| Description |
268 pages : black and white illustrations, 23 cm |
| Summary |
At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed on the unwary from the shadows. Ship captains spoke to the dead, while undertakers discovered reanimated corpses no longer requiring services. From posh mansions built on massacre grounds to the drowned quarries of a forest preserve, Ursula Bielski follows the dark undercurrents beneath the electric lights of the World's Fair. -- Back cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268). |
| Contents |
Foreword / Jeff Mudgett ; Introduction -- The massacre tree ; The doors of Prarie Avenue ; The occurrence at Sag Bridge ; The quarries and the canal ; The Indian cemetery ; The watchman ; The water stop ; Quarters 63 ; The beach people ; The missionaries and the acolytes ; The hanging man ; The custom house ; Room for one more ; The soldiers' lot ; The omen ; The vampire hunters ; The fort ; The old stacks ; Ghosts of Englewood and the cures of H.H. Holmes ; The haunted palace ; Night at the museum ; The swami and the storyteller ; Wild nights ; The wood walkers ; The bridge of sighs ; The head of Belle Gunness ; The old red ship and a lady in black ; The great ghost panic of 1098 ; The demon of Lemont ; Mrs. Jekyll and Hyde ; The devil baby ; The haunting of bachelors grove ; The lake monster ; The loss of Chicora ; The mystifying silence and the ghosts of Graceland ; Philomena and the Merchant Kings ; The petrified nuns and the ghost of Mother Galway ; Muldoon ; The North Shore Road ; The boy who drank holy water ; The fire doors ; The after-death experiments ; The poor farm ; The stand and the jail ; The sausage maker ; Mediums at large ; Notes ; Selected bibliography ; About the author. |
| Subject |
Ghosts -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Haunted places -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Illinois -- History.
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| ISBN |
9781467139656 |
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1467139653 |
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