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The Ultimate Guide to Haunting

Autor: Pasquale De Marco

Número de Páginas: 184

**The Ultimate Guide to Haunting** is the ultimate guide to the world of haunted places. In this book, you will learn about the different types of haunts, the causes of haunting, and the effects of haunting. You will also find tips on how to protect yourself from haunting and how to cleanse a haunted place. Whether you are a believer in ghosts or not, this book is sure to fascinate and entertain you. So sit back, relax, and prepare to be spooked! **Inside, you'll find:** * The different types of haunted places * The causes of haunting * The effects of haunting * How to protect yourself from haunting * How to cleanse a haunted place * And much more! **The Ultimate Guide to Haunting** is the perfect book for anyone who is interested in the paranormal. Whether you are a skeptic or a believer, this book will provide you with a wealth of information about the world of haunted places. So what are you waiting for? Order your copy of **The Ultimate Guide to Haunting** today! **The Ultimate Guide to Haunting** is written by Pasquale De Marco, a leading expert on the paranormal. Pasquale De Marco has investigated hundreds of haunted places and has written extensively on the subject. In this ...

Haunting Modernisms

Autor: Matt Foley

Número de Páginas: 225

This book is about haunting in modernist literature. Offering an extended and textually-sensitive reading of modernist spectrality that has yet to be undertaken by scholars of either haunting or modernism, it provides a fresh reconceptualization of modernist haunting by synthesizing recent critical work in the fields of haunting studies, Gothic modernisms, and mourning modernisms. The chapters read the form and function of the ghostly as it appears in the work of a constellation of important modernist contributors, including T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Bowen, Wyndham Lewis, Richard Aldington, and Ford Madox Ford. It is of particular significance to scholars and students in a wide range of fields of study, including modernism, literary theory, and the Gothic.

Haunting Legacy

Autor: Marvin Kalb , Deborah Kalb

Número de Páginas: 371

The United States had never lost a war—that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a "raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country." The legacy of this first defeat has haunted every president since, especially on the decision of whether to put "boots on the ground" and commit troops to war. In Haunting Legacy, the father-daughter journalist team of Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb presents a compelling, accessible, and hugely important history of presidential decisionmaking on one crucial issue: in light of the Vietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war? The sobering lesson of Vietnam is that the United States is not invincible—it can lose a war—and thus it must be more discriminating about the use of American power. Every president has faced the ghosts of Vietnam in his own way, though each has been wary of being sucked into another unpopular war. Ford (during the Mayaguez crisis) and both Bushes (Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan) deployed massive force, as if to say, "Vietnam, be damned." On the other hand, Carter, Clinton, and Reagan (to the surprise of many) acted with extreme...

Haunting Biology

Autor: Emma Kowal

Número de Páginas: 163

In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, bones, hair, comparative anatomy, human biology, physiology, and anthropological genetics all haunt each other across time and space, together with the many racial theories they produced and sustained. The stories Kowal tells feature a variety of ghostly presences: a dead anatomist, a fetishized piece of hair hidden away in a war trunk, and an elusive white Indigenous person. By linking this history to contemporary genomics and twenty-first-century Indigeneity, Kowal outlines the fraught complexities, perils, and potentials of studying Indigenous biological difference in the twenty-first century.

A German Haunting

Autor: Boris Creemers

Número de Páginas: 134

The author looks back at a total of thirty years of haunting experience and intimately describes the phenomena he witnessed over a long span of time. The obstinacy as well as the endurance of the haunting case makes it incredibly unique and allows the reader to get a better insight into the unbelievable and intimidating world of a haunting victim. Those affected, may use this book as a useful tool due to the fact that it shows that they are not alone with their seemingly ungraspable problems. It opens up new perspectives in dealing with certain haunting appearances. When the supernatural becomes a part of everyday life.

