Spooky Encounters

Flying ghosts, hopping vampires, seductive spirits, tree demons, evil sorcerers, living skeletons, possessed limbs and giant predatory tongues!

"Weird Encounters" features more than 75 supernatural stories contributed by writers from across the country. This chilling anthology tells of Historic Haunts and Hostel Environments and conjures up a host of phantasms and destructive spirits.

Explores curious wonders from California to Maine, from Canada to Mexico, and includes a list of every haunted or spooky location in every state and province in North America

People love to share their personal encounters with ghosts and other spooky subjects. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of stories of ghost encounters on the Internet. This volume delves deep into some of the most famous stories of all time (and some lesser known tales) to get the scoop on what really happened. The interview format makes for a unique reading experience and allows those telling the stories to be heard in their own words.

About the book There exists in all of us a fascination for the supernatural. We find it as we sit tensely in a darkened theatre and let the images that flash by cause our hearts to race faster and faster, or as we listen to someone tell a ghost story. There s nothing quite life reading a good ghost story though, and The Rupa Book of Spooky Encounters in chockfull of these. A collection of ghostly stories sure to send shivers down your spine, it includes tales from renowned storytellers, including E. Heron and H. Heron s The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith, the protagonist of which is Flaxman low, the Sherlock Holmes of supernatural stories; Perceval Landon s Thurnley Abbey; and Kipling s The Phantom Rickshaw.

"A collection of chilling stories eerily believable and truly spooky very strongly recommended "-Midwest Book Review Most people think of ghosts as rare, elusive creatures that are more or less inaccessible to the average Joe. Sure, we read about them, watch TV shows about them and tell stories about them, but we'll probably never run into one-right? Don't be so sure. Even if you've never personally encountered a ghost, chances are you know someone who has. The Ghost Next Door takes a revealing look into the lives of average, everyday people from across the country who have had experiences in the realm of the unexplained. Whether you're a true believer in ghosts or a hard-nosed skeptic, you're sure to get a chill or two when you read about the woman who was visited by her grandfather on the night of his funeral! Or the man who was forced to move by a troublesome spirit only to find it had followed him! As you make your way through these and other genuinely spooky stories, you'll probably find that ghostly encounters are a lot more common than you had imagined. Could there be a "haunted house" in your town? Perhaps on your very street? Maybe even right next door?

"Describes several types of ghostly encounters and relates stories that involve each type"--Provided by publisher.

Our greatest fear is the fear of the unknown. We've all had that feeling at some point, that gnawing, gut-wrenching fear that comes from our desire to know, and at the same time, not to know. When it comes to a paranormal encounter, we try to rationalize that what is happening isn't real. How could it be? Ghosts, aliens, monsters-they aren't real ... right? It must be something rational. We try to explain things to make ourselves feel safe. We try to believe that the world is still normal. But sometimes ... it's not. In My Creepy Paranormal Story Scary Stories Inspired by Real Encounters with Ghosts, Creatures, and the Unknown we plunge deep into the terrifying world of the supernatural in a bone-chilling anthology of paranormal encounters from people who've experienced the unexplainable. These spooky selections are all based on alleged real encounters of first-hand experiences-stories so strange they will have you questioning the world you thought you knew. From ghosts, to extraterrestrials, to unknown creatures lurking in the dark, you'll be on the edge of your seat as you take an unfiltered trip through the horrifying realms of the paranormal and beyond. David Hann and H. J. Tidy share these stories in an entertaining way while still maintaining the realism that makes them truly bloodcurdling to read. Guaranteed, you'll finish this book with more questions than answers as we guide you through these scary stories. Written in an easy-to-follow, hauntingly gritty, and incredibly gripping style, laced with a deliciously dark feeling of unsettling possibility, each of the stories in this collection transport you to places of mystery and otherworldliness, where real encounters with the supernatural have been documented. The first-person narrative leaves you feeling as if you are inside the story, part of the terror, and wrapped in ghostly arms of diverse experiences of the paranormal. Satisfy your curiosity while shivers run down your spine with My Creepy Paranormal Story: Scary Stories Inspired by Real Encounters with Ghosts, Creatures, and the Unknown by clicking "add to cart" before it disappears.

In this groundbreaking work, author David Scott Diffrient explores largely understudied facets of cinematic horror, from the various odors permeating classic and contemporary films to the wetness, sliminess, and stickiness of these productions, which, he argues, practically scream out for a tactile mode of textural analysis as much as they call for more traditional forms of textual analysis. Dating back to Carol Clover’s and Linda Williams’s pioneering work on horror cinema, film scholars have long conceptualized this once-disreputable category of cultural production as a “body genre.” However, despite the growing recognition that horror serves important biological and social functions in our lives, scholars have only scratched the surface of this genre with regard to its affective, corporeal, and sensorial appeals. Diffrient anatomizes horror films in much the same way that a mad scientist might handle the body, separating and recombining constitutive parts into a new analytical whole. Further, he challenges the tendency of scholars to privilege human over nonhuman beings and calls into question ableist assumptions about the centrality to horror films of sight and sound to the near exclusion of other forms of sense experience. In addition to examining the role that animals—living or dead, real or fake—play in human-centered fictions, this volume asks what it means for audiences to consume motion pictures in which actors, stunt performers, and other creative personnel have put their own bodies and lives at risk for our amusement. Historically grounded and theoretically expansive, Body Genre: Anatomy of the Horror Film moves the study of cinematic horror into previously unchartered waters and breathes life into a subject that, not coincidentally, is intimately connected to breathing as our most cherished dividing line between life and death.