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The True Story Of Seances, Mediums, Ghosts, And Ghostbusters
Rodale Books
October 2009
On Sale: September 29, 2009
264 pages
ISBN: 1605298751
EAN: 9781605298757
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Peter Aykroyd spent his childhood watching his family’s
parlor séances through the crack of a basement door. Here,
for the first time, Aykroyd tells the strange and delightful
story that inspired his son, Dan, to make the mega-hit,
Ghostbusters. Part history, part family legend, A History of
Ghosts starts in 1848 in upstate New York, where the
spiritualist craze first began. Aykroyd introduces the
reader to notable mediums while telling the story of the
development of spiritualism, interweaving a personal history
marked by a fascination with ghosts and spirits with the
larger narrative about the role the paranormal has played in
our culture. Such legendary figures as Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle and Harry Houdini appear and vanish. Everyone loves a good ghost story. Successful TV shows such
as Medium and Ghost Hunters are proof that our national
obsession with ghosts is here to stay. Millions of Americans
believe in the paranormal—and even skeptics have heard a
bump in the night and suspected it might be something
supernatural.
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