The Haunting of Wyatt House

Autor: Mo Raven

Número de Páginas: 108

Jodie Wyatt is missing. Nick, her husband and a police detective, is convinced that her disappearance is payback from a criminal he’s put away. His son Josh knows differently. He has always been able to see and hear those on the other side, and he is certain that a malevolent spirit inhabits Wyatt House. But how can he convince his father? Josh finds an ally in his grandfather, Richard, and the two of them seek help from Katie Dyer, a paranormal investigator. Bit by bit, Katie and Josh work to put together the pieces of the puzzle—while Jodie’s husband Nick stubbornly follows police procedure. Meanwhile, at Wyatt House, the threat increases hour by hour. It’s a race against time to find Jodie, battling an invisible enemy all the way.

The Haunting of Moreton Manor

Autor: Mo Raven

Número de Páginas: 105

It started as a joke: a couple of backpackers upload a YouTube video about their stay in a supposedly haunted house… But then, things turn bad. Dylan Lee, with a major in film, is documenting his backpacking holiday with his friend Amy in a series of YouTube videos. Their trip is fairly uneventful, and only a handful of friends are following their adventures… until their car breaks down and they accept an offer of a few week’s accommodation in an old gamekeeper’s cottage in the grounds of Moreton Manor. Dylan suggests that they do a tour of the decrepit old cottage and ham up the suspense for YouTube. They upload it and go to sleep…only to be woken in the night by an unearthly scream. It’s probably a fox, Amy tells viewers. But when someone spots a strange column of light picked up by the camera, their friends share the video… and it goes viral. Warnings to leave pepper the comments from locals, but others gleefully urge them to stay. As the days go on, and the ghost becomes more vengeful, Amy’s fear grows. She wants to leave, but with millions of eyes on his nightly YouTube updates, Dylan is certain that this will make his career. He’s staying, no matter what.

The Haunting of Knott Cottage

Autor: Mo Raven

Número de Páginas: 104

A picturesque but dilapidated cottage. Centuries of ownership by a family of doctors with a chequered past A little girl who is too scared to come to lessons in a converted stable… What secrets does Knott Cottage hold? Carla Sinclair, a divorcee and keen historian, jumps at the chance to sell her soulless modern home and buy Knott cottage. It will be perfect, she thinks, for someone like her with a fascination for the past—and the converted stable is just right for her music studio. But Carla is not in the cottage for more than a day when things start going wrong. Someone—or something—seems to be averse to her delving into the past. Or is it someone trying to get her attention? Carla changes the locks and confides in her friend Diana, but things just continue to get worse. When one of her students is too terrified to return to her lessons, Carla knows something must be done. But what? How can she stop the interference in her life from a force she can’t see? Determined not to give in, Carla keeps digging…

The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations

Autor: Jessica Auchter

Número de Páginas: 191

International Relations has traditionally focused on conflict and war, but the effects of violence including dead bodies and memorialization practices have largely been considered beyond the purview of the field. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology to consider the politics of life and death, Auchter traces the story of how life and death and a clear division between the two is summoned in the project of statecraft. She argues that by letting ourselves be haunted, or looking for ghosts, it is possible to trace how statecraft relies on the construction of such a dichotomy. Three empirical cases offer fertile ground for complicating the picture often painted of memorialization: Rwandan genocide memorials, the underexplored case of undocumented immigrants who die crossing the US-Mexico border, and the body/ruins nexus in 9/11 memorialization. Focusing on the role of dead bodies and the construction of particular spaces as the appropriate sites for memory to be situated, it offers an alternative take on the new materialisms movement in international relations by asking after the questions that arise from an ethnographic approach to the subject: viewing things from the...

Social Haunting, Education, and the Working Class

Autor: Kat Simpson

Número de Páginas: 129

Based on a critical Marxist ethnography, conducted at a state primary school in a former coalmining community in the north of England, this book provides insight into teachers’ perceptions of the effects of deindustrialisation on education for the working class. The book draws on the notion of social haunting to help understand the complex ways in which historical relations and performances, reflective of the community’s industrial past, continue to shape experiences and processes of schooling. The arguments presented enable us to engage with the ‘goodness’ of the past as well as the pain and suffering associated with deindustrialisation. This, it is argued, enables teachers and pupils to engage with rhythms, relations, and performances that recognise the heritage and complexities of working-class culture. Reckoning and harnessing with the fullness of ghosts is essential if schooling is to be refashioned in more encouraging and relational ways, with and for the working class. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in the sociology of education, and social class and education in particular. Those interested in schooling, ethnography,...

