Halloween was originally never a one day festival. With the ancient Druids of Britain, the first of November was a night full of mystery, in which they annually celebrated the reconstruction of the world. Although this cult is now extinct, they did give us what eventually came to be called "All Saints Day," "All Souls Day," and preceding these..."All Hallow Eve" (or if you will: All Hallow Even). A three day festival of the dead.
This books celebrates the strange and the eerie from an historical and entertaining perspective, and it does so in a whopping 50 chapters.
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Publication Date: September 16, 2017
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Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Historical Look at Halloween by Lewis Spence
Chapter 2: The Mystery of the Red Wolf of Maine, By Allen French 1901
Chapter 3: The History of Hauntings by Andrew Lang 1910
Chapter 4: True Ghost Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle 1920
Chapter 5: Irish Folk Lore and Halloween by Lagensiensis 1870
Chapter 6: Cocotte, a Canine Ghost Story By Guy De Maupassant 1912
Chapter 7: How to Become a Werewolf by Elliott O'Donnell 1912
Chapter 8: The Occult in Shadows by Elliott O'Donnell 1911
Chapter 9: Sun Worship and Halloween by Ruth Edna Kelley 1919
Chapter 10: The Wood of the Dead by Algernon Blackwood 1916
Chapter 11: What is a Ghoul?—Article from the St. Louis Republic 1890
Chapter 12: The Coffin-Lid (Russian Ghost Story) by W.R.S. Ralston 1873
Chapter 13: The History of the Terror Tale by Edith Birkhead M.A. 1921
Chapter 14: Murderous Ghosts by Jeremiah Curtin 1895
Chapter 15: Halloween Fires by Sir James George Frazer 1913
Chapter 16: The Black Dog and other Animal Ghosts by Frank Hamel 1915
Chapter 17: The History & Belief in Apparitions by Lewis Spence 1920
Chapter 18: The Horror: A True Tale by (Anonymous) 1915
Chapter 19: Poltergeists by Frank Podmore 1908
Chapter 20: A Canadian Ghost Story by Rev. Herbert H Gowe 1893
Chapter 21: Irish Poltergeists by John D Seymour and Harry L Neligan 1914
Chapter 22: The Apparition of the Murdered Boy by Hereward Carrington 1915
Chapter 23: Ghost Stories by James H. Hyslop 1917
Chapter 24: The Squaw by Bram Stoker 1914
Chapter 25: The Werewolf in European Folklore By Walter Keating Kelly 1863
Chapter 26: The Apparition By Guy De Maupassant 1911
Chapter 27: The Unburied Dead by Thomas Dyer 1898
Chapter 28: The Dance of Death by Algernon Blackwood 1917
Chapter 29: The Mythology of the Child-Stealing Witch by W.W. Newell 1900
Chapter 30: A Halloween Story by W.H. Davenport Adams 1882
Chapter 31: The Mysterious Angels of Mons by Hereward Carrington 1919
Chapter 32: The Ghost of the White Lady by Elliott O'Donnell 1911
Chapter 33: The History of the Planchette by Lewis Spence 1920
Chapter 34: A Polish Ghost Story by Charles John Tibbits 1890
Chapter 35: Why Ghosts Wander by T.F. Thiselton Dyer 1893
Chapter 36: Ghosts of the Murdered by T.F. Thiselton Dyer 1898
Chapter 37: Halloween Superstitions, article in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly 1895
Chapter 38: True Stories of Haunted Houses in Ireland by John D Seymour and Harry L Neligan 1914
Chapter 39: The Phantom Dachshund by Elliott O'Donnell 1913
Chapter 40: The Ghost that Resides in Each of Us, by William & Estelle Stead 1921
Chapter 41: Bulwer Lytton’s _The House and the Brain_, as described by Hereward Carrington
Chapter 42: The Vengeance of a Tree by Eleanor F. Lewis 1904
Chapter 43: The Dead Mother - Russian Ghost Story by W.R.S. Ralston 1873
Chapter 44: Warnings Of Peril And Death by William Thomas Stead 1921
Chapter 45: Witchcraft in North Carolina by Tom Peete Cross 1919
Chapter 46: The Strange Case of Kaspar Hauser
Chapter 47: Tales of the Banshee by Arthur Benjamin Reeve 1919
Chapter 48: The Witch Girl - Russian Folk-Tale by William Ralston 1873
Chapter 49: The Flying Dutchman and Other Legends of the Sea
Chapter 50: Halloween Frolics by Florence Kingsland 1904
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