Varla Ventura's Paranormal Parlour: Ghosts, Seances, and Tales of True Hauntings
By (Author) Varla Ventura
Red Wheel/Weiser
Red Wheel/Weiser
9th August 2018
United States
General
Non Fiction
133.1
Paperback
272
Width 127mm, Height 178mm
From shimmering specters to mysterious tricks, Varla Ventura's Paranormal Parlor includes original supernatural tales, classic ghost stories, legends, hauntings, sances, superstitions, and death customs.
This book showcases a chilling collection of startling ghost stories as told to the author as well as legendary ghosts and haunted locations and an overview of the paranormal parlor games that rose to popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It also includes hidden history such as the story of Mark Twain's ghost, and the quiet horror writings of the architect who started the Gothic Revival movement (Ralph Adams Cram).
Varla Ventura is the author of Fairies, Pookas and Changelings, Banshees, Werewolves, Vampires and Other Creatures of the Night, Among the Mermaids, The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre. She can often be found lurking about the deep dark woods and lakes of Minnesota on the hunt for mushrooms, magical herbs and the elusive little men of legend.