Haunting the Knowledge Economy

Autor: Jane Kenway , Elizabeth Bullen , Johannah Fahey , Simon Robb

Número de Páginas: 161

This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these accessible. But it does much more. It provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and those marginalized economies that haunt it: the risk, gift, libidinal and survival economies. These illuminate the knowledge economy's shortcomings and point to alternative possible systems of exchange and sets of values. This multi-disciplinary study takes the knowledge economy out of the hands of the economists and brings it into creative tension with the ideas of key thinkers from sociology, anthropology, philosophy and ecology. Illustrating the benefits of conversing with the ghosts of alternative economies, this provocative book will unsettle the way in which the knowledge economy is understood. Groundbreaking and globally applicable, it has been authored by internationally respected authors and its conceptual breadth pertains to a range of disciplines and gives it its wide appeal.

The Smurl Family Haunting

Autor: Patrick Gunn

Número de Páginas: 150

Uncover one of the most chilling and controversial paranormal cases of the 20th century. In The Smurl Family Haunting, journey deep into the heart of a true-life nightmare that gripped a quiet Pennsylvania town and captivated a nation. When Jack and Janet Smurl moved their family into what seemed like a modest duplex in West Pittston in 1974, they had no idea their dream home would become the site of horrifying supernatural phenomena—foul odors, disembodied voices, levitations, and even physical assaults. As the terrifying encounters escalated, the Smurls turned to priests, psychologists, and famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren for help. What followed was a harrowing battle between faith, fear, and the unknown, with an exorcism at its center and a media frenzy that would shape public perception of hauntings for decades. Drawing on historical records, psychological insights, and firsthand accounts, this book provides a comprehensive exploration of the case, while examining its cultural impact and comparisons to other infamous hauntings like Amityville and the Enfield Poltergeist. Whether you’re a skeptic or a believer, The Smurl Family Haunting will leave you...

Transgenerational Haunting in Psychoanalysis

Autor: Maurice Apprey

Número de Páginas: 214

In this book, Maurice Apprey continues his unique work on transgenerational haunting to explore how events in our ancestors' lives may be renegotiated and re-subjectivized in the present from within the therapeutic dyad. With an informed and impassioned voice that evokes the tragic psychic consequences of the unresolved, silenced tragedies and transgressions that haunt subsequent generations, Apprey illustrates how the analyst can unfold a patient's transference wishes and emancipate them from the unconscious projects, or errands, they have inherited. This can happen through a threefold process of excavating the unconscious sedimentations of ancestral history, appropriating and reactivating the ancestral errands within the transference, and subsequently decoding the patient's transference pressures. Expanding on Apprey's work about the analyst's field of inquiry and ways of listening in clinical practice, this book illuminates the potential for a resolution, rather than a re-enactment, of the traumas that can haunt a family system across generations. Attending to the manifestation of transgenerational trauma through varied clinical material, and informed by the thinking of Sigmund ...

The Bell Witch Haunting (1817-1821)

Autor: Patrick Gunn

Número de Páginas: 141

Uncover the chilling truth behind one of America's most enduring supernatural legends. The Bell Witch Haunting (1817–1821) is a meticulously researched and thought-provoking exploration of the mysterious events that plagued the Bell family of Adams, Tennessee, in the early 19th century. Drawing from historical documentation, folklore, gender dynamics, and psychological theory, this book offers a fresh and compelling perspective on the infamous Bell Witch legend. Why did this haunting grip a nation? Who was the spirit that tormented the Bell family? And what deeper truths about early American society does this legend reveal? Inside you'll discover: A detailed account of the haunting and its historical context Primary source insights, including eyewitness testimonies and newspaper clippings Psychological and sociological interpretations of fear, hysteria, and collective trauma The crucial role of women—both as victims and powerful figures—in shaping the legend How the Bell Witch influenced American ghost stories, spiritualism, and popular culture Whether you're a fan of paranormal history, folklore studies, or gender and cultural analysis, this book is your essential guide to...

