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Haunted plays in Reykjavík. Compiled by Steinar Bragi. Photographs by Jóhann Páll Valdimarsson. Drawings by Sunna Sigurðardóttir.
Did you know that in the Alþingi there is an attic that stands empty except for one marten that sucks up happiness? Did you know that in the Tjörninn there is a litter that in the late evenings cries for its mother in the cemetery and resembles a raven with broken wings? Have you stayed in the black rooms at Hotel Borg? And do you know what is behind the church in Landakot?
When Icelanders left the countryside, they took their ghosts with them, and also the need to tame them with stories. The harsh weather, natural disasters, poverty, and isolation have long been fertile ground for all kinds of evil, untimely death – and lost souls.
Based on in-depth interviews with living and, in some cases, deceased Icelanders, Hauntings in Reykjavík presents for the first time some of Reykjavík's most notorious ghost stories of recent times, mixed with historical information about the city.
Steinar Bragi wrote the text of the book, but he and Rakel Garðarsdóttir conducted dozens of interviews with people in the town in search of the best, most unknown and most horrifying ghost stories in the city center. Jóhann Páll Valdimarsson took pictures for the book, and the drawings in it are by Sunna Sigurðardóttir.
Did you know that in the Alþingi there is an attic that stands empty except for one marten that sucks up happiness? Did you know that in the Tjörninn there is a litter that in the late evenings cries for its mother in the cemetery and resembles a raven with broken wings? Have you stayed in the black rooms at Hotel Borg? And do you know what is behind the church in Landakot?
When Icelanders left the countryside, they took their ghosts with them, and also the need to tame them with stories. The harsh weather, natural disasters, poverty, and isolation have long been fertile ground for all kinds of evil, untimely death – and lost souls.
Based on in-depth interviews with living and, in some cases, deceased Icelanders, Hauntings in Reykjavík presents for the first time some of Reykjavík's most notorious ghost stories of recent times, mixed with historical information about the city.
Steinar Bragi wrote the text of the book, but he and Rakel Garðarsdóttir conducted dozens of interviews with people in the town in search of the best, most unknown and most horrifying ghost stories in the city center. Jóhann Páll Valdimarsson took pictures for the book, and the drawings in it are by Sunna Sigurðardóttir.