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Resurrection Mary is a well-known Chicago area ghost story, of the "vanishing hitchhiker" type, a type of folklore that is known in many cultures. According to the story, the ghost resides in Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Resurrection Mary is considered to be Chicago's most famous ghost. [1] [2] [3]
M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) Elfriede Jelinek, Die Kinder der Toten (1995) Rikard Jorgovanić, Love upon the Catafalque (1876), Dada (1878) and A Wife and a Lover (1878)
National Book Award Finalist Frank Norris: The Pit: A Chicago Story: 1903 Fredric Brown: The Fabulous Clipjoint: 1947 Graham Masterton: Headlines [1] 1986 Halle Butler: The New Me: 2019 ISBN 978-1474612296: Harry Stephen Keeler: The Riddle of the Traveling Skull: 1934 ISBN 1-932416-26-9: James Patterson and David Ellis: The Black Book: 2017 ...
The first book contains 29 stories that Schwartz collected from folklore books, collections, and archives, as well as from interviews with informants. [9] [10] The stories in this book include: jump stories (stories that end with a jump scare) ghost stories, including a retelling of The Suffolk Miracle; folk music, including The Hearse Song
Homey the Clown was an urban legend (specifically Chicago) surrounding a killer clown, predating the "Creepy Clown Craze" by several years, originating in Chicago, Illinois in 1991. [ 58 ] The Honey Island Swamp monster is a sasquatch-like creature that can allegedly be found living in the Honey Island Swamp of Louisiana .
There's plenty of White House hauntings on the list -- with a few former first ladies still roaming inside America's most famous house. Former U.S. president John Adams and his wife Abigail were ...
In a recent Dark House podcast interview, D.C. journalist Sally Quinn shared that all her homes are haunted. Read her best ghost stories here.
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1990s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1990 through 1999 . The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...