Echoes Of Ballard House

Author : E. Denise Billups
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798890089854

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Echoes of Ballard House by E. Denise Billups Pdf