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Haunted Houses
Haunted Houses | Corinne May Botz
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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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Haunted Houses | Corinne May Botz
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@TheReadingMermaid when you googled ‘haunted Halloween memes‘ and this one so relatable 😂.
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#momlife #teamstokers #hauntedhousememes

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TheBookAddict 🤣🤣🤣 yep! Even the cats and the dog. 😔 all I want to do is sleep in. 4y
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LauraBrook
Haunted Houses | Corinne May Botz
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A collection of photographs of haunted places all over the US along with people‘s haunted experiences. In one of them you see a smokey form, but most everything else could be described best as “low lighting made to look spooky”. I enjoyed the stories more than the photographs, and it‘s printed on shiny black paper in a small coffee table size, so that was nice. Wouldn‘t go out of my way to find this. 3 ⭐️

Reggie The couple from the Conjuring movies, have you seen them? 1 is great, part 2, don‘t bother, but they‘re real life people and have this tagged book. It scared the crap out of me cause those things have all happened. First half is them warming up but the 2nd half will make you keep the lights on at night. 6y
[DELETED] 3803335244 This is cool! I‘ve always liked to read & watch scary books about hauntings but I‘d never visit a place. That‘s just too scary. I‘d be afraid the ghost would follow me home. Lol 😂 6y
LauraBrook @Reggie I watched the first movie and almost wet my pants I got so scared! I think I‘m better off reading about it, so thank you for the recommendation! 6y
LauraBrook @ForeverNerdy Hah! I‘ve always seen and heard things, and my family visited haunted places when I was little, so I‘m mostly okay with it. But for some reason, a haunted house will leave me terrified for years. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I‘m weird, I know. 6y
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LauraBrook
Haunted Houses | Corinne May Botz
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My latest book buying binge, this time from Hamilton Books. I usually buy from them once or twice a year, and this time since they had not only a bunch of stuff on my wishlist, but some great Christmas gifts, I was forced to splurge!
#whome #idonthaveaproblem #booksforever

Nebklvr So jealous 7y
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Hobbinol Wowee! 7y
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LauraBrook @MrBook Thanks! @Nebklvr Hope you gets stacks like this for the holiday! @GeraldineReads Thank you! @Hobbinol I know. No idea where to put them, either! @James Thanks! @LeahBergen No kidding! My poor mail lady. @Lizpixie Ditto! I'm working my way through the Poirot series, and saving Miss Marple for once I'm done w Hercule. 😊 @Moray_Reads Thank you! I think my house is 60% books by now. 😉 7y
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