The New York Grimpendium: A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites in New York State
354The New York Grimpendium: A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites in New York State
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ISBN-13: | 9780881509908 |
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Publisher: | Countryman Press, The |
Publication date: | 10/01/2012 |
Pages: | 354 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction 10
1 Legends and Personalities of the Macabre 15
Edgar Allan Poe 16
Rod Serling 20
Washington Irving 23
Fox Sisters 27
Joe Coleman 31
Basil Rathbone 35
Joan Crawford 38
Conrad Veidt 40
H. P. Lovecraft 42
Harry Houdini 45
Peter Steele 47
Lloyd Kaufman 49
Charles Addams 55
Mary Shelley 57
Charles Fort 60
Henry Hull 62
Frank Belknap Long 65
2 Infamous Crimes, Killers, and Tragedies 69
Son of Sam Locations 71
Crave of a Jack the Ripper Suspect 74
Skull and Noose of a Murderer 77
Wall Street Bomb Damage 79
Sing Sing Prison Exhibit 81
Grave and Quarantine Island of Typhoid Mary 84
Cory Lidle Crash Site 86
The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park 88
American Merchant Mariners' Memorial 90
Rulloff's Brain 92
World's Fair Bomb Plaque 95
Yankee Leaper Sites 96
9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero 100
Wisteria Cottage 103
Boyd-Parker Torture Tree 105
Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument 108
William McKinley Assassination Site and Gun 109
Flight Crash Memorials 112
John Lennon Murder Site and Memorial 117
Love Canal 119
Renwick Smallpox Hospital 122
Grave and Memorial of Leo Frank 124
Joel Rifkin House 127
Brooklyn Theatre Fire Mass Grave 129
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Site and Memorials 131
Auburn Correctional Facility 133
The Electrified and the Electrifying 135
General Slocum Tragedy Site and Memorials 138
Angel of Death Hospital 141
Collyer Brothers Park 143
National Shrine of North American Martyrs 146
Van Nest Family Gravestone 148
3 Horror Movie Filming Locales 153
King Kong (1933) 155
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) 157
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) 159
Rosemary's Baby (1968) 162
Dark Shadows Movies (1970/1971) 164
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974) 167
The Sentinel (1977) 169
He Knows You're Alone (1980) 171
Fear No Evil (1981) 174
Wolfen (1981) 176
The New York Ripper (1982) 178
Q (1982) 179
Basket Case (1982) 181
Sleepaway Camp (1983) 183
Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II (1984/1989) 185
C.H.U.D. (1984) 189
Lady in White (1988) 191
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) 193
Jacob's Ladder (1990) 195
Wolf (1994) 197
The Devil's Advocate (1997) 199
Wendigo (2001) 201
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) 203
1408 (2007) 205
I Sell the Dead (2008) 207
The Skeptic (2009) 209
4 Notable Graves, Cemeteries, and Other Memento Mori 213
Grave of Chester A. Arthur 215
Green-Wood Cemetery 216
Murder of Crows 219
The Three Crows 221
Grave of a Boy Killed by Kisses 222
Arthur Kill Ship Graveyard 224
Historic Pet Cemeteries 226
Morbid Anatomy Library 229
Ripley's Shrunken Head Collection 231
Reed's Tomb 234
Staten Island Ruins 237
George Eastman Suicide Note 239
Forest Lawn Cemetery 241
Utica State Asylum 243
Washington Square Park 245
Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel 248
Grant's Tomb 249
Grave of an Amiable Child 252
Body of Mother Cabrini 254
Grave of George Frederick Cooke 256
African Burial Ground 259
Wilder Brain Collection 261
Obscura Antiques and Oddities 263
Girl in a Glass Coffin 265
5 Classic Monsters 269
Cardiff Giant 270
Amityville Horror 273
Peace Fountain 276
New York Lake Monsters 278
Whitehall Bigfoot 281
Mars 2112 283
Cup and Saucer Diner 285
House of Frankenstein 288
Castle of Count von Count 290
Haunted Barn Movie Museum 293
Haunted Dark Rides 296
The Jekyll and Hyde Club 301
H. Leivick's Golem 304
The Slaughtered Lamb Pub 307
Gargoyles and Grotesques 310
Rolling Hills Asylum 312
Lily Dale Assembly 315
"Ghostbusters Ruling" House 319
Castle of the Lady in White 321
Cave of Evil Spirits 323
Georgetown Spirit House 326
Tahawus Ghost Town 328
New York Mummies 331
Acknowledgments 337
Index 339