{"id":3378,"date":"2019-10-23T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:48:29","slug":"halloween-reads-at-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/blog\/halloween-reads-at-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Reads at the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of year again! The leaves are changing and the weather is dramatically fluctuating between warm and astonishingly cold as Fall tries to get its footing. The perfect time to curl up under a blanket and read something eerie. If you&#8217;re looking for a good non-fiction book to read in honor of Halloween then this is the list for you.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the books in our collection that are excellent for this season:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Witchcraft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3382\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/10\/The-devils-disciples-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/10\/The-devils-disciples-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/10\/The-devils-disciples.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 The devil&#8217;s disciples : makers of the Salem witchcraft trials by Peter Charles Hoffer<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0The specter of Salem : remembering the witch trials in nineteenth-century America by Gretchen A. Adams<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Witchcraft narratives in Germany : Rothenburg 1561-1652 by Alison Rowlands<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Whores of the devil : witch-hunts and witch-trials by Erik Durschmied<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Witch hunters : professional prickers, unwitchers &amp; witch finders of the Renaissance by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Werewolves, witches, and wandering spirits : traditional belief and folklore in early modern Europe by Kathryn A. Edwards<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Ghosts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0\u00a0Possessions : the history and uses of haunting in the Hudson Valley by Judith Richardson<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Specters of the self : thinking about ghosts and ghost-seeing in England, 1750-1920 by Shane McCorristine<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3386\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/10\/seven-gables-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/10\/seven-gables-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/10\/seven-gables.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0The house of the seven gables, a romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0The supernatural in society, culture, and history edited by Dennis D. Waskul and Marc A Eaton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Possession<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Demon possession in Elizabethan England by Kathleen R. Sands<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Discerning spirits : divine and demonic possession in the Middle Ages by\u00a0 Nancy Caciola<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>True Crime<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0\u00a0Death in the air : the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city by Kate Winkler Dawson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 Death in the Haymarket : a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America by James R. Green<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 Mary Jane&#8217;s ghost : the legacy of a murder in small town America by Ted Gregory<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 Serial killers : psychiatry, criminology, responsibility by Francesca Biagi-Chai<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 Jack the Ripper : the definitive history by Paul Begg<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 Leopold and Loeb : the crime of the century by Hal Higdon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 The notorious Mrs. Clem : murder and money in the Gilded Age by Wendy Gamber<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 Killer on the road : violence and the American interstate by Ginger Gail Strand<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 Jack the Ripper and the London press by L. Perry Curtis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 Death in Beijing : murder and forensic science in Republican China by Daniel S. Asen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 The invention of murder : how the Victorians reveled in death and detection and created modern crime by Judith Flanders<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 The infamous Harry Hayward : a true account of murder and mesmerism in gilded age Minneapolis by Shawn Francis Peters<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 The secret poisoner : a century of murder by Linda Stratmann<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>A bit of everything else<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 The Martians are coming! : the true story of Orson Welles&#8217; 1938 panic broadcast by Alan Gallop<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 The secret history of the world : as laid down by the secret societies by Mark Booth<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 The black death by Joseph Patrick<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds by Charles Mackay<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 The great cat massacre : and other episodes in French cultural history by Robert Darnton<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 The secret token : myth, obsession, and the search for the lost colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Mummies, cannibals, and vampires : the history of corpse medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians by Richard Sugg<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Spook : science tackles the afterlife by Mary Roach<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Not your average zombie : rehumanizing the undead from voodoo to zombie walks by Chera Kee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of year again! The leaves are changing and the weather is dramatically fluctuating between warm and astonishingly cold as Fall tries to get its footing. The perfect time to curl up under a blanket and read something eerie. 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