last." This novel was published in1985 and went on to win the Pulitzer.
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The Dexter Series by Jeff Lindsey. Comical, Yet, Deliciously DarkDexter is a serial killer who doesn't care for the sight of blood (ok, how funny is that?) and has a day job as a blood splatter analyst for the Miami Police Department. -
Book Review: the Woman in the Dunes by Kobo AbeI have been reading a lot of world literature lately and came upon this book about the nightmarish tyranny of the unknown.
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Book Review: the Bloody Chamber by Angela CarterI found this unique interpretation of the fairy tales of Western Europe carries all the hallmarks of Angela Carter's brilliance, both as a storyteller and a feminist social commentator.
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Book Review: the Witching Hour by Anne RiceThe first in the Mayfair Witches series, The Witching Hour introduces the fictional Mayfair family of New Orleans, generations of male and female witches.
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Book Review: the Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe Little Stranger is set in the bucolic countryside of 1947 Warwickshire, England, and centers upon strange happenings at Hundreds Hall, a decaying manor that is consuming the pocketbook and possibly the sanity of its aristocratic occupants.
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Book Review: Sacred Hearts by Sarah DunnantThe year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection.
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Book Review: the Devil's Queen by Jeanne KalogridisIn history there are individuals who are perceived as "bad" or "evil" and once tagged with that description, it seems to stick.
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Book Review: Out by Natsuo KirinoOut, to which I was originally drawn because I wanted to learn more about everyday life in Japan through the eyes of one of that country's best novelists, is my first real experience with modern Japanese fiction.
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Book Review: Slammerkin by Emma DonoghueSlammerkin is engaging, heartbreaking, bawdy, sometimes tender. It is based on the life of an actual young woman in Georgian England named Mary Saunders, and is peopled with a cast of real and fictional characters.
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Book Review: the Crimson Petal and the White by Michael FarberI'm always drawn to novels set in mid-to-late 19th Century London. I'm not sure why, really, I guess that particular time period and location just interests me.
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Book Review: Two Planets by Kurt LasswitzAlthough it was highly influential on German-language science fiction, this book only reached an English language audience as an abridged version of an audio book in 1971.
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Book Review: the Dress Lodger by Sheri HolmanTurn the pages of The Dress Lodger and you're turning the dial on a time machine. Destination: England, 1831.
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Book Review: in the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah DunnantAnyone who is fascinated by Venice (and who isn't?) will absolutely love In The Company of The Courtesan.
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Book Review: the Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafonThe Shadow of the Wind takes a line of betrayal, lost friendship, hatred, love, and dreams that lived in the shadow of the wind.
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Book Review: the Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario SpeziCrime stories, especially the violent sort, have captured the human imagination in a way that few other things have in the last few decades.
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Book Review: Psycho by Robert BlochThis is by far one of my favorite horror novels in the world. The chilling reputation of this novel has been somewhat overshadowed by Alfred Hitchcock's renowned film of the same name.
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Mount Penteli Greece: the Strange Goings on in Ntavelis's CaveAbout nine miles from the center of Athens, in Mount Penteli, is a huge cave connecting a series of subterranean tunnels.
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Book Review: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtPublished in 1994, this book did for Savannah tourism what Shakespeare did for Stratford-Upon-Avon.
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Book Review: the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiMurakami is one of Japan's most celebrated novelists, and this was his third work, published in Japanese in 1994 and 1995 in three separate volumes.
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Book Review: Planet of the Apes by Pierre BoulleFar more thought provoking than any of the films or even the television series. Boulle's satirical novel opens with a space exploring couple finding a canister.
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The Haunting of the New London Ledge LighthouseA Lighthouse near New London, Connecticut, is said to be haunted by the tormented spirit of one of its early keepers, known only as Ernie.
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The Haunting of Sawston HallA sixteenth-century house in Cambridgeshire, England, that is believed to be haunted by the ghosts of Mary Tudor and a gray lady.
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An Armchair Traveler's Guide to ItalyTraveling to Italy would be the experience of a lifetime, but for those of us on a really, really tight or non-existent budget, reading about Italy is the next best thing.
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The Book is Always Better Than the Movie-Part IIThe book is always better than the movie in most cases and if you read these novels you will agree too.
