Spooky cemeteries
Book - 2008
Discusses the supposed hauntings of various cemeteries, including the Gettysburg National Military Park and Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt.
- Series
- Scary places
- Subjects
- Published
-
New York :
Bearport Pub
c2008.
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 32 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 26 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781597165624
159716562X - Main Author
- Spooky cemeteries
- The empire of the dead
- The last American vampire
- The voodoo queen of New Orleans
- The ghosts of Gettysburg
- A mummy's curse
- A spine-chilling spirit
- Resurrection Mary
- The Hollywood vampire
- The Indian burial ground
- Poe's phantom visitor
- The great vampire hunt.
Readers will get a lesson in history in this series of titles that looks at what happened in various historical places and how these happenings are tied to tales of ghosts, poltergeists, and other unexplainable phenomena.
Review by Publisher Summary 2Do the dead tell tales? Readers will find out in this scary trip through 11 of the world's spookiest graveyards. Among the stops: Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Rhode Island. That's where a little girl named Mercy Brown is buried. In the late 1800s, her family was hit by tuberculosis. First, her mother and sister died. Then Mercy herself became sick and died. In desperation to save his tubercular son, her father—who had become convinced that Mercy was a vampire rising from the grave each night to suck the life blood from her sibling—dug up her body, cut out her heart and burned it, and served the ashes to her brother. Such compelling historical nonfiction will keep readers eagerly turning the pages in this macabre exploration of the world of the dead.