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If hospital walls could talk, what tales would they tell? Hospitals are the nexus point between life and death, the place into which people enter this world, but also exit it. In this book, paramedic and paranormal investigator Richard Estep recounts some of the most fascinating and often chilling stories of hospital hauntings from across the globe. Readers will experience a journey around the world, stopping off at a wide spectrum of haunted hospitals...
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Mad passions volume 1
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"Lord Ian Blake has returned from India a broken man. Years ago, he pledged to Lady Eva Carin-- his childhood companion and first love-- that he would bring her husband back alive. His failure haunts him. But even his jaded soul can't anticipate the shocking sight of beautiful, independent Eva confined in a madhouse. Locked in an asylum, forgotten by society, Eva is adrift in both body and mind. For Ian to break her free, they must cross a powerful...
45) Asylum
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In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.
46) Pennhurst
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A story of segregation, abandonment, and the meaning of home as told by the people that lived in, worked at, and crusaded for one of the largest and oldest Intellectual and Developmental Disability Institutions in the United States.
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During the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1919, a young woman is wrongfully incarcerated in an asylum and discovers an institution driven by control, manipulation, and greed. With the help of her young suitor and others in the Asylum, she brings to light the reprehensible and hidden activities that have gone unnoticed.
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Ghost ship: Tom Merriam, the young third mate on a freighter bound for Patagonia, witnesses the murder of a crewman by the ship's captain, Will Stone. Merriam realizes Stone is going insane, but the rest of the crew won't believe him or that he may be the mad captain's next victim!
Bedlam: Boris Karloff reunites with Lewton for a third and final time in 1946's Bedlam, set in 1761 at a London asylum. Karloff gives an unforgettable performance as the...
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"New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island sideshow. But the Church has burnt to the ground, their...
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"Ewa, siostra bliźniaczka Piotra, zaginęła bez śladu. I chociaż minęło już dziewięć lat, on nadal nie potrafi se się z tym pogodzić. Nieoczekiwanie w sprawie Ewy pojawia się nowy trop. Jej zdjęcie znaleziono w rzeczach Patrycji, dziewczyny zamordowanej w Azylu, miasteczku gdzieś na końcu świata. Śledczy bezradnie rozkładają ręce, a Piotr bez chwili wahania wyrusza w podróż, by dowiedzieć się społeczność, mroczne sekrety...
55) The key
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1956. It's Ellen Crosby's first day as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young woman committed by her father, and a pioneering physician keen to try out the various 'cures' for mental illness, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change all their lives for ever ... 2006. Sarah is drawn to the abandoned Ambergate Asylum. Whilst exploring the old corridors she discovers a suitcase belonging to a...
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Is mental illness-- or madness-- at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This book explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers...
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Step inside a madhouse of horror and experience the chilling new incarnation of TV₂s most daringly provocative series. The sins of the past haunt the present at the notorious Briarcliff home for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude. Forbidden desire and terrifying evil lurk around every corner, from alien abduction to demonic possession to a skin-wearing psychopath known as 'Bloody Face.'
58) The bone jar
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Detective Lew Kirby volume 1
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The body of an elderly woman has been found in the bowels of a derelict asylum on the banks of the Thames. As Detective Lew Kirby and his partner begin their investigation, another body is discovered in the river nearby. How are the two murders connected? Before long, the secrets of Blackwater Asylum begin to reveal themselves. There are rumours about underground bunkers and secret rooms, unspeakable psychological experimentation, and a dark force...
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