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Ghosts in LiteratureFrom The Odyssey to the Harry Potter books, the shades of people who used to live on the earth have haunted our stories. -
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe English Patient is a Booker Prize winner and the film won an academy award.
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The Castle of Otranto by Horace WalpoleArguably the first ever Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto reads like a spoof of the genre that was to emerge in later years.
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The Haunting of Newstead AbbeyFormer priory and home of poet Lord Byron, located in Nottinghamshire, England, that is said to be haunted by several ghosts.
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The Halcyon House HauntingLocated in the Georgetown district of Washington D. C. Halcyon House, built by Benjamin Stoddert, the first secretary of the US Navy, is said to be haunted.
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The Hofdi Poltergeist: an Icelandic HauntingIn early October 1986 Hofdi House, located on the outskirts of Reykjavik, Iceland, was thought to be the most haunted house in the world.
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The Book is Always Better Than the MovieThe book is always better than the movie and if you read these books you will find out why.
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France for BibliophilesFrance is so full of history. Take a tour of this fascination European country through some great books and learn a little along the way.
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Quinn's LightQuinn's Light is a strange ghostly phenomenon reported in Australia, similar to the corpse candles of the British Isles.
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2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C ClarkeScience fiction books leave a lot up to the imagination and are definitely a fun read.
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My Favorite Agatha Christie Novels Starring Hercule PoirotAgatha Christie wrote thirty-three mysteries in which Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solves crimes using "his littles grey cells."
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Agatha Christie's Greatest DetectivesThroughout her career, Agatha Christie created a number of characters who are legendary for their crime solving skills.
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The Haunting of Hull HouseIn 1913, Hull House, now a museum, was thought to be the home of a 'Devil Baby'. Even today visitors are still reporting feeling uncomfortable when touring the museum.
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A Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De MilleMuch like the work of his contemporary Jules Verne, De Mille's novel is set in far off lands where few people have traveled.
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Cities of the Dead: Gates Millls South Cemetery and Gates Mills North/Riverside Cemetery, Gates Mills, OhioIf a dead person's eyes are left open,he'll find someone to take with him.
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Gates Mills South Cemetery, Gates Mills, OhioGates Mills South Cemetery has 2.7 acres and the number of burials is unavailable. The First and oldest burial is William W. Eddy, age 3 in 1835. The earlier settlers of Gates Mills were likely to be buried in the South Cemetery. -
Gates Mills North/Riverside Cemetery, Gates Mills, OhioGates Mills North/Riverside North Cemetery has 371 burials so far and encompasses 2.9 acres, with 5 more acres for future burials. The first and oldest burial was Daniel Judd in 1810, and it is open from dawn till dusk. -
St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum, St. Augustine, Florida.The St. Augustine Lighthouse is one of the many sights to see in St. Augustine. It is painted a dramatic black and white and is still in use today. There is a restored two-story brick house that now contains exhibits, a period room and a video theater. -
Lake View Cemetery: Garfield Monument, Cleveland, Ohio.The James A. Garfield Monument is the final resting place of the 20th President of the United States of America and his family. This is one of Lake View's most famous monuments and was paid for with contributions from the citizens of the United States. -
Lakeview Cemetery: Wade Chapel, Cleveland, Ohio.The Jeptha Wade Memorial Chapel is the greatest architectural treasure at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. The peaceful elegance of the building belies the glittering grandeur of the interior, which was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. -
General Lee's Headquarters Museum, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.On July 1,1863, General Robert E. Lee and his staff occupied this stone house on historic SeminaryRidge while planning the Battle of Gettysburg. -
5 Great Urban Histories (or Books About Cities)These five books offer illuminating portraits of cities that are rich in vivid details and colorful anecdotes.
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Coral Castle, Homestead, FloridaCoral Castle is a very interesting place to visit. It is a home made of large coral blocks built by one man. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, Coral Castle draws about 65,000 visitors a year. -
DoubleTree Grand Key Resort, Key West, Florida.From the balconies in every room to the super-friendly concierge, everything about this hotel is TOP-NOTCH. Free shuttles on the hour all day and night to Duval Street!
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Key West Cemetery, Key West, Florida.Key West's historic 1847 Cemetery is located in the "dead" center of Old Town. Moved to higher ground after the 1847 hurricane disinterred bodies from the first burial ground, the whitewashed above-ground tombs and statues are fascinating.
