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Informationen zum Autor June Michele Pulliam teaches courses on horror fiction and film, young adult fiction, and women's and gender studies at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Anthony J. Fonseca , PhD, is library director and college archivist at Elms College in Massachusetts, where he also teaches courses in rock music and music literature as an adjunct. Klappentext With entries that range from specific works to authors, folklore, and popular culture (including music, film, television, urban legend, and gaming), this book provides a single-volume resource on all things ghostly in the United States and in other countries. The concept of ghosts has been an ongoing and universal element in human culture as far back as recorded history can document. In more modern popular culture and entertainment, ghosts are a popular mainstay-from A Christmas Carol and Casper the Friendly Ghost to The Amityville Horror , Ghostbusters , Poltergeist , The Sixth Sense , and Ghost Whisperer . This book comprehensively examines ghost and spirit phenomena in all its incarnations to provide readers with a holistic perspective on the subject. It presents insightful information about the contribution of a specific work or author to establish or further the evolution of ghost lore, rather than concentrating solely on the film, literature, music, or folklore itself.The book focuses on ghosts in western culture but also provides information about spirit phenomena and lore in international settings, as many of the trends in popular culture dealing with ghosts and spirits are informed by authors and filmmakers from Germany, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom. The writers and editors are experts and scholars in the field and enthusiastic fans of ghost lore, ghost films, ghost hunting, and urban legends, resulting in entries that are informative and engaging-and make this the most complete and current resource on ghost and spirit lore available. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction A-Z Entries American Horror Story: Murder House Amish Haunting Amityville Horror, The Angels of Mons Animal Ghosts Annabelle Apparition Narrative Arabian Nights, The Ash Wednesday Audrey Rose Awakening, The Bag of Bones Battlefield Ghosts Beckoning Fair One, The Beetlejuice Belief Studies Bell Witch Beloved Bhoot Bither, Doris "Black Cat, The" Blackwood, Algernon Blair Witch Project, The Blithe Spirit Bloody Mary Book of the Spirits, The Borley Rectory Campbell, Ramsey Canal, The Candyman Canterville Ghost, The Casper "Casting the Runes" Castle of Otranto, The Certain Slant of Light, A Changeling, The Children's Books Child's Play Series Chinese Ghost Story, A Christmas Carol, A Comedy Conan Doyle, Arthur Conjuring, The Crawford, F. Marion Crossing Over with John Edward Dark Water Dead Files, The Dead Silence Detective Fiction Día de los Muertos Dolls Earthbound Spirits Ectoplasm Enfield Poltergeist Entity, The Espiritismo Eye, The Feng Shui Field of Dreams Flying Dutchman Fog, The Folklore 1408 Fox Sisters Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins Frighteners, The Gender Ghost Ghost Adventures Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Ghost Bikes Ghost Festival Ghost Hunters Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, The "Ghost Riders in the Sky" Ghost Story Ghost Story for Christmas, A "Ghost Town" Ghost W...
