Our Spooky Haunted Book Trailer Playlist

Halloween is only a month away, so it's time to do some fun reading about ghosts, hauntings, poltergeists, spirit communications, and such like.  Mooresville (Indiana) Public Library (MPL) has a paranormal book trailer playlist on YouTube for nonfiction books on these and related subjects.  See the entire video playlist here.

Click on the videos below to watch book trailers for these recommended reads.  Many of these items are available to checkout from MPL's Evergreen Indiana catalog.

 

RECOMMENDED READING

 

HOOSIER HAUNTINGS

These books discuss haunted places, ghosts, poltergeists, and spirit communications in Indiana.

 

 The Feeders at Night, by Aldo Gonzalez

(MPL Book Trailer 307)

(An Indiana Haunted House)

Haunted Histories in America, by Nancy Hendricks

(MPL Book Trailer 660)

(Includes Indiana Haunted Places)

 

The People in the Attic, by Doretta Johnson
(MPL Book Trailer 691)

(An Indiana Haunted House)

 

SPIRIT COMMUNICATION & THE AFTERLIFE

These books discuss evidential communications people purportedly have had with their deceased loves ones and friends, as well as other communicators.  Some communications allegedly describe the afterlife.  Some (such as A. Campbell Holms' book) offer comprehensive, encyclopedic coverage of all psi phenomena.

 

The Articulate Dead, by Michael E. Tymn

(MPL Book Trailer 710)

 

The Facts of Psychic Science, by A. Campbell Holms

(MPL Book Trailer 597)

 

 The New Revelation & The Vital Message, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(MPL Book Trailer 146)

 

Six Books About Animals & the Afterlife

(MPL Book Trailer 609)

What Happens When You Die, by Robert Crookall

(MPL Book Trailer 708)

 

 

 Four Books About Precipitated Spirit Portraits

(MPL Book Trailer 355)

 

The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D.

(MPL Book Trailer 184)

Four Afterlife Research Books by Rev. Charles L. Tweedale & Violet Tweedale

(MPL Book Trailer 818)

 

The World Unseen, by Anthony Borgia

(MPL Book Trailer 473)

The Supreme Adventure, by Robert Crookall

(MPL Book Trailer 406)

 

 

Conversations Beyond the Light, by Dr. Pat Kubis & Mark Macy

(MPL Book Trailer 81)

 

 

 A Study in Survival, by Roger Straughan

(MPL Book Trailer 109)

Unfinished Symphonies, by Rosemary Brown

(MPL Book Trailer 32)

HAUNTED PLACES, GHOSTS, & POLTERGEISTS

These books talk about specific haunted places, ghosts or earthbound spirits, possession/obsession, and poltergeist phenomena.  A couple of books suggest that spirits assisted archaeologists in finding unknown, lost ruins or artifacts.

Ghosts & Earth Bound Spirits, by Linda Williamson

(MPL Book Trailer 531)

Thirty Years Among the Dead, by Carl A. Wickland, M.D.

(MPL Book Trailer 153)

 

Poltergeist, by Colin Wilson

(MPL Book Trailer 63)

 

Poltergeists, by Alan Gauld & A. D. Cornell

(MPL Book Trailer 611)

This House is Haunted, by Guy Lyon Playfair

(MPL Book Trailer 152)

Two Books About Haunted Borley Rectory, by Harry Price

(MPL Book Trailer 823)
 

The World's Most Haunted House, by William J. Hall

(MPL Book Trailer 215)

True Ghost Stories, by the Marchioness Townshend of Raynham & Maude ffoulkes

(MPL Book Trailer 1)

 

 

The Gate of Remembrance, by Frederick Bligh Bond

(MPL Book Trailer 414)

The Mystery of the Buried Crosses, by Hamlin Garland

(MPL Book Trailer 100)

 

 

Spooky Hoosier Books, Part One

October is nearly here, so we've got Halloween on the horizon.  That means it's time to read some spooky books.  Mooresville Public Library has plenty available to checkout, both fiction (call numbers FIC and the first three letters of the author's last name) and nonfiction (call numbers 133 and 398, generally, although there are other places to find them, too).  Since this blog focuses upon Indiana-related (or, more precisely, Morgan County-related) subjects, I'll share the works of a few Hoosier paranormal writers.

Let's begin with Morgan County authors.

The Feeders at Night, by Aldo G. Gonzalez

(MPL Book Trailer #307)

Following a divorce, Aldo Gonzalez needed a new start and a new home.  The house he found offered features not included in the real estate multiple listings.  First, there were barely discernible footsteps and voices when no one else was present.  Then, the horror escalated.  Supernatural forces seemed to be feeding off the author.  You'll want to read this real-life terror with the lights on.  Check it out from the library's Evergreen Indiana catalog.

The People in the Attic, by Doretta Johnson with Jim Henderson

(MPL Book Trailer #691)

Beginning in 1987, Doretta Johnson and her family experienced a truly horrifying house haunting in Madison, Indiana.  Her 1995 book (written with Jim Henderson) will chill your bones.  From the safety of your armchair, it makes a marvelously spooky read.  Learn more here.  Evergreen Indiana cardholders may place a hold on the book here.

 

Looking for Carroll Beckwith, by Captain Robert L. Snow

(MPL Book Trailer #3)

Of course, most of the spooky Hoosier books available to checkout from Mooresville Public Library were written by Indiana authors living outside Morgan County.  Here are a few popular titles.

Captain Robert L. Snow, a retired Indianapolis police homicide commander, made a surprising discovery:  He remembered details from a previous life as painter James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917) that he could not reasonably have learned through ordinary means.  As a police detective, Snow was highly skeptical, but he was also open-minded in his investigations.  He chronicles his journey from extreme doubt to eventual conviction (in the truth of the matter, not in the criminal sense).  The book is available in the library's Evergreen Indiana catalog.

 

Four Books About Precipitated Spirit Portraits, by Various Authors

(MPL Book Trailer #355)

In a previous blog post, we discussed the Bangs sisters of Chicago, psychic mediums who specialized in precipitated spirit portraits.  These were purported portraits of deceased individuals that "painted themselves" without apparent human intervention.  Camp Chesterfield, a spiritualist camp near Anderson, Indiana, displays several of these portraits in their Hett Memorial Art Gallery and Museum.  (Read a PDF copy of the book, or, if  you prefer paper, drop by the MPL Indiana Room and peruse one of its copies.)  Many psychical researchers investigated the Bangs sisters and determined that their phenomena were genuine.

We featured Indianapolis resident May Wright Sewall's Neither Dead Nor Sleeping in a previous blog post.  Sewall (1844-1920) was best known as an advocate of women's suffrage, education, and world peace.  Few of her contemporaries knew that she was also interested in survival of bodily death, and she researched the subject for many years.  She reported her findings in this 1920 book, published posthumously and reprinted in 2008 by Cather Press.  It's available to checkout from the library's Evergreen Indiana catalog.

In my next blog post, we'll continue showcasing further haunted Indiana books by Hoosier writers.   There will be plenty of scares to go around!