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Haunted Houses (Hardcover, New)
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Haunted Houses (Hardcover, New)
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"When I was between the ages of five and eight, my sister and I
slept in a large attic bedroom. At nightfall the room was filled
with gypsies who glided around in clusters. They wore colorful thin
flowing dresses and rummaged greedily through my drawers and books
as if they would steal everything. I lay in bed as stiff as a
board, trying to will myself invisible, praying they would not
notice me looking . . . Daylight obliterated the gypsies, rendering
them as thoroughly insubstantial as they had been real in the dark.
I had a vague understanding that my vision was private, so I never
told my family what I saw."
So began Corinne May Botz's fascination with the invisible, a
phenomenon that has profoundly influenced her approach to
photography in style and subject matter. For more than ten years,
she searched for ghost stories in buildings across the United
States. She ventured into these haunted places with both camera and
tape recorder in hand; her photographs, accompanied by first-person
narratives, reveal a rare glimpse into American interiors, both
physical and psychological.
This book includes more than eighty haunted buildings, from the
legendary to the ordinary, including Edgar Allan Poe's house in
Baltimore, a New Jersey tavern, and a Massachusetts farmhouse, a
log cabin in Kentucky, and a number of private residences. The text
includes ghost stories told to the author by those who lived
through the moving rugs, creaking floors, apparitions,
disappearing--and reappearing--objects, cries in the night,
mysteriously burning candles, and other unexplained occurrences.
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