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Informationen zum Autor Jeannie Banks Thomas is a professor at Utah State University, where she is head of the Department of English. Her many publications included Featherless Chickens, Laughing Women, and Serious Stories , which received the Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, and Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore (2007), coauthored with Diane Goldstein and Sylvia Grider, which won the Brian McConnell Book Award in legend studies. Klappentext Explores zombies! vampires! witches! demented nuns! mediums! and ghosts in their natural (and unnatural) habitats while making sense of the current ubiquity of the supernatural on the internet! in movies! tourism! and in places like New Orleans. This unique study of how we locate the supernatural sheds light on why certain sites and their stories captivate us. Zusammenfassung Explores zombies! vampires! witches! demented nuns! mediums! and ghosts in their natural (and unnatural) habitats while making sense of the current ubiquity of the supernatural on the internet! in movies! tourism! and in places like New Orleans. This unique study of how we locate the supernatural sheds light on why certain sites and their stories captivate us.
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Jeannie Banks Thomas is a professor at Utah State University, USA where she is head of the Department of English. Her many publications include
Featherless Chickens, Laughing Women, and Serious Stories, which received the Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, and
Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore (2007), coauthored with Diane Goldstein and Sylvia Grider, which won the Brian McConnell Book Award in legend studies.
