While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Nonfiction Ghost books.
- Ghost: Building an Architectural Vision (2008)
- Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission (2002)
- Ghosts: True Encounters from the World Beyond (2004)
- Ghost Of (The Omnidawn Open) (2018)
- Ghosts: A Haunted History (2017)
- Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof (2015)
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (2007)
- Ghosts (2014)
- Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (2018)
- Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent (2009)
Ghost: Building an Architectural Vision (2008)
“Architecture is a social art.
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission (2002)
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation.
Ghosts: True Encounters from the World Beyond (2004)
“The greatest ‘ghostbusting’ manual ever written.” -Dan AykroydHans Holzer was the world’s leading authority and author in the field of ghosts and paranormal beings. This definitive volume, with a new introduction by Holzer’s daughter, is the largest collection of his work ever published. In Ghosts, Dr. Holzer tells us how to find a ghost, how to communicate with a ghost, how to get rid of a ghost, and then he tells us about more than 150 stories of true encounters with ghosts.
Ghost Of (The Omnidawn Open) (2018)
Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. By working with, in, and around the photographs that her brother left behind (from which he cut himself out before his death), Nguyen wrestles with what remains: memory, physical voids, and her family captured around an empty space.
Ghosts: A Haunted History (2017)
From that cheerful puff of smoke known as Casper to the hunkiest potter living or dead, Sam Wheat, there is probably no more iconic entity in supernatural history than the ghost. And these are just recent examples. From the earliest writings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to today’s ghost-hunting reality TV shows, ghosts have chilled the air of nearly every era and every culture in human history.
Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof (2015)
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice”Roger Clarke tells this [the story that inspired Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw] and many other gloriously weird stories with real verve, and also a kind of narrative authority that tends to constrain the skeptical voice within… [an] erudite and richly entertaining book.” ―New York Times Book Review”Is there anybody out there?” No matter how rationally we order our…
The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (2007)
A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year It’s the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure-garbage removal, clean water, sewers-necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure.
Ghosts (2014)
Acclaimed director Richard Eyre’s version of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it.Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father.
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (2018)
“Intriguing [and] enjoyable.” ―Ian McGuire, New York Times Book ReviewIce Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845―whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice―with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the recent incredible discoveries of the wrecks.
Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent (2009)
In this hard-hitting memoir, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, worldly-wise few.
Best Nonfiction Ghost Books Everyone Should Read
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Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are absolutely chart-busters according to The New York Times, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.