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Bezig met laden... The Vermont Ghost Guidedoor Joseph A. Citro, Stephen R. Bissette (Illustrator)
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"What's So Scary about Vermont?" In The Vermont Ghost Guide, Vermont's Ghostmaster Joseph A. Citro teams up with award-winning artist Stephen R. Bissette to answer that question definitively. Organized alphabetically by town, this remarkable pocket-sized collection of lore and line art points travelers toward dozens of mystifying sites to discover -- or perhaps avoid. Both a guidebook and a reference tool, The Vermont Ghost Guide contains over 100 entries with 39 illustrations of haunted houses, ghostly spots, and mysterious events from every Vermont county. Many of the stories have never been published before.Vermont's mysterious mountains, hills, and hollows are rich with timeless tales of ghosts, phantoms, and horrible haunts, and Joe Citro has been covering that"dead-beat" for over a decade. In The Vermont Ghost Guide you'll encounter: - a poltergeist raining stones on a hapless North Pownal farm;- Northfield's Phantom Gravedigger;- a Ryegate ghostly door that appears and vanishes;- Charles Dickens's ghost guiding a writer's hand in Brattleboro;- a doppelganger's prediction of death in Cavendish;- the Midnight Cow, haunting the highways;- a miner's specter, embedded in stone;- the mysterious Eddy Brothers who marked Vermont as "The Spirit Capital of the Universe";- and many, many more.But Be Warned! Citro's Vermont is not the idyllic New England wonderland of tourist bureaus and scenic postcards. These are shadowy haunts and whispered horrors, the ghosts, ghouls, gores, and mysteries of the Green Mountain State, rendered in eerie black-and-white by artist Steve Bissette. Perfect for visitors and residents, children and anyone else with an interest in or curiosity about Vermont history, legend, and lore, The Vermont Ghost Guide is sure to have a long shelf life and be of continuing interest for years to come. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)133.109743Philosophy and Psychology Parapsychology And Occultism Specific Topics Apparition - Ghosts North America Northeastern U.S. VermontLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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* Organized alphabetically by Town
* Map at the back with locations of the stories
* Some light humour
* Some of tales read nicely like a good ghost story
* Good introduction for further investigation into some of Vermont's ghostly tales
The Not so Good Stuff
* Way too little information or details about most of the stories. Each only a paragraph long
* Jumped from story to story, with no break, so you had to keep looking up at the top of the page to see what town the story was set in
Favorite Quotes/Passages
* Sam Connor's Other Self
* The Spanish Shawl
* Library Prankster
* Ghostly Companion
What I Learned
* Never to read ghost stories while alone in the house, my imagination went into overdrive -- and it was daylight (Yes I am a dork)
* That I need a back-story about haunting's -- otherwise I'm not really interested
Who should/shouldn't read
* Those who are interested in Vermont's ghostly happenings
2.5 Dewey's
I purchased this for my amusement and didn't have to review it ( )