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1) The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
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"In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler, took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of lost loved ones alongside his living subjects. At a time when artists like Mathew Brady were remaking American culture with their cameras, Mumler was a sensation: the affluent and influential came calling, including Mary Todd Lincoln....
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Boston, 1870. Photographer Edward Moody runs a booming business capturing the images of the spirits of the departed in his portraits. He lures grieving widows and mourning mothers into his studio with promises of catching the ghosts of their deceased loved ones with his camera. Despite the whispers around town that Moody is a fraud of the basest kind, no one has been able to expose him, and word of his gift has spread, earning him money, fame, and...
3) Shutter
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English
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Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat -- a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum and uses an SLR camera to fight against spirit monsters. When a routine ghost hunt goes awry, Micheline and her crew of boys are infected with a curse known as a soulchain. Pursued as a renegade agent by her monster-hunting father, Leonard Helsing, she must track down and destroy the entity responsible for the soul chain -- or she and her friends...
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Katie and Micah are a young middle class couple who are engaged to be married. After moving into a suburban 'starter' house in San Diego, California, they begin hearing noises while trying to sleep. Not knowing if the presence is demonic or not, they attempt communicating through a Ouija board, angering the spirit further. Now they may never sleep again, or they may never wake up!
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2013.
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Español
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Second Sight takes readers into the simmering passions and paranormal secrets of the Victorian age. Venetia Milton earns big bucks photographing the artifacts owned by the brooding Gabriel Jones, whom she also manages to seduce, but after hearing that he is dead, she is stunned when he winds up on her doorstep very much alive and afraid for his life.
8) Click
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Hindi
Description
They say that pictures always tell a story. This story is of a young photographer and his girlfriend. He takes beautiful pictures and yet when they're printed they hide a secret; a secret that is so dark, terrifying and menacing that he hides it from his girlfriend. A secret from his past that if revealed, threatens to ruin not only his life but that of his family, friends and loved ones. A secret that comes from a world that's different from ours....
10) Post mortem
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
In the aftermath of a near-death experience in the final days of the First World War, former soldier Tomás has become a photographer with a particular—and peculiar—expertise. Presenting the bereaved an opportunity for one final, indelible memory of their dead loved ones, Tomás creates family photos in which the living and the dead are posed together. Haunted by a vision of an orphaned girl, Tomás is drawn to a disease-stricken village claimed...
11) Shutter
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job opportunity - a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they are involved in a tragic car accident, leaving a young local girl dead. When they regain consciousness, they find no trace of the girl's body. A bit distraught, the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin their new life. Meanwhile Ben begins noticing strange white blurs in many of his photographs. Jane believes...
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