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Key West, Florida.St. Paul's was the first church to be built in Key West. The original structure built in 1838 was constructed of coral rock. In 1846 and 1909, the church was destroyed by a hurricane and rebuilt twice. The stained glass windows are by Lloyd's of London,
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Ripley's World Famous Log House, St. Augustine, FloridaThis custom-built log house was hand-carved by Len Moore of Eureka, California in 1937. Made from a 267' tall (1900 year old) coastal Redwood tree. It was home to many owners, including Len for 8 yrs.
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Kalahari Resorts, Sandusky, OhioKalahari Resort is an African themed resort and water park. The indoor and out door water parks have some awesome rollercoaster -like slides and it looks like two football fields of pools and water park games and fun activities inside of the pools.
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Colonial WilliamsburgVirginia in the 18th-century is what Colonial Williamsburg takes you back to. It's almost like stepping into a time machine.
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Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia.Virginia in the 18th-century is what Colonial Williamsburg takes you back to. It's almost like stepping into a time machine.
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Bruton Parish Episcopal Church and Graveyard, Williamsburg, VirginiaThis Episcopal Church has been in continuous use since 1715.
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Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, D. C.The memorial was dedicated on July 27, 1995 which is the 42nd anniversary of the armistice that ended the war. The statues were made of stainless steel and are wearing ponchos walking toward the American Flag.
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Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, Ellenton, FloridaThe Gamble Plantation is the only surviving antebellum mansion in south Florida. It recalls a way of life in the south before the Civil War.
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Some More Hard-Riding Western NovelsThe old west was not as romantic as people thought. It was a land of violence, scarcity and unknown danger around every corner.
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Hard Riding Western NovelsWesterns are a whole different genre of literature. They conjure up the romance and the reality of the old west. Sometimes we even find that the good old days were not so good after all.
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Book Review: The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen KentThis book tells us about the horror of The Salem Witch Trials, and about man's inhumanity to other human beings.
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Book Review: the Song of Kali by Dan SimmonsDan Simmons is an author of many horror and science fiction novels.
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World War II Memorial, Washington D.C.900 Ohio Drive SW Washington, D.C., United States 20024 The memorial was officially opened to the public in April 2004 and it is a must see while walking around the monuments of Washington D.C.
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The Venetian Pool, Coral Gables, FloridaThe pool was created from a coral rock quarry in 1923 by Denman Fink and Phineas Paist. It has pink stucco towers, candy-cane Venetian poles, caves, a cobblestone bridge and waterfalls that surround the clear spring-fed waters.
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Mayfield Cemetery, Cleveland Hts., OhioMayfield Cemetery opened in 1890 and is the only garden-style Jewish cemetery in greater Cleveland.
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Akron Zoo, Akron Ohio.Here are some wonderful pictures of the Akron Zoo, in Akron, Ohio. Our famliy enjoys traveling and visiting many different places.
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Haunted Port Arthur, Tasmania: Hell on EarthThe tallest stretch of coastal cliffs in Australia, the blistering seas, and the dark, colossal forests provide an imposing backdrop for one of the nineteenth century's most infamous prisons.
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St. Augustine, Florida: St Photios National Shrine.St. Photois National Shrine in St. Augustine, Florida on 41 Saint George Street, is an institution of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and is dedicated to the first colony of Greek people who came to America in 1768.
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Book Review: to Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose FarmerIn this book, the first part of his Riverworld series, Farmer introduces what is one of the most ambitious concepts in Science fiction. All of mankind who live to adulthood find themselves resurrected, simultaneously, naked on the banks of an immense river.
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How to Start Having Lucid DreamsEveryone can learn how to start having lucid dreams. According to dream experts the likelihood of lucid dreaming increases dramatically when the dreamer holds tight to the intent to have them, and to remember them afterwards.
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The Haunting of Decatur HouseThe haunted house of one of America's most celebrated naval captains in the War of 1812, Stephen Decatur, located in Lafayette Square, Washington DC Decatur House is said to be haunted by the ghost of both Stephen and his wife, Susan.
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New Orleans Historic Voodoo MuseumNew Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum, 774 Dumaine St.
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Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, VirginiaBruton Parish was formed in1674 by merging earlier parishes in Williamsburg, Virginia, dating to 1633. It was named for an English Parish on the River Brue in Somerset, where it's founding fathers, Governor Sir William Berkeley, and Secretary of Virginia, Thomas Ludwell.