The Enfield Poltergeist: A Haunting in London

Autor: Shelia Haney

Número de Páginas: 103

The Enfield Poltergeist, a haunting that sent shockwaves through London, is meticulously documented in this gripping account. The book takes you on a spine-tingling journey into the Hodgson family's ordeal, as their home became a stage for inexplicable supernatural phenomena. With detailed analysis of recorded EVPs, photographic evidence, and scientific investigations, the book explores the complexities and controversies surrounding the case. It delves into the psychological theories, cultural influences, and debates that have shaped our understanding of this enigmatic event. Whether you're a seasoned paranormal enthusiast or simply intrigued by the mysteries that lie beyond our current knowledge, The Enfield Poltergeist offers an immersive and thought-provoking exploration of a case that continues to fascinate and challenge our perceptions of reality.

Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall

Autor: Roger C. Aden

Número de Páginas: 245

Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes by virtue of their ephemeral or displaced presence. Rather than being discretely contained within a formal sites, these memories remain public by lingering along the edges and within the crevices of commemorative landscapes. By integrating theories of haunting, place, and public memory, this collection demonstrates that the National Mall, often referred to as “the nation’s front yard,” might better be understood as “the nation’s attic” because it hides those issues we do not want to address but cannot dismiss. The neatly ordered installations and landscaping of the National Mall, if one looks and listens closely, reveal the messiness of US history. From the ephemeral memories of protests on the Mall to the displaced but persistent presences of inequality, each chapter in this book examines the ways in which contemporary public life in the US is haunted by incomplete...

The Haunting of Borley Rectory

Autor: Sean O'connor

Número de Páginas: 351

Marianne Foyster, Harry Price and the most haunted house in England - the perfect read for Halloween. In 1928, Eric and Mabel Smith took over a lonely parish on the northern border of Essex. When they moved into Borley Rectory, Mrs Smith made a gruesome discovery in a cupboard: a human skull.Soon the house was electric with ghosts. Within the year, the Smiths had abandoned it and the Rectory became notorious as the ‘most haunted house in England’. When Reverend Lionel Foyster moved in he experienced a further explosion of poltergeist activity with an increasing violence directed at his attractive young wife. Marianne was a passionate and sensuous woman isolated in a village haunted by ancient superstition and deep-rooted prejudice. She would be accused not only of faking the ghosts but of adultery, bigamy ... and even murder. The haunting, sensationally reported in the tabloid press, gripped the nation. It was investigated by Harry Price, a self-made ‘psychic detective’. This was the case that would make Price’s name as the most celebrated ghost-hunter of the age. He recorded the evidence of 200 witnesses to over 2,000 supernatural incidents. This surely confirmed that...

The Haunting of Maddy Clare

Autor: Simone St. James

Número de Páginas: 337

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel. 1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis—rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I—has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide. Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to confront an angry ghost—real or imagined—on her own. She’s even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair’s associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach. Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy’s ghost is no hoax—she’s real, she’s angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Now, Sarah and Matthew must discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance—before she destroys them all....

Poveglia Island: The Haunting History of Venice's Forbidden Island

Autor: Benita Bowers

Número de Páginas: 82

Attention! Are you fascinated by the realm of the unknown? Step into the captivating world of Poveglia Island, the forbidden island of Venice shrouded in haunting history. From its ancient origins to the chilling tales of paranormal activity that permeate its abandoned asylum, this book unveils the secrets of a place where the line between reality and the supernatural blurs. As you delve deeper into the island's enigmatic past, you'll encounter the grim conditions endured during the Black Death, the controversial experiments conducted on helpless patients, and the mysterious fire that consumed the asylum in 1968. Prepare to be captivated by firsthand accounts of ghostly apparitions, disembodied voices, and unexplained phenomena. Experience the thrill of modern exploration, where paranormal enthusiasts seek answers to the island's enigmatic reputation. Don't miss this opportunity to embark on a journey that will leave you haunted long after you turn the final page.

