Hollywood Haunted: A Ghostly Tour of Filmland

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Summary: Excellent! I visited the places myself!
Review: As a non believer in the paranromal, I was doubtful when I began "Hollywood Haunted." After reading it in one night, I visited most of the sites, checked the research, and was convinced! I had personal knowledge of some of the events described, and, as the owner of Grave Line Tours, I recommend it to whoever requests accurate information about the "nether-world" of Hollyweird! It's head and shoulders above anything else I've read on the subject. "I do believe in spooks. I do believe in spooks! I do- I do- I do!" This book made me!

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Summary: Ghosts of Hollywood
Review: Haunted Hollywood has been discussed and presented on cable network, E! And various other channels such as History Channel, A&E, Entertainment Tonight, Unsolved Mysteries and other entertainment news programs. There are many websites, which gives the reader plenty of information. This book contains limited information and falls short of satisfying real ghost enthusiasts. The author could have expanded to include more haunted stories and perhaps more details. The reader could invest his/her money on something else and read from websites.

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Summary: Ghosts of Hollywood
Review: Haunted Hollywood has been discussed and presented on cable network, E! And various other channels such as History Channel, A&E, Entertainment Tonight, Unsolved Mysteries and other entertainment news programs. There are many websites, which gives the reader plenty of information. This book contains limited information and falls short of satisfying real ghost enthusiasts. The author could have expanded to include more haunted stories and perhaps more details. The reader could invest his/her money on something else and read from websites.

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Summary: Ghosts, ghouls make a fun read
Review: Hollywood Haunted: A Ghostly Tour of Filmland by Laurie Jacobson and Marc Wanamaker is first rate in recounting ghostly tales of the bygone era of classic Hollywood. Jacobson and Wanamaker grasp the reader from the very first page and keep you on the edge of your seat right until the end! I felt as if I was with Jacobson behind the movie screen at Grauman's Chinese Theatre as she grippingly recounts her encounter with the Theatre's own supernatural guest. I highly recommend this book if you are a fan of classic Hollywood and great ghost stories.

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Summary: Please Make My Skin Crawl
Review: I bought this book when it first came out. Makes for a great read and kept me up for a few nights as I was reading away. Jacobson is an A-1 chronicler of the Hollywood ghost scene and has made me a believer after I visited some of these sites myself.

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Summary: Please Make My Skin Crawl
Review: I bought this book when it first came out. Makes for a great read and kept me up for a few nights as I was reading away. Jacobson is an A-1 chronicler of the Hollywood ghost scene and has made me a believer after I visited some of these sites myself.

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Summary: A book that doesn't reach its potential
Review: I was disappointed in this book mainly, because of the wealth of stories available, it is really just a light, frothy overview. There is so much more to tell, but Jacobson doesn't delve into the details of these ghostly events. It is mainly an overview, with pictures, almost a small guidebook. Since Jacobson is quoted so often in biographies and in television documentaries, I know that she has volumes of information she could share. Unfortunately, she does not share it here.

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Summary: Good for a bathroom book, but not much more substantial.
Review: My biggest problem with this is the lack of detail. It's a fluff piece, pure and simple. There are some intriguing ghost stories in here, like the ones about the Comedy Store, but not nearly enough of them and with not nearly enough historical detail or research. It is far from comprehensive, as many Hollywood ghost-stories I've read about on line are not even mentioned here. Granted, if a book were going to cover EVERY single ghost story from the history of Hollywood, it would be a thousand pages long, but many of the most prominent ones are not even mentioned here. I read this for pure entertainment, since I do not actually believe a single one of these ghost stories, but the chapters were far too skimpy to give me much satisfaction. Since the author has supposedly been collecting Hollywood ghost stories for 10 years, this book seems awful light on facts.

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Summary: Idiot's Delight
Review: My sister's high school library was discarding books, so she thought I might like this and brought it home. I soon found myself snorting with derision while flipping through it. If you believe the hauntings depicted here, you're either credulous in the extreme or just plain stupid. So, OK, I'm unsympathetic to the subject matter of this book. But even if I were a believer, I'd find this book substandard. The writing is unsophisticated, about on the level of what I was reading in the sixth grade. The content is cut-and-pasted from a handful of earlier books listed in the bibliography. The pictures are unsurprising, and poorly reproduced, with a blue sepia tone-like tint that is supposed to make them look appropriately spectral. Mostly, they lack contrast and fine detail. It saddens me that a book like this can stay in print for six years and garner the uncritical enthusiasm of the other reviewers here.

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Summary: A LIGHT, ENTERTAINING TOUR.
Review: This little book is a breezy read on some of the spectral happenings in Hollywood and it is loaded with nostalgic photos. One of the ghostly stories:Tracy Nelson (Rick's daughter) saw a man's apparition in her dad's Mulholland Drive Home once owned by Errol Flynn. One evening she heard sounds of a break-in followed by numerous loud crashing and smashing sounds in the room below. She hid in the closet till the noise stopped and then proceeded downstairs. The room looked untouched but all the lights were on and the pet cats were locked in Rick's bedroom from the inside! She moved out quickly. Also covered: the haunting of murdered actress Sharon Tate by suicide Paul Bern, Madonna's spooky Castillo Del Lago house, strange goings-on at Ciro's night spot and the Comedy Store, and several studios, theatres, hotels, and more. If you want a light, entertaining tour of Hollywood paranormal, this is a good choice.