Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend

Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend

Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend

Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend

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Overview

With entries that range from specific works to authors, folklore, and popular culture (including music, film, television, urban legend, and gaming), this book provides a single-volume resource on all things ghostly in the United States and in other countries.

• Provides accessible, interesting, and fun-to-read information authored by expert researchers and coedited by scholars who are experts on the topic of ghosts across human culture

• Presents analytical discussions of the figure of the ghost in each work that will be beneficial to students in film studies, English, or other classes tasked with writing an essay on the horror genre or ghost films and books

• Explores how the idea of the ghost implies belief in there being more to human existence than the physical body and is intrinsically connected to the concept of the afterlife—and how these concepts often coexisted uneasily with beliefs regarding afterlife in religious theologies


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440834912
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date: 09/26/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 403
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

June Michele Pulliam, PhD, is professor of English and gender studies at Louisiana State University.

Anthony J. Fonseca, PhD, is library director at Elms College, Chicopee, MA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
A–Z Entries
American Horror Story: Murder House
Amish Haunting
Amityville Horror, The
Angels of Mons
Animal Ghosts
Annabelle
Apparition Narrative
Arabian Nights, The
Ash Wednesday
Audrey Rose
Awakening, The
Bag of Bones
Battlefield Ghosts
Beckoning Fair One, The
Beetlejuice
Belief Studies
Bell Witch
Beloved
Bhoot
Bither, Doris
"Black Cat, The"
Blackwood, Algernon
Blair Witch Project, The
Blithe Spirit
Bloody Mary
Book of the Spirits, The
Borley Rectory
Campbell, Ramsey
Canal, The
Candyman
Canterville Ghost, The
Casper
"Casting the Runes"
Castle of Otranto, The
Certain Slant of Light, A
Changeling, The
Children's Books
Child's Play Series
Chinese Ghost Story, A
Christmas Carol, A
Comedy
Conan Doyle, Arthur
Conjuring, The
Crawford, F. Marion
Crossing Over with John Edward
Dark Water
Dead Files, The
Dead Silence
Detective Fiction
Día de los Muertos
Dolls
Earthbound Spirits
Ectoplasm
Enfield Poltergeist
Entity, The
Espiritismo
Eye, The
Feng Shui
Field of Dreams
Flying Dutchman
Fog, The
Folklore
1408
Fox Sisters
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
Frighteners, The
Gender
Ghost
Ghost Adventures
Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The
Ghost Bikes
Ghost Festival
Ghost Hunters
Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, The
"Ghost Riders in the Sky"
Ghost Story
Ghost Story for Christmas, A
"Ghost Town"
Ghost Whisperer
Ghostbusters
Ghosts Know
Ghostwatch
Goosebumps Series
Gothic, The
Grave Encounters
Greco-Roman Ghosts
Greenbrier Ghost
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen
Haint
Halloween
Haunted and the Haunters, The
Haunted Houses
Haunting of Hill House, The
Headless Horseman
Heart-Shaped Box
Hell House
Hill, Joe
Hodgson, William Hope
Hoffmann, E. T. A.
Hook, The
"Hotel California"
Houdini, Harry
House on Haunted Hill, The
House on Nazareth Hill, The
Hungry Ghosts
Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai
Innocents, The
Insidious Series
Inspector Calls, An
Internet Ghosts
Irving, Washington
Jackson, Shirley
James, Henry
James, M. R.
"James Gang"
Janghwa, Hongryeon
Ju-On: The Grudge
Kairo
King, Stephen
Kwaidan
LaLaurie Mansion
Le Fanu, J. S.
"Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The"
Leiber, Fritz
Llorona, La
Long Island Medium
Lost Boy Lost Girl
Lovely Bones, The
Medieval Ghosts
Medium
Mediums
Mirrors
Molesworth, Mary Louisa
Mostellaria
Mumler, William H.
Museums and Libraries
Music, Jazz and Blues
Music, Popular
Music, Traditional and Folk
Myrtles Plantation
Mysteries of Udolpho, The
Native American Ghosts in Films
Necromancy
Neo-Victorian Ghost Stories
Nightmare on Elm Street, A
9/11 Ghost Fiction
Odyssey, The
Old English Baron, The
Onions, Oliver
Orfanato, El
Others, The
Ouija Board
Paranormal Societies
Paranormal Television
Parapsychology
Pliny the Younger
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poltergeist
Poltergeists
Pornography
Possession
Price, Harry
Purgatory
Randi, James
Renaissance/Romantic Period
Revenant
Revenge
Riddell, Charlotte
Ring Franchises
"Sandmann, Der"
"Schalken the Painter"
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Séance
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Séances
Shadow People
Shining, The
"Signalman, The"
Six Feet Under
Sixth Sense, The (Film)
Sixth Sense, The (Television Series)
Slender Man
Society for Psychical Research
Soul, The
Space Ghost
Spectre, The
Spectrophilia
Spirit Photography
"Spirit Rappings"
Spiritualism
Stead, W. T.
Stir of Echoes, A
Straub, Peter
Supernatural
Suzuki, Koji
Theaters
13 Ghosts
Topper
"True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal, The"
Turban of the Screw, The
20th Century Ghosts
Two Thousand Maniacs!
Ugetsu
Uncanny, The
Unfriended
Uninvited, The
Vanishing Hitchhiker
Victorian Era
Video Games
"Warning to the Curious, A"
Warren, Ed and Lorraine
Wharton, Edith
What Lies Beneath
White Noise
Witch of Endor
Woman in Black, The (Novel and Play)
Woman Warrior, The
Women Authors
Wuthering Heights
Young Adult Fiction
Yurei
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index

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