The Haunting Horror Murders

Autor: Pasquale De Marco

Número de Páginas: 159

In the quaint town of Willow Creek, where secrets whisper in the shadows, a series of gruesome murders sends shockwaves through the community. When a young woman's lifeless body is discovered in a desolate alleyway, Detective Alex Ramsey is called upon to investigate the haunting horror that has gripped the town. As Alex delves deeper into the investigation, he uncovers a web of deceit, forbidden desires, and long-buried secrets that threaten to tear the town apart. With each new victim, the killer's motive becomes more elusive, leaving Alex and his team struggling to stay one step ahead of a cunning and merciless adversary. As the body count rises, so does the tension in Willow Creek. Fear and paranoia spread like wildfire, pitting neighbor against neighbor. The clock is ticking, and Alex finds himself in a race against time to unmask the killer before more innocent lives are lost. In a chilling exploration of the human psyche, The Haunting Horror Murders takes readers on a twisted journey into the dark recesses of the human mind. Through a series of in-depth case studies, the book delves into the motivations and behaviors of both victims and perpetrators, shedding light on the...

The Amityville Horror: Haunting Or Hoax? Examining The Controversial Case

Autor: Anonymous

Número de Páginas: 67

The Amityville Horror: Haunting Or Hoax? explores the controversial case of the Amityville haunting, focusing on the experiences of the Lutz family who moved into a seemingly haunted house. The book delves into the strange occurrences they encountered, including supernatural phenomena, terrifying nightmares, and what they believe to be poltergeist activity and demonic possession. Chapter by chapter, the book examines various aspects of the case, investigating the house, consulting psychics and paranormal experts, and exploring alternative explanations for the occurrences. It also highlights the media frenzy surrounding the case, the impact on popular culture, and the ongoing debates about the reality of the haunting. Additionally, the book delves into the Amityville curse, unexplained phenomena, psychic connections, and the influence of the occult. With witness testimonies, crime scene photos, EVP recordings and more, the book aims to uncover the truth behind the Amityville horror and its lasting effects on the Lutz family and their legacy.

A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House"

Autor: Gale, Cengage Learning

Número de Páginas: 38

A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Shadows of the North: Haunting Tales from the Heart of the Adirondacks

Autor: Pasquale De Marco

Número de Páginas: 143

**Shadows of the North: Haunting Tales from the Heart of the Adirondacks takes readers on a spine-tingling journey into the haunted heart of the Adirondacks.** From the shores of Lake Placid to the summit of Whiteface Mountain, the North Country is steeped in a rich history of the paranormal. This book uncovers the dark secrets and chilling tales that have captivated locals and visitors alike for centuries. **Within these pages, you'll encounter:** * The restless spirits that haunt the grand hotels and historic inns of the Adirondacks * The unexplained phenomena that occur in the remote wilderness and along the desolate roads * The eerie encounters with shadowy figures and unknown creatures that defy explanation **Shadows of the North: Haunting Tales from the Heart of the Adirondacks is a collection of haunting tales that will keep you on the edge of your seat.** Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, these stories will challenge your perceptions and leave you wondering what lurks just beyond the edge of reality. **So gather around the campfire, dim the lights, and prepare to be transported to a world where the unknown awaits.** Shadows of the North: Haunting Tales from the Heart ...

Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture

Autor: Julian Wolfreys

Número de Páginas: 261

Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach grounded in close reading, the text places Jacques Derrida’s work on spectrality in dialogue with particular aspects of phenomenology. The volume explores writing and culture from the 1880s to the present day, proceeding through four sections examining related questions of identity, memory, the landscape, and our modern relationship to the past. Julian Wolfreys presents a theoretically informed understanding of the efficacy of literature and culture in connecting us to the past in an affective and engaged manner.

