Tag: Ghost

True Ghost Stories


Free Download Harry Ludlam, "True Ghost Stories"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0572025432 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.9 mb
There is absolutely nothing to compare with the spine-chilling sensation of seeing a ghost. The shock and, all too often, the distress are better read about than experienced. Britain’s No.1 collector of ghost stories presents a new anthology of persistent hauntings. Harry Ludlam, master story-teller, recounts his tales from all quarters of the ghost world. Read about Princess Diana trying to exorcise a ghost which was troubling her father, or about Lord Ree-s Mogg and the banshee haunting his family, or about the ghost of Elvis Presley that was chased by a clergyman from a council flat in Britain. Improbable, yes. But who knows?

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Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy


Free Download Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy "
English | ISBN: 0814348637 | 2023 | 236 pages | EPUB | 504 KB
Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parental authority, heteronormativity, nationalism, and anthropocentrism. Author Cathy Yue Wang examines the processes by which modern authors and filmmakers reshape these traditional tales to develop new narratives that interrogate the ingrained patriarchal paradigm. Through a rigorous analysis, Wang delineates changes in both content and narrative that allow contemporary interpretations to reimagine the gender politics and contexts of the tales retold. With a broad transmedia approach and a nuanced understanding of intertextuality, this work contributes to the ongoing negotiation in academic and popular discourse between past and present, traditional and contemporary, and text and reality in a globalized and postmodern world.

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Skidoo A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West


Free Download Simon Pare, "Skidoo: A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1907973958 | EPUB | pages: 84 | 0.7 mb
Decades after westward expansion swept over it, settled it, and domesticated it, the Wild West remains a potent source of American myth and mystery. But the actual history, and the traces of it that remain, are at least as interesting as the fiction, and in Skidoo, writer and novelist Alex Capus takes us on a fascinating tour of the skeleton of the American West―the ghost towns and collapsing mines that lie far from interstates and airports, lost in history.

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Ghost Station


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English | April 9, 2024 | ISBN: 1250884926 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 2.4 MB
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence.

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Ghost Ships


Free Download Ghost Ships: Sailing Through Eternity: Unveiling the Mysteries of Ghost Ships
by Adrian Cave

English | March 31, 2024 | ASIN: B0CW1C13SV | 109 pages | PDF | 44 Mb

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Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost Poems


Free Download Sage Ravenwood, "Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost: Poems"
English | ISBN: 1954622228 | 2023 | 100 pages | EPUB, PDF | 480 KB + 341 KB
Sage Ravenwood is a deaf Indigenous poet whose work deals with the lingering, resurgent trauma of familial violence and the machinations of colonialism. Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost is a poet’s response to her place in the wider world, exploring grief, anger, tenderness, and defiance. Ravenwood sheds light on Indigenous issues such as MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) and the Native American boarding schools, but she also makes space to center the natural world and her reverence of it. The poems in this collection are unafraid to name rage and pain as driving emotions yet strive for understanding and a way forward to healing.

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The Autumn Ghost How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care [Audiobook]


Free Download Hannah Wunsch, Emily Durante (Narrator), "The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care"
English | ASIN: B0CRMG1H46 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:10:00 | 288 MB
Americans knew polio as the "summer plague." In countries further North, however, the virus arrived later in the year. It was described by one writer as "the autumn ghost."
Intensive care units and mechanical ventilation are the crucial foundation of modern medical care: without them, the appalling death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic would be even higher. In The Autumn Ghost, Dr. Hannah Wunsch traces the origins of these two innovations back to a polio epidemic in the autumn of 1952. Drawing together testimony from doctors, nurses, medical students, and patients, Wunsch relates a gripping tale of an epidemic that changed the world.
Wunsch tells the true story of how insiders and iconoclasts came together in one overwhelmed hospital in Copenhagen to save the lives of many polio patients dying of respiratory failure. Their radical advances in care marked a turning point in the treatment of patients around the world-from the rise of life support and the creation of intensive care units to the evolution of rehabilitation medicine.

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Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago Tales of the Lost Isles


Free Download Joseph A. McCullough, "Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago: Tales of the Lost Isles"
English | 2017 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1472824687 | EPUB | 4,1 mb
The Ghost Archipelago has returned. A vast island chain, covered in the ruins of ancient and otherworldly civilizations, the Archipelago appears every few centuries, far out in the southern ocean. At such times, pirates, adventurers, wizards, and legendary heroes all descend upon the islands in the hopes of finding lost treasures and powerful artefacts. A few, drawn by the blood of their ancestors, search for the fabled Crystal Pool, whose waters grant abilities far beyond those of normal men. It is only the bravest, however, who venture into the islands, for they are filled with numerous deadly threats. Cannibal tribes, sorcerous snake-men, and poisonous water-beasts all inhabit the island ruins, guarding their treasure hordes and setting traps for the unwary.

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