Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

Book Review

Have you heard of these cool classics with a zombie twist? First we had had Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (which is a New York Times Best Seller) and now Steve Hockensmith has written the prequel to Jane Austen’s “zombinated” classic novel.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls is the third Quirk Classic. This book is not based on an original Austen work, but it does stay true to the characters she created and gives Hockensmith an opportunity to fully demonstrate his creative genius.

Description of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls from the Publisher:

With more than one million copies in print, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was the surprise publishing phenomenon of 2009. A best seller on three continents, PPZ has been translated into 21 languages and optioned to become a major motion picture.

In this terrifying and hilarious prequel, we witness the genesis of the zombie plague in early-nineteenth-century …

Old Louisville Ghosts

When I was 16 and still in high school and certainly not thinking of ghosts or anything paranormal, I found myself living in a very old house with my father, stepmother and baby brother, he was just a newborn. I remember when I first moved in I thought it would be cool cause the house was over a hundred years old, made of brick, seven bedrooms, a library, a master and a servants stairwell and a huge cellar. The house was beautiful, one of the most beautiful homes I have ever seen .

Well it all started about a week after I had settled in. Like I said I was going to school and not looking for the house to be haunted at all I was a true skeptic anyway. I was asleep one night and was awakened to my bed being shaken very hard at the foot of my bed and I jumped up and thought it was my …

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Here is a book I want to tell you about because it is really very different. Imagine mixing sea monsters and old classics! This book even has a video preview (details later).

Anyway, this is from the author:

Jane is my Co-Pilot: The Fine Art of Making Sense and Sensibility Totally Ridiculous
By Ben H. Winters

Since writing Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, I’ve gotten a ton of feedback about how nice it is that I’ve made Jane Austen appealing to certain readers — meaning readers who previously suffered a persistent allergy to The Classics. I am complimented for taking the prim and decorous Jane Austen and making her, A) really violent, and B) really funny.

The first compliment I will gladly accept. Over the decades since Sense and Sensibility first appeared, it has been noted by scholars and casual readers alike that the book is sorely lacking in shipwrecks, shark attacks, and vividly described decapitations. I believe it …

Field Guide to Ghosts

Book Review

The Weiser Field Guide to Ghosts

Apparitions, Spirits, Spectral Lights, and Other Hauntings of History and Legend

I just finished reading a book called The Weiser Field Guide to Ghosts by Raymond Buckland. The book is set up like a dictionary with main categories of different types of “Apparitions, Spirits, Spectral Lights, and Other Hauntings of History and Legend”.

Even though it is essentially a reference guide it still makes for some good “sit back” reading. This book is full of interesting facts and stories about everything from ancestral ghosts to animal ghosts, battlefield ghosts to Biblical ghosts, monsters to spectral lights and much more about the strange world around us. The index is great so you can look up info whenever you need it.

Fringe Dweller on the Nightshift

Book Review

I am reading a very interesting book about a woman, who through lucid dreaming, makes contact with the spirits of the dead who need help and guidance to go on to the ‘other side’. I have done extensive research with lucid dreams and found the book to be fascinating enough because the author talks about them but when I realized that she actually made contact with “ghosts” and helped to guide them I was hooked.

Imagine being able to help those who cannot accept their fate or find their way on to the next “level”!

“Monica’s life purpose on earth is to assist souls to move to the other side during a traumatic death. Her ability to reach into the world of spirit and work with the souls there puts her in a league with Stuart Wilde, Sylvia Browne, John Edward, and Rosemary Altea.” ~ Carolyn Long, Psychotherapist

Here is the official press release:

By day, Monica Holy’s …

The Little Girl in the Window: A True Ghost Story

Book Review

I have spent 20 years in the intensely haunted old church building that is now occupied by the Rialto, California Historical Society. I have a Ph.D. in soil science from the University of California at Riverside, did scientific research for years, always ridiculed any suggestions of the supernatural, and I was a life-long atheist until the foundations of my belief system were blasted to pieces by my experiences with ghosts.

I never could have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would ever believe in something that seemed so ridiculous to me as ghosts. The stories began with the discovery of a very appealing little girl ghost whose ashes had been kept in the church. She was sent on her way after three very emotional séances, but other ghosts remain to haunt the church. Two different pairs of Rialto policemen have told me of encountering the ghost of a woman in a Victorian dress on two different occasions …

Stingy Jack By R. Scott Taylor

Professional thief, Adam Beesler has seven days to pull off a multi-million dollar jewel heist. Before he can accomplish his goal, he’ll meet an attractive art dealer, deal with a pushy mentor/partner, speak with a dead Irish rogue and face the Devil himself.

“Stingy Jack” is two stories in one: Adam’s tale of modern day Boston is tinged with the ghostly Jack O’Keeffe’s tales of 17th century Ireland.

Jack tells the younger thief how he came to be one of the emerald isle’s best thieves before being brought down in his 40′s. He will also reveal to Adam what became of him after death.

All the while, the clock ticks down the seconds to the final score.

Learn more about Stingy Jack at:

www.stingyjack.net