Haunting Ecologies

Autor: Ursula Kluwick

Número de Páginas: 273

Victorians’ views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people’s daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well as on conceptualizations of gender roles. Drawing on the methodology of material ecocriticism, Ursula Kluwick’s Haunting Ecologies argues that Victorian Britons were keenly aware of aquatic agency, recognizing water as an active force with the ability to infiltrate bodies and spaces. Kluwick reads works by canonical writers such as Braddon, Dickens, Stoker, and George Eliot alongside sanitary reform discourse, court cases, journalistic articles, satirical cartoons, technical drawings, paintings, and maps. This wide-ranging study sheds new light on Victorian-era anxieties about water contamination as well as on how certain wet landscapes such as sewers, rivers, and marshes became associated with moral corruption and crime. Applying ideas from the field of blue humanities to nineteenth-century texts, Haunting Ecologies argues for the relevance of realism as an Anthropocene form.

Haunting Inquiry

Autor: Robert Nellis

Número de Páginas: 173

The NFB’s mandate is “[t]o make and distribute films designed to help Canadians in all parts of Canada to understand the ways of living and the problems of Canadians in other parts.” NFB Founding Commissioner John Grierson "It’s only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted. " Canadian poet Earle Birney Haunting Inquiry: Classic NFB Documentary, Jacques Derrida, and the Curricular Otherwise reintroduces significant, if sometimes forgotten, National Film Board of Canada documentaries into contemporary curriculum conversation. Author Robert Christopher Nellis employs an inflection of Derridean deconstruction to mobilize historical, political, and intellectual themes emerging from the films as elliptical, curricular opportunities. The work explores hauntings in and around the documentaries to open toward Others neither fully present nor absent within the Canadian imagination. They remain troublingly illicit, as is the character of haunting... This book’s contribution to the literature of curriculum is a unique and innovative conceptual framework, reintroduction of many classic NFB documentaries, and the use of a productive language and outlook to mobilize fresh perspectives and...

Haunting Futures

Autor: Marek Pawlak

Número de Páginas: 175

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Polish migrant community in their midst alert to looming futures in crisis. It offers insights into timely crisis-ridden impacts and imaginings, migration processes and social understandings and practices. Through its attention to how people engage with crisis temporally and affectively, the book presents the crisis not simply as an isolated and distressing event but as a spectre embodied in time through ongoing anticipation.

Haunting Prison

Autor: Tea Fredriksson

Número de Páginas: 185

Through a study of ten commercially published prison autobiographies, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution unveils how prison is narrativized and socially represented as an abject and uncanny institution, shedding new light on what prison is and does in Western carceral imaginations.

Haunting Experiences

Autor: Diane Goldstein , Sylvia Grider , Jeannie Banks Thomas

Número de Páginas: 325

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new...

Haunting Embrace

Autor: Erin Quinn

Número de Páginas: 302

New in the breathtaking series of sorcery, Irish lore, time travel, and exquisite romance. Within Meaghan Ballagh surges the blood of a sorceress whose ancient love for a druid ended in treachery. When Meaghan is thrust into the past, she feels the desire between the sorceress and the handsome druid once again rise inside her. To survive, she must piece together the history of the woman who haunts her and the man who needs her.

Haunting Shadows

Autor: Mo Raven

Número de Páginas: 454

Five houses, haunted by shadows from the past. Unsuspecting victims, battling with events that have no rational explanation. A race against time to unravel dark secrets and confront vengeful spirits… In these five stories of haunted houses and restless ghosts, everyday heroes dig deep to find the strength and courage to face the past, for the sake of a better future. THE HAUNTING OF TRUSCOTT HOUSE A house with a dark secret. A grieving daughter determined to carry out her parents’ last wishes. A grandmother with something to hide… Chloe Thomas brushes aside her grandmother’s pleas that she stay away from Truscott House, and moves in with her friend Emily to finish the project her parents had begun before their death—the renovation of a property that had been in the family for a century. It isn’t long before Chloe has to admit that something doesn’t seem want them there—but who? Or what? And why? THE HAUNTING OF ARMITAGE HOUSE Little Isabella Burnside is fading away, and no matter how many specialists her mother takes her to, they can’t pinpoint the problem. Her twin brother, Jack—once open and gregarious—can now barely communicate. Isabella’s father,...

The Haunting of Cassie Palmer

Autor: Vivien Alcock

Número de Páginas: 196

Thirteen-year-old Cassie, the seventh child of a seventh child, begins to exhibit the gift of second sight which enables her to communicate with the Other World.

