A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters
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Product Description
Millions of Americans believe in the paranormal—and even skeptics have heard a bump in the night and suspected it might be something supernatural. Everyone loves a good ghost story. Peter Aykroyd spent his childhood watching his family’s parlor séances through the crack of a basement door. Aykroyd introduces the reader to notable mediums while telling the story of the development of spiritualism, interweaving a personal history marked by a fascination with ghosts and spirits with the larger narrative about the role the paranormal has played in our culture. Here, for the first time, Aykroyd tells the strange and delightful story that inspired his son, Dan, to make the mega-hit, Ghostbusters. Part history, part family legend, A History of Ghostsstarts in 1848 in upstate New York, where the spiritualist craze first began. Such legendary figures as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini appear and vanish. Successful TV shows such as Mediumand Ghost Huntersare proof that our national obsession with ghosts is here to stay.
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Product Info
- Author
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Creator
- Dan Aykroyd
- Dewey Decimal Number
- 133.109
- EAN
- 9781605298757
- ISBN
- 1605298751
- Label
- Rodale Books
- Manufacturer
- Rodale Books
- Number Of Items
- 1
- Number Of Pages
- 264
- Product Group
- Book
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_BOOK
- Publication Date
- 2009-09-29
- Publisher
- Rodale Books
- Release Date
- 2009-09-29
- Studio
- Rodale Books
- Title
- A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters
- ASIN
- 1605298751
- Sales Rank
- 337348
- Provider
- Amazon
- As of
- May 20, 2012, 4:23 pm
