The Haunting and History of the Christie House
Title | The Haunting and History of the Christie House PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Lee |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-09-28 |
Genre | Ghosts |
ISBN | 9781517469740 |
Adrian Lee and his team from The International Paranormal Society relate their encounters with paranormal phenomena in the Christie House, in Long Prairie, Minnesota. He tells not only the history of the house itself and the family that lived there, but the ghostly history they found while investigating the 1901 home.
A House of Ghosts
Title | A House of Ghosts PDF eBook |
Author | W. C. Ryan |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1948924722 |
Finalist for the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year, a Classic Cozy Big-House Mystery Haunted by the Specters of World War One—For Readers of Agatha Christie and Simone St. James Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives. At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, armaments manufacturer Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons, both of whom died at the front. Among the guests, two have been secretly dispatched from the intelligence service: Kate Cartwright, a friend of the family who lost her beloved brother at the Somme and who, in the realm of the spiritual, has her own special gift; and the mysterious Captain Donovan, recently returned from Europe. Top secret plans for weapons developed by Lord Highmount’s company have turned up in Berlin, and there is reason to believe enemy spies will be in attendance. As the guests arrive, it becomes clear that each has something they would rather keep hidden. Then, when a storm descends, they find themselves trapped on the island. Soon one of their number will die. For Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than one . . . . An unrelenting, gripping mystery, packed with twists and turns and a kindling of romance, A House of Ghosts is the perfect cold-weather read.
Mirrorland
Title | Mirrorland PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Johnstone |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2023-01-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1668013606 |
“Unnerving.” —People “Unsettling...unlocks its mysteries slowly.” —The New York Times Book Review “A dark, twisty, and richly atmospheric exploration of the power of imagination” —Ruth Ware, author of The Woman in Cabin 10 “Beautifully written and told with a watchmaker’s precision” (Stephen King), Mirrorland is a thrilling psychological suspense novel about twin sisters, the man they both love, the house that has always haunted them, and the childhood stories they can’t leave behind. Cat lives in Los Angeles, far from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where she and her estranged twin sister, El, grew up. As kids, they invented Mirrorland, a dark, imaginary place under the pantry stairs, full of pirates, witches, and clowns. These days, Cat rarely thinks about their childhood home, or the fact that El now lives there with her husband, Ross. But when El mysteriously disappears after going out on her sailboat, Cat is forced to return to 36 Westeryk Road, which hasn’t changed in twenty years. The grand old house is still full of shadowy corners, and at every turn Cat finds herself stumbling on long-held secrets and terrifying ghosts from the past. Because someone—El?—has left Cat clues: a treasure hunt that leads them back to Mirrorland, where the truth lies waiting... A brilliantly crafted story that “feels like the love child of Gillian Flynn and Stephen King” (Greer Hendricks, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Mirrorland is a propulsive, page-turning debut about love, betrayal, revenge—and the price of freedom.
The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
Title | The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Mandler |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 540 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300078695 |
Challenging the prevailing view of a modern English culture besotted with its history and aristocracy, Mandler portrays instead a continuously changing society where both intellectual and popular attitudes have only recently turned to admiration.
The Last Seance
Title | The Last Seance PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2019-09-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062959158 |
“Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.”—Tana French, New York Times Bestselling Author From the Queen of Suspense, an all-new collection of her spookiest and most sinister stories, including an Agatha Christie story never before published in the USA, The Wife of Kenite! For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Fantastic psychic visions, specters looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, a man who switches bodies with a cat—be sure to keep the light on whilst reading these tales. The Last Séance gathers twenty stories, some featuring Christie’s beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, in one haunting compendium that explores all things occult and paranormal, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans.
Building Britannia
Title | Building Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Parissien |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 649 |
Release | 2023-11-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1801108730 |
An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. Building Britannia is a chronicle of social, political and economic change seen through the prism of the country's built environment, but also a sequence of closely observed studies of a series of intrinsically remarkable structures: some of them beautiful or otherwise imposing; some of them more coldly functional; all of them with richly fascinating stories to tell. Steven Parissien tells both a national story, tracing how a growing sense of British nationhood was expressed through the country's architecture, and also examines how these structures were used by later generations to signpost, mythologise or remake British history. Rubbing shoulders with some 'expected' building choices – the Roman baths at Aquae Sulis, the early Gothic splendour of Lincoln Cathedral and the Tudor jewel that is Little Moreton Hall – are some striking inclusions that promise to open doors into what will be, for many readers, less familiar areas of social history: these include The Briton's Protection, a Regency pub close in Manchester city centre and the Edwardian Baroque Electric Cinema in Notting Hill, one of the country's oldest working cinemas. Thus as well as identifying the relevance of certain iconic structures to the unfolding of the national story, Building Britannia finds fascination and meaning in the everyday and the disregarded.
Haunted Toronto
Title | Haunted Toronto PDF eBook |
Author | John Robert Colombo |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 1996-09-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1459726529 |
Unearthing Toronto's spectral and paranormal secrets, Haunted Toronto takes readers to sixty-six ghostly sites, from haunted stairwells in Queen's Park to otherworldly presences on the Toronto Islands. Fans of the supernatural will love this richly-illustrated guide to walking and driving tours of the city's spooky side.