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Author : Chris Woodyard
Publisher : Kestrel Publications (OH)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780988192522
Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.
Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780750938730
Professor Curl has fashioned an absorbing, lucid and entertaining book describing the Victorian response to the only certainty in life--death. It includes disposal of the dead, landscaped cemeteries funerals and more.
Author : Adam Bunch
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 145973808X
Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk... With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city’s greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world’s most notorious anarchist. Toronto has witnessed countless lives lived and lost as it grew from a muddy little frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.
Author : E. A. Wallis Budge
Publisher : Wellfleet Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1577151216
A collection of ancient Egyptian magic spells and road maps to assist individuals through the underworld and into the afterlife.
Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1250024889
"Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759516030
Can FBI Special Agent Pendergast stop a cursed Egyptian tomb from terrorizing New York City -- or will he stay trapped in a maximum security prison, punished for a murder he didn't commit? An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala... Memento Mori
Author : Mark Davis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445635062
A fascinating history of Undercliffe Victorian Cemetery - 'works of art', created as much for the living as they were for the dead.
Author : Roxie J. Zwicker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2009-02-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1614237379
A historical tour of the Bay State’s oldest burial grounds—and the sometimes-spooky stories behind them. Massachusetts's historic graveyards are the final resting places for tales of the strange and supernatural. From Newburyport to Truro, these graveyards often frighten the living, but the dead who rest within them have stories to share with the world they left behind. While Giles Corey is said to haunt the Howard Street Cemetery in Salem, cursing those involved in the infamous witch trials, visitors to the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain enjoy an arboretum and a burial ground with Victorian-era memorials. One of the oldest cemeteries in Massachusetts, Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, has been the final resting place for residents for nearly 375 years. Author Roxie Zwicker tours the Bay State's oldest burial grounds, exploring the stones, stories and supernatural lore of these hallowed places. Includes photos
Author : Alyxandra Harvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 080273751X
Cousins Gretchen, Emma, and Penelope are all dealing with what it means to be a Lovegrove. For Gretchen, it means she often feels like her head is going to explode. As a Whisperer, Gretchen constantly hears the whispers of other witches' spells. And while this does help her to know when one of her own spells is going wrong, the incessant buzzing and pain the whispers cause makes it difficult to use her gift. But when something evil begins to menace Mayfair, Gretchen must find a way to master her power. Along with her cousins, a madcap named Moira, and the icy yet irresistible Tobias Lawless, Gretchen faces deadly threats and unimaginable loss in the hopes of preventing the terrible Greymalkin Sisters from rising again. The second book in The Lovegrove Legacy trilogy, Whisper the Dead will leave readers spellbound.
Author : Michelle Belanger
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738713236
Introduces a spiritual path of personal transformation and rebirth. This book draws on the wisdom of shamans, Tibetan Buddhists, and ancient Egyptians, Michelle Belanger and illuminates death as a beautiful gateway to change and regeneration.--Worldcat.