Haunting Ruins

Autor: Chiara Calzana , Valentina Gamberi

Número de Páginas: 210

Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present. Conjuring environmental humanities, the anthropology of history, memory and archaeology, this book delves into the complex influence of the past on the present and the future and urges scholars to consider ruins as things to think with.

Haunting Violations

Autor: Wendy Hesford , Wendy Kozol

Número de Páginas: 316

Feminist critics place a premium on the "real" stories told by the victimized and the oppressed. Haunting Violations offers a corrective to such uncritical acceptance of the "real" in confessional, testimonial, and ethnographic narratives. Through close readings of a wide variety of texts, contributors argue that depictions of the "real" are inherently performative, crafted within the limits and in the interests of specific personal, political, or social projects. Haunting Violations explores the inseparability of discourse and politics in quasi-autobiographical works such as I, Rigoberta Menchú and When Heaven and Earth Changed Places. Contributors consider how the Sri Lankan Mother's Front movement exploits the sanctity of the maternal and how multiple political purposes on both sides bleed through government "documentary" photographs of Japanese-American concentration camp internees. This volume also investigates how South Asian feminists use the authority of their personal experience to critique the film Mississippi Masala and how realist narratives, such as Janet Campbell Hale's autobiographical Bloodlines, Margie Strosser's documentary film Rape Stories, and Shekur Kapur's...

Haunting Danielle, Books 1 - 4

Autor: Bobbi Holmes , Anna J. Mcintyer

Número de Páginas: 1635

When Danielle Boatman inherits Marlow House, she dreams of turning it into a seaside bed and breakfast. Since she’s never visited the property, Danielle’s not sure what awaits her in Oregon. She certainly doesn’t expect to find one of the house’s previous owners still in residence. After all, the man has been dead for almost ninety years—shouldn’t he have moved on by now? Bundle of Books 1-4 of the Haunting Danielle Series 1. The Ghost of Marlow House 2. The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds 3. The Ghost Who Wasn't 4. The Ghost Who Wanted Revenge

Haunting : fantastic stories

Autor: Vernon Lee

Número de Páginas: 264

A Haunting Smile

Autor: Christopher Moore

Número de Páginas: 358

The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Autor: Jacqueline Rose

Número de Páginas: 312

Since her death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon--an object of intense speculation, of fantasy, repulsion, and desire. Few twentieth-century Western writers have inspired such a range of deeply felt responses: not even her tombstone is allowed to rest in peace. Admirers exalt Plath as a priestess of high art in a degenerate culture, or see her work as an indictment of patriarchal society, as she painfully experienced it in her relationships with her family, her analysts, and her husband, poet Ted Hughes. Detractors, however, see Plath as a seductive, destructive death figure whose solipsistic, negative rantings offend conventional mores and values. In both popular and scholarly circles, there seem to be no middle ground. Jacqueline Rose stands back from the debates, and looks instead at the swirl of controversy, recognizing it as a phenomenon in itself--one with much to tell us about how a culture selects and judges writers; how we hear women's voices; and how we receive messages from, to, and about our unconscious selves. Rose frees Plath from the rigid opposition between psychoanalytic and feminist agendas and offers a new way of understanding ...

The Haunting of Low Fennel

Autor: Sax Rohmer

Número de Páginas: 258

"There's Low Fennel," said Major Dale. We pulled up short on the brow of the hill. Before me lay a little valley carpeted with heather, purple slopes hemming it in. A group of four tall firs guarded the house, which was couched in the hollow of the dip-a low, rambling building, in parts showing evidence of great age and in other parts of the modern improver. "That's the new wing," continued the Major, raising his stick; "projecting out this way. It's the only addition I've made to the house, which, as it stood, had insufficient accommodation for the servants." "It is a quaint old place." "It is, and I'm loath to part with it, especially as it means a big loss." "Ah! Have you formed any theories since wiring me?" "None whatever. I've always been a sceptic, Addison, but if Low Fennel is not haunted, I'm a Dutchman, by the Lord Harry!"