Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World's Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago

by Ursula Bielski

Book Overview

At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467139653
• ISBN13: 9781467139656
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"