Dark Spirits

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Richard Estep is the author of more than 30 books, including Visible Ink Press’ Serial Killers: The Minds, Methods, and Mayhem of History's Most Notorious Murderers; The Serial Killer Next Door: The Double Lives of Notorious Murderers; Family, Friends and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal; and Grifters, Frauds, and Crooks: True Stories of American Corruption. Additionally, he’s written numerous paranormal nonfiction titles, including The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer’s Home. He is a regular columnist for Haunted Magazine and has also written for the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. Richard appears regularly on the TV shows Haunted Case Files, Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911, and Paranormal Night Shift. British by birth, Richard now makes his home a few miles north of Denver, Colorado, where he serves as a paramedic and lives with his wife and a menagerie of adopted animals.

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Take a dark descent into a world of supernatural evil! Explore true horrors of sinister spirits, ominous ghosts, angry souls, menacing monsters, malicious demons, and cursed creatures in this collection of the malevolent paranormal!



Sometimes the monsters are monsters — swimming the murky waters of Loch Ness, stalking their victims the streets of small town America, or hunting innocents across the desolate British moors. At other times, the darkness lies within the human soul itself — the falsely accused who were executed for witchcraft in Salem, those hounded to their graves (and beyond) by cruel pursuers, or those cursed by all forms of vile spirits. Then there are the devils and demons lurking in the darkness, capable of possessing and tormenting the living. 



Master storyteller and seasoned paranormal investigator Richard Estep presents sinister hordes of evil in Dark Spirits: Monsters, Demons, and Devils. This fright-filled read spans the darkest realms of the paranormal, including …


 Shapeshifters such as the menacing Skinwalkers of native mythology and ravenous, slavering werewolves 
Dreaded ghosts and ominous hauntings, including John Wayne Gacy’s ghost, the Amityville haunting, and the Villisca Axe Murder House
Dark and evil curses, from the curse of Superman and Steven Spielberg’s Poltergeist to the tomb of Egypt’s pharaoh Tutankhamun
Deadly demons and devils, like Dozmary Pool’s deal with the devil; Ronald Hunkeler, the Exorcist Boy; and the inhabitants of the Ammons demon house
Vampires and vampirism from Vlad the Impaler to Elizabeth Bathory, killer of hundreds, to the Highgate Vampire
Horrific accusations and deadly consequences that ripped through society from the Salem witch trials to the supernatural hysteria caused by the rapid spread of tuberculosis to the 1980s Satanic panic
Otherworldly encounters like the Black Eyed Children that appear out of nowhere, the Roswell Crash, unexplained animal mutilations, and abducted human beings
Cursed places, including the Bermuda Triangle, London’s haunted Underground, and Los Angeles’ notorious Hotel Cecil
And dozens more stories of dark and depraved paranormal beings and encounters.



Walk into the abyss of the whispered and veiled legends, the myths and first-person encounters in Dark Spirits. Learn about these frightening experiences and how they scarred lives forever. Explore the dark supernatural world around you—if you dare!

Contenu

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Joshua Dairen

Introduction



1. Dark Corners of the World

2. The Devil Within

3. In the Blood

4. The Dark Side of the Board

5. Cursed

6. Murder and the Occult

7. Hunting Witches

8. Something Monsterous

9. Stranger than Fiction

10. Not of this Earth

11. Shifting Shapes

12. Lost Souls and Angry Spirits

13. Making Sense of it All



Further Reading

Index