Haunted Rhode Island | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas D'agostino
Creator: Arlene Nicholson
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0764323504
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.109745
EAN: 9780764323508
ASIN: 0764323504
Publication Date: December 2005
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Product Description
Small and alluring, Rhode Island is home to many who refuse to leave, even after death. Illustrated with over 60 photos, here are tales of hauntings, vampires, mysterious cairns, wailing brooks, and floating coffins encountered throughout Rhode Island. Haunted locations include Barrington, Bristol, Burrillville, Charlestown, Coventry, Cranston, Cumberland, East Providence, Exeter, Foster, Glocester, Jamestown, Middletown, Narragansett, New Shoreham, Newport, North Kingstown, Portsmouth, Providence, Scituate, Smithfield, South Kingstown, Tiverton, Warren, Warwick, West Greenwich, West Warwick, Westerly, and Woonsocket. Long dead sailors prowl lonely docks, departed schoolmasters seek their charges, phantom girls giggle in a state park, ambushed soldiers of centuries past scream, and a mysterious man in gray walks among the tombstones. These are tales sure to chill you in the dead of night!
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 boring October 16, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I thought buying a book on hauntings would be a bit bone chilling. This book was written like an encyclopedia. This book is short stories about famous hauntings in rhode island. Honestly I read 80% of the stories on-line. I wish i didn't buy this book.
 Very poorly written November 18, 2006
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
This was one of the most difficult books I have ever attempted to read. It is filled with misplaced modifiers, misused words, tense confusion, poor sentence structure, too-short sentences, repetition, dangling participles, and misspelled proper names, e.g., Edgar ALLAN Poe (not ALLEN as the author misspells it), interspersed with foolishness about orbs, EVP and EMF readings. Throughout the book, the author also confuses the words HISTORIC and HISTORICAL, misusing both.
I kept having to read, and reread, paragraphs to figure out what the author was trying to say. Pure and simple, Mr. d'Agostino cannot write. Following is a sample of the author's prose (and believe me, I use the term loosely) taken directly from the book:
The Sprague Manor is arguably one of the most haunted houses in the state of Rhode Island. Many tragedies have unfolded in this eighteenth century homestead. These tragedies have left vexes in the passing of time that now and forever reside in the former estate of the prominent yet tragic family. (Vexes? What the heck are vexes? Vexes, as everyone knows [well, everyone except the author] is a verb and verbs cannot be left in the passing of time or anywhere else. My 12-year-old niece can write better than this.)
Another puzzling sentence:
Nellie Vaughn's tomb is not the only landmark on the premises that has a peculiar allegation. (How can a landmark have an ALLEGATION? Another misused word. Mr. d'Agnostino is in desperate need of a dictionary!)
In another story, he claims it is the only time in American history in which a spirit of the dead provided evidence in a murder trial. Obviously, Mr. d'Agostino is unfamiliar with a similar case in Greenbrier, West Virginia. Not surprising because he seems to be unfamiliar with just about everything.
In another passage from the book, the author is at his amateurish worst, writing:
In the Dexter House, the residents say many spirits roam the halls and basement. They are not frightening, just seemingly lost (the residents or the spirits?). This would seem more apt as the building was once a morgue. Maybe the entities do not know they are dead. (Maybe Mr. d'Agostino does not know he cannot write.)
Mr. d'Agostino, who claims he has been investigating the paranormal for 23 years, drones on for approximately 155 pages (some pages aren't numbered), yet, omits one of Rhode Island's most intriguing ghost stories, and another associated with what is arguably one of the most recognizable houses in the US.
 The Best Places to Visit in Rhode Island April 7, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
What an interesting read! If you didn't know, 20 percent of the country's historic landmarks are located in Rhode Island (Rhode Islander's love old things) and as it turns out many of the historic residents are lingering in Rhode Island too. Buy this book for the illuminating and fascinating info that it contains, and then come visit the places it describes!
 Spooky and entertaining... March 22, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a lifelong resident of Rhode Island, I have always been interested in our colorful history. The stories in this book bring the reader into dark corners of the ocean state, that most history books don't dare to mention. Mr. D'Agostino has written an incredibly compelling book that not only aims to entertain, but also to challenge the reader. By not only re-writing famous ghost stories but sharing his own experiences with these stories, D'Agostino encourages the readers to investigate the legends for themselves and come up with their own conclusions. By doing so, he has certainly set the bar higher for other authors of this genre. I certainly look forward to any other books Mr. D'Agostino has up his sleeve!
Supernatural at its best March 19, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
An excellent book about the haunted happeneings in RI. Once I picked it up I could not put it down. Look forward to more!
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