Craig gerard ferguson (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Catacombs stacked with six million skulls. A Japanese forest silent enough to swallow a scream. A fort in Rajasthan the government has legally forbidden anyone to enter after dark. A village where one woman's grief filled empty streets with life-sized dolls.Extraordinarily Creepy Places travels to one hundred of the world's darkest, strangest, and most historically haunted locations - from Auschwitz to Aokigahara, from Cerro Rico's silver mines to a Swedish vicarage that terrified generations of priests. Organized continent by continent, each entry digs past the campfire version of the story to the documented history underneath - and is honest about exactly where the two stop matching up.Guiding the whole unsettling tour is Craig Gerard Ferguson: self-described supernatural investigator, urban explorer, and unapologetically smug veteran of thirty-one years spent standing in rooms most people would rather not enter. Equal parts historian and showman, he'll tell you which curses are real, which ones just need a better publicist, and which places deserve your silence rather than your flashlight.Equal parts travel guide, history book, and haunted-house tour led by someone who's clearly seen too much, Extraordinarily Creepy Places is for anyone who has ever wanted to know exactly how dark the world's darkest corners really get - and why.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Forty-Second Street, 1977. The marquees never go dark and neither does he.He is nineteen, a St. Jude's Academy blazer buttoned over a body that still remembers every hand that's ever been laid on it wrong. He carries his grandmother's crucifix the way other men carry a blade. He believes, with the total clarity of the truly lost, that God has given him a list.Her name is Serafina. She works the corner under a marquee with half its bulbs burned out, and she is, to him, the last untouched thing in a city built to ruin everything it touches. Every man who has hurt her - a landlord, a cop, a priest, a man named Rico who owns the block she stands on - becomes a station on a walk he is certain is holy.He keeps something from each of them. He tells himself it's evidence. It's closer to a relic.HOLY GHOST AND THE HARLOT'S CROSS is a gothic-noir descent through the Deuce at its ugliest and most alive - a story about faith curdled into obsession, mercy mistaken for murder, and a boy who never once, from the first page to the last, tells you the whole truth.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*Fakes, Frauds, and F\*ckers\* is a rollicking, unflinching tour through thirty-one of history's greatest liars: the impostors, hoaxers, forgers, and swindlers who convinced kings, scientists, bankers, and entire nations to believe things that were never true. Along the way you'll meet the insurance man who built his own Stonehenge, the forger who fooled the Nazis with a fake Vermeer, the 'Great Impostor' who performed real surgery on real patients with zero medical training, and the two women who started the Spiritualism movement with nothing but cracked toe joints and an apple on a string. This isn't just a catalogue of clever tricks. It's a book about \*why\* people believe - about the specific hungers, blind spots, and institutional egos that let a five-ton block of carved gypsum pass for a petrified giant, or let a small-time East German memorabilia dealer convince a major news magazine he'd found Hitler's private diaries. Some of these stories are darkly funny. A few are genuinely harrowing - the exploitation behind P.T. Barnum's early career, the humanitarian catastrophe of a fake country sold to real settlers. All of them are true, or as true as a book about liars can promise to be. Written in the same myth-correcting spirit as the great con-artist collections of decades past, updated with cases as recent as the 1990s, \*Fakes, Frauds, and Fuckers\* is for anyone who's ever wondered how, exactly, so many smart people got taken in - and what that says about the rest of us. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.