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| SPOTLIGHT
ON THE LIBRARY |
October 1, 2002
October in Western New York represents what is truly fall in my mind.
The days are shorter, school is back in session, and the nip in the air
brings on the fantastic red, yellow, and bronzes on the trees. Along
with all of these things there are more reasons to stay home in the
evenings. Once in a while something a little electrifying can spark our
attention. The David A. Howe Library has books and videos that will
satisfy your craving for a chilling ghost story or a thrilling mystery.
Death is an important part of every culture and the curious will find
that the library can supply facts and answers about the history and
rituals that connect science to life and death. The Mummy Congress:
Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead by Heather Pringle
(393.3 PRI) takes the reader along on a journey that explores the
ancient mummification rituals around the globe. When Pringle, a science
journalist, was sent to cover the proceedings of a conference of
scientists working with mummies she discovered her own passion. The
Egyptians weren’t the first or only culture to mummify their dead.
Sacrifices to the gods, signs of respect, and murder are all recorded by
the not so silent mummies that we study today. |
This
"Spotlight on the Library" article was written by library
staff writer, Emily Barney. Articles are written and published monthly
in the Wellsville Daily Reporter.
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date below to read an article from the archive.
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| Washington Irving is considered the Father of
the American short story because of his contribution to America’s
tradition of legends and stories and such tales as The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle are still well known. The
Complete Tales of Washington Irving contains these and many more
classic stories of ghosts and the stuff of legends and tall tales.
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, although short, packs
enough chills and late night shivers for an epic or movie! This is
considered by many, including myself, to be the quintessential ghost
story. If you’re not familiar with it this story of the haunting of
two children by ghosts will add to your conception of what really makes
it hard to turn the light out at night.
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Many people today enjoy reading suspenseful mystery
novels, but what they probably don’t know is that they have Edgar Allan
Poe to thank for introducing the genre of the detective story to America.
Some of the most interesting and suspenseful short stories ever are
together in Tales of Mystery and Imagination, all of which are
guaranteed to make you shiver and leave you a little dazed.
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| The David A. Howe Library is well stocked to
provide you with today’s variety of scary and eerie videos. A Dark
Adapted Eye (M 1222) tells the chilling story behind the last woman to
be hanged in England for murder. If questioning of what’s possible is
what you want, borrow The Blair Witch Project (M 1636). If you
watch The Sixth Sense (M 1709) you’ll find out the story behind a
little boy saying "I see dead people". The Woman in
White (D 155) is based on the novelist Wilkie Collins’s addictingly
popular suspense novel of the last century. |
CLICK
HERE TO SEARCH THE CATALOG FOR MORE MYSTERY BOOKS AND SUSPENSE MOVIES
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The art of mystery and suspense is not so much reliant on
what is said, as what is unsaid. Find out what your imagination and a
suggestion can do for your entertainment when you come to the library to
pick out a book or a video. |
This page was last updated
September 22, 2005
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