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Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses
Haunted Halls Ghostlore of American College Campuses
Author: Elizabeth Tucker
Why do so many American college students tell stories about encounters with ghosts? In Haunted Halls, the first book-length interpretive study of college ghostlore, Elizabeth Tucker takes the reader back to school to get acquainted with a wide range of college spirits. Some of the best-known ghosts that she discusses are Emory Uni...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781578069941
ISBN-10: 1578069947
Publication Date: 10/1/2007
Pages: 241
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Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but if what you're looking for is a book of ghost stories, you will only enjoy this book if what you like is seeing them dissected as folklore and urban legend rather than told as stories.

I bought this hoping for light reading, and it was a rather dry, scholarly kind of book. I'm sure it's actually a pretty good example of of a scholarly book-length paper on campus ghosts, but it was not a light read.
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