Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Local Non-Fiction, Mind, Body & Spirit, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9780143529323
Published: October 2012
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Format: e-Book
RRP 150.00

Ghost That Closed Down The Town

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Arthur Goldstuck made the world of South African urban legends his own with four best-sellers during the 1990s. Now he returns to this landscape, but from a very different angle: looking at the extent to which ghost stories are really urban legends - stories spread by word of mouth (and the media) as absolute truth, but falling short on evidence and reality. In exploring ghost stories as urban legends, Goldstuck makes a fascinating discovery: the ghostly beliefs of each culture across South Africa have had a profound impact on the supernatural beliefs of every other cultural group in the country over the past four centuries. The result is the story of the South African ghost: a unique and complex character that reflects a turbulent history and a harsh existence and sheds a...

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Arthur Goldstuck

Arthur Goldstuck

In addition to his four best-sellers on South African urban legends, all published by Penguin, Arthur Goldstuck is the author of the best-selling The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Internet and the current guide to mobile technologies, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Going Wireless. An award-winning writer, he started out as a journalist, worked as editor of a variety of magazines, and was also news editor of The Weekly Mail and South African correspondent for Billboard. He has been a freelance writer for numerous local and international publications, from Cosmopolitan to The Times of London. A well-known commentator on trends and possibilities of technology, he presently heads up World Wide Worx, providing market research and strategy in the use of technology. Arthur’s book The Ghost That Closed Down the Town (Penguin, 2006), was selected for Publishers’ Choice. In October 2010 Arthur published his lastest book Burglar in the Bin Bag. Follow Arthur on Twitter. http://www.gadget.co.za

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