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    The Haunted Photograph: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    The Haunted Photograph: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    The Haunted Photograph: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    The Haunted Photograph: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

    By Ruth McEnery Stuart and Varla Ventura

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    Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.

    This humorous ghost story centers around a photograph of an eerie hotel that seems to come to life when anyone looks upon it. Rife with a colloquial expressions from late 1800's New England, learn how a dying widow was slighted by unfaithful ghosts of years gone by.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateDec 22, 2011
    ISBN9781619400337
    The Haunted Photograph: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    Ruth McEnery Stuart

    Ruth McEnery Stuart (1852–1917) was an early twentieth century American author as well as one of the original spoken word artists. She was published frequently in numerous popular publications including Harpers Magazine and New Princeton Review and became most remembered during her writing career (which spanned from 1888 to her death in 1917) for her oral performances of the numerous articles, short stories, and verses she composed.

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      The Haunted Photograph - Ruth McEnery Stuart

      A Widow's Tale

      On the charming scrap of land in the foothills where I was raised, in the location that has been a thriving garden for the last thirty-five years, is the ghost of a hotel. Once host to miners and prospectors who were making their way into the hills of California in search of the illusive golden nugget, this hotel hummed with patrons. That was, of course, until a fire raged through the hillside and burnt it to the ground. When first hoeing away the earth that gave way to beds of carrots and Mr. McGregor style cabbages, we would often find square nails and signed pieces of support beam—miraculously preserved in the red clay for some one hundred years.

      I have always had a picture in my mind of what this hotel looked like, though any record of it was lost before my family ever came to know about it. I had an immediate picture of the same hotel in my mind when I started reading The Haunted Photograph. I found this story refreshing in more ways than one. It isn't setting out to be a terrifying tale—in fact it was originally published as part of a collection called Humourous Ghost Stories. The early 20th century author, Ruth McEnery Stuart, was also one of the original spoken word artists. An American born writer most known for her contributions to popular publications such as Harpers Magazine and New Princeton Review, she became most remembered during her writing career (which spanned from 1888 to her death in

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