asylums

Fifteen-year-old Cal continues to survive the 365 day countdown as a fugitive, enduring all kinds of perils, including having his identity stripped and being locked up in an asylum.

Contains unabridged editions of two memorials presented to the Illinois legislature in 1846-47 by humanitarian and reformer Dorothea Dix, in which she pleaded her case for the humane care and effective treatment of the mentally ill in Illinois; and includes a selection of newspaper articles she wrote detailing conditions in the jails and poorhouses of Illinois communities.

During the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy, the wife of a wealthy plantation owner, is tried and convicted of madness after her willful disagreement with him over political issues, and she is sent to Sanibel Asylum on a remote Florida island where she and other prisoners are abused, but after finding love with Ambrose, a former Confederate soldier and fellow inmate, Iris must find a way for them to escape.

The slam of the wrecking ball into the stone walls of Blackstone's old insane asylum unleashes a terrible evil on the New England town that makes itself known in a series of strange gifts that fall into the hands of some of the town's finest citizens.

Describes the terrible conditions in which patients lived at eleven now-defunct mental hospitals around the world, and presents details on reported hauntings at these facilities.

When twelve-year-old Joy's pet frog gets away, she, her brother, and their elusive friend Poppy sneak onto the grounds of the town's asylum and discover mysteries that only reinforce Joy's beliefs that there are supernatural forces at work in the town of Spooking.

Fifteen-year-old Cal continues to survive the 365 day countdown as a fugitive, enduring all kinds of perils, including having his identity stripped and being locked up in an asylum.