Hell House: And Other TRUE Hauntings from Around the World

By Alison Rattle and Allison Vale

Book Overview

The chilling title of this hair-raising volume refers to the real-life Hell House of New Orleans--a mansion haunted by the ghosts of tortured and murdered slaves. But that's only one of the 43 forbidding locations documented within these pages. Bold readers are invited to go on a world-spanning tour of haunted places, to meet ghosts, apparitions, and spirits such as the Windigo of the remote Canadian forests, which possesses unwary travelers and compels them to eat human flesh. Here also are such horrors as the moving coffins of Barbados, the Hungry Ghosts of China, and other bizarre manifestations of the spirit world. Truly a feast of shudders and thrills for all fans of the supernatural.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402763107
• ISBN13: 9781402763106
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful hard cover and spooky stories!

I love beautiful hardcover books, I've been searching high and low for a good paranormal book with a beautiful cover and I have!

if you like ghost tales......

This book, with its great cover with the glowing red eyes, was given to me by a good friend. She knows I love ghost stories, and anything ghost related. There are lots of interesting stories in here, and I devoured this book with enthusiasm. The book covers stories from all over the world. Some of the more local ones are legendary, but the tales from other countries are the ones that I found the most interesting, both for their history and "ghost factor". I would have liked to see more pictures to go with the stories, but other that that, the book was well written and a fun read.

An interesting book.

I am interested in ghost stories. This book had a combination of them, each written well.

Pleasant nightmares...

Always enjoyable fare for those rainy afternoons and evenings. What is also notable about this tome is the sheer quality and imagination that went into the binding and cover. Engraved design with actual red 'gems' for eyes in the sockets of the skull. Splendid

Spooky Bed-time Book on unique Global Hauntings .

Check out the red-glowing recessed eyes,on the hard-cover! This is a fun and interesting collection of classic paranormal stories,from around the world.(Some i would take,cum grano salis,however.)Mostly,it's of true historical events ,yet of still unexplained native banshees and other strange mysteries. Antiquified pictures and clear geo-maps inside.Great autumn-night reading! Bay-vahre of the duppies,mon! Booo!