L. B. TaylorBesprekingen
Auteur van The Ghosts of Williamsburg...And Nearby Environs
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Rescue!: True Stories of Heroism door L. B. Taylor, Jr.
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LuLibro | Jan 22, 2024 | Gemarkeerd
Mandy_Helfer | 3 andere besprekingen | Dec 30, 2022 | Gemarkeerd
DanHelfer | 3 andere besprekingen | Dec 29, 2022 | Gemarkeerd
OakGrove-KFA | Mar 28, 2020 | Ghosts stories and haunted houses in the Richmond area. Entertaining book and has pictures that go along with the corresponding houses/locations for nearly all of the locations mentioned
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ChrisWeir | 1 andere bespreking | Apr 28, 2019 | 1st of Taylor's books about ghosts in and around Williamsburg. This is much better than the second book he does give history on each location and generally there's a picture. But most have some "eyewitness" account on what happened there. Also what was odd about this one to me was that soe of the eyewitness accounts date back to the early 1800s. A couple of the stories of note: a portrait that expresses it's dislike when moved from it's place in the house by jumping off the wall or just a general ruckus. Another a place called Dancing Point where nothing will grow and hasn't for centuries.. It is said that the land owner and the devil had a dancing contest there with the devil being the loser.
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ChrisWeir | 3 andere besprekingen | Sep 23, 2017 | Ghost stories that are in or near Williamsburg. This is the authors second book on this local. He has expanded some areas. At times it seems more like a travelogue than a ghost story book. Has a number of stories that are related to civil war battlegrounds.
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ChrisWeir | Jan 6, 2015 | This is a thick book of purportedly true ghost stories from throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Most fall into the category of folklore. In addition to some chills, this book contains a lot of Virginia history, and much architectural information about historic properties in Virginia. There are frequent quotations from descriptions in the Virginia Landmarks Register. There are also numerous photos (of many of the properties) and drawings (of purported spooky events). Despite a rather dry writing style and occasional odd wordings/syntax, this is more well done than many of the regional "true ghost story" books one encounters, especially for readers interested in history and architecture as well as eerie stories.
There is at least one historical inaccuracy in this book -- a product of when it was written½
There is at least one historical inaccuracy in this book -- a product of when it was written½
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tymfos | Nov 30, 2012 | An interesting collection of local ghost stories from environs of Williamsburg, VA. Sometimes the author's writing style is more dryly journalistic than perhaps it should be for a book of ghost stories, but one must admire Mr. Taylor's collections of ghost stories as good local history and folklore.
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athaena | 3 andere besprekingen | Aug 20, 2009 | Reprints of Richmond-related ghost stories from Mr. Taylor's other books.
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wesh | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 20, 2007 | Onze site gebruikt cookies om diensten te leveren, prestaties te verbeteren, voor analyse en (indien je niet ingelogd bent) voor advertenties. Door LibraryThing te gebruiken erken je dat je onze Servicevoorwaarden en Privacybeleid gelezen en begrepen hebt. Je gebruik van de site en diensten is onderhevig aan dit beleid en deze voorwaarden.