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Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, VirginiaBruton Parish was formed in1674 by merging earlier parishes in Williamsburg, Virginia, dating to 1633. It was named for an English Parish on the River Brue in Somerset, where it's founding fathers, Governor Sir William Berkeley, and Secretary of Virginia, Thomas Ludwell.
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Gorge Metro Park (Highbridge Trail), Akron Ohio.The Gorge was cut when glacial debris blocked the former route of the Cuyahoga River (near present-day downtown Akron) and caused the river to find a new course. Today, the rushing water flows over a shale riverbed, between ledges made of Sharon conglomerate sandstone.
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The African Safari Wildlife Park: Port Clinton, OhioThe African Safari Wildlife Park in Port Clinton, Ohio is an 100 acre wildlife preserve that is home to many species of animals roaming free in a natural habitat.
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Montezuma Castle National Monument, ArizonaThe Sinagua Indian families who lived within the massive walls of Montezuma Castle weren't hiding from anyone. Their "castle" may appear to have been an isolated fortress, but six hundred years ago it was only one of the dozens of dwellings in a flourishing community.
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Mystery in an Illinois Cave: The Treasure of King JubaIn 1982, an amateur treasure hunter, Russell E. Burrows, found a remote cave near his hometown of Olney in southern Illinois. He removed more than 7,000 artifacts from the cave and then sealed the entrance using dynamite, following the controversy over his discovery.
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The Monte Cristo Haunting of Junee, New South Wales, AustraliaDrive through the peaceful streets, of Junee, New South Wales, and you will be stopped in your tracks by the sight of an imposing mansion house squatting high on a hill and casting its gloomy shadow down on the town and its residents.
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Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. is it Really Haunted?In the early 1960's Walt Disney began developing plans for a mansion using secrets of the magic trade to create illusions of ghosts and spirits.
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A Little Lesson in Japanese Ghost LoreJapan like any other country is steeped in ghostly lore. Here are a few more common Japanese spirits for you to read about and be eerily amazed.
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Chiang-Shih: the Chinese VampireIn Chinese folklore Chiang-Shih, or "hopping ghost", is a combination of spirit monster and unburied corpse, which vaguely resembles a Western Vampire; it comes to life and wreaks death and misfortune.
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Female Sleuths in FictionIn her tweeds and sensible shoes, Miss Jane Marple of the quaint village of St. Mary Mead initially seems to be like any other elderly British Spinster-the type of sweet old lady who lives for cucumber sandwiches at tea time and natters on about her rose garden.
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Extraterrestrial Visits to Earth: is it True that Aliens Have Been Visiting This Planet for Centuries?There have been recorded interactions with aliens on earth since ancient times. Ancient texts from Egypt, India, China and elsewhere make reference to flying gods in fiery chariots or flying boats. Ancient Buddhist texts refer to flying spheres.
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Book Review: the Legend of Starcrash by Dolores Cannon.Dolores Cannon is a regressionist, which is a hypnotist that specializes in past life therapy, reincarnation and the research and investigation of this phenomenon.
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Stephen King's the ShiningKing's use of "redrum" as a totemic portent to Danny by his alter ego Tony is clever and has become an often cited part of pop culture.
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Book Reviws: the Fingersmith by Sarah WatersThis captivating, beautifully crafted book has earned Sarah Waters the title of "the modern Charles Dickens" or Wilkie Collins.
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The Haunting of Arundel CastleThis magnificent castle in the heart of West Sussex has been the home of the Dukes of Norfolk since 1580
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The Haunted House of Count Lemo in Puno, PeruThe city of Puno lies comfortably on the banks of Lake Titicaca in the ancient country of Peru. It is a beautiful place, full of bright, clean streets and friendly people.
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Book Review: the Four Agreements by Don Miguel RuizThe Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is a tough yet inspiring book.
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Identifying Visitors from the Spirit WorldGhosts appear in many different forms and have a variety of motives, attachments and preoccupations, but they fall into distinctive categories.
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The Purpose of Ley LinesIn 1921,a businessman named Alfred Watkins was struck by the apparent alignment of various ancient sites on his local map. He coined the phrase "ley lines" imagining them to be ancient trade route markers.
