Haunted theaters
Subtitle: playhouse phantoms, opera house horrors, and backstage banshees
By: retold by Tom Ogden.
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780762749492
Subjects: Haunted theaters
Description: From the Publisher: Thirty-five gripping tales of ghostly goings-on and other worldly encounters in theaters across North America and London. The hard part isn't finding theaters that are haunted-it's finding theaters that aren't! Haunted Theaters comprises thirty-five suspenseful stories of spooky visitations and supernatural happenings in historic theaters, opera houses, and other stages from Broadway to America's many regional theaters, from Canada to London's West End. Each tale is guaranteed to entertain-and have you clenching your teeth. Read about all this and more: Percy Keene, who was stage manager at the Grand Opera House in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, from 1895 up until his death in 1967, still shows up for duty. Klondike Kate was known as the "Flower of the North." No wonder the dancer, muse, and financier of vaudeville theater owner Alexander Pantages still visits her old dressing room at the Palace Grand Theatre in the Yukon's Dawson City. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London is the most haunted theater in England-some say, in the world.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The great white way; title: The bishop of Broadway; title: The Ziegfeld girl; title: Playing the palace; title: A night at the opera; title: Part II: Ghosts of the American stage; title: No exit; title: Vex not his ghost; title: Not now, Gilmor?; title: Only a ghost in a Gilded Cage; title: Little boy lost; title: Take me back to Tulsa; title: Exit, dying; title: The stained-glass spirit; title: The house of Usher; title: The ghost of DD113; title: The apparition of the alley; title: Mary, Mary, quite contrary; title: Nightmares in Nashville; title: The spectral sweeper; title: Without a trace; title: Freddie the Phantom; title: Phantoms from the fire; title: Phantom at the Fulton; title: Ford's phantom; title: School spirit; title: The schoolhouse hauntings; title: Part III: Canadian caspers; title: The queen of the Klondike; title: By George!; title: The mischief of Bloody Mary; title: The return of Ambrose Small; title: Wraiths at the winter garden; title: Part IV: There'll always be an England; title: I shall come back?; title: Buckstone's back; title: The phantom at the opera; title: The strangler jacket; title: The most haunted theater in the world.