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The supernatural murders : classic true crime stories / edited by Jonathan Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- True crime history series.
- True crime history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Murder.
- Murder--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Murder--Great Britain--History--Case studies.
- Murder--United States--History--Case studies.
- Occultism--History.
- Occultism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sure to capture the imagination of devotees of true crime and the occult This anthology of thirteen true crime stories includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, who was found slashed and pierced to death in an area notorious for its associations with black magic; the murder of Eric Tombe, whose body was located because of a recurring dream in which his mother saw Eric down a well; the terrorizing of Hammersmith, London, in the early nineteenth century by the nocturnal appearance of a "ghost"; the Salem witchcraft trials; the murder of Rasputin, who was believed by some in Russia to be a miracle worker and by others to be a dangerous charlatan; a Scottish tale in which evidence given by the ghost of the victim was allowed at the murderer's trial; and the bizarre goings-on at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York, where Ronnie DeFeo Jr. murdered his entire family--the new occupants were subjected to all manner of sinister events, including the presence of poltergeists, or were they?
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Bumps in the Night""; ""A Slaying on Saint Valentine's Day""; ""The Widow of Hardscrabble""; ""Prophesies of Doom""; ""The Well and the Dream""; ""An Astrological Postscript""; ""Calling Madame Isherwood...""; ""A Surfeit of Spirits""; ""Amityville Revisited""; ""The Ghost of Sergeant Davies""; ""Devils in the Flesh""; ""The Hand of God or Somebody""; ""Defending the 'Witch-Burners'""; ""Postscript""; ""The Trial of Susanna Martin""; ""The Protracted Murder of Gregory Rasputin""; ""The Gutteridge Murder""
- ""Acknowledgements and Sources""
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Piatkus, 1992.
- "With a new preface by Albert Borowitz"--P. [4] of cover.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61277-939-5
- 1-61277-938-7
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