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Movies for Clown LoversClowns, some people love them, some people hate them. Some people even find it to be a guilty pleasure to watch clowns on the big screen. So sit back and watch a movie where triple somersaults abound and trapezes and clowns aren't all that they seem.
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Thailand Haunting: Nang Naak's ShrineThere is a particular site in Bangkok where the throngs of people and the thick sweet scent of incense assault your senses and give you the first indication that you are approaching a highly venerated site.
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Japan Hauntings: The Haunted Well of Himeji CastleIn Japanese culture, ghosts take on many different forms. Yuurei are ghosts whose deaths came about so suddenly that they did not have time to make their peace, either because they were murdered or committed suicide rashly.
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The Hungry Ghosts of ChinaDuring late summer, the Republic of China is a quiet and deserted place. A fission of fear shimmers in the air and an aura of caution envelops the entire country. Nobody dares to venture out after dark.
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Metamorphosis in Literature: Startling Transformations in Prose and VerseA compelling theme in literature is that of transformation, or metamorphosis. One of the most famous tales of metamorphosis is Franz Kafka's story by the same name, but there are many others.
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What is the Silliest Question in the World?A little rant about the "fun" of working in retail.
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The Crystal Skull of DoomThe crystal skulls are replicas of human skulls that have been carved out of quartz, a clear (when pure) crystal of silicon dioxide. There are hundreds of them in circulation; some of them very modern and others carved thousands of years ago.
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The Haunting of Peter House CollegeThe oldest college in Cambridge, England, dating back to the thirteenth century, which was the site of a much publicized haunting.
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Talisman: Lightening Rod of the GodsA talisman can be an object, drawing, or symbol believed to be endowed with a supernatural or magical power, which then transfers its powers upon its possessor. In occult lore, talismans also attract good luck, success, health, virility, love, power, and well.
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The Ghostly Drummer of CortachyGhostly drumming said to portend the death of a member of the Oglivy family, the earls of Airlie and owners of Cortachy Castle, Scotland.
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The Haunted Beaches of SingaporeThe people of Singapore's capital have many ghost stories to tell.
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Ancient Roman Ghost Hunter Lucretius (55 BCE - 99 CE)Lucretius ancient roman ghost hunter.
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Ankou Hunter of SoulsAnkou is part of the fairy lore of the Celtic countries. He is thought to be the personification of death, who comes to collect the souls of humans when they die.
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Macabre Tales to Chill You on a Dark, Stormy NightHere are some great book recommendations designed to keep you up on those dark and stormy nights. Some of them you may have heard of and some maybe not.
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Grimoire: the Witch BookBooks of magical knowledge written between the late-medieval period and the eighteenth century, Grimoires contain astrological correspondences, lists of angels, instructions on casting charms and spells, as well as information on how to mix medicines and make talismans.
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The Four Agreements by Don Miguel RuizBased on ancient Toltec Wisdom, The Four Agreements offers a code of conduct that will transform your life into a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
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Tha Maya: Obsessive Astronomers or Prophets of the FutureAlthough Maya builders possessed many practical skills, the most distinctive Maya achievements were in abstract mathematics and astronomy.
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Poltergeists?Bothered by strange sounds, objects unexpectedly flying around the house, or inexplicable knocking. Well it may not be that friendly little ghost you think it is.
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Watery GravesFive places where drowned spirits are still seen.
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The Haunting of Rose Hall in Montego Bay, JamaicaThis article is about the wealthy, murdering, and now ghostly mistress of Rose Hall Plantation, in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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The Development of the CodpieceMen make horrific fashion blunders too, and the codpiece is definitely one of them.
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Milestones in the History of BreastsEver wonder about the real history of Breasts. Well wonder no more. Here is the real historical scoop on those two bodacious little dirty pillows.
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The Opium WarsA little informative snippet from Chinese history.
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Ca D'Zan: The Ringling Mansion and the Pride of Sarasota, FLThe King of the Circus, John Ringling and his wife, Mable built this Italian Renaissance style mansion between 1924-1926 overlooking the Sarasota Bay. Open to the public, it rapidly became the most visited tourist attraction in Florida.
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The Spear of DestinyAccording to John's account, blood and water flowed from the wound; according to legend, some of the fluids splashed onto the soldier's eyes, immediately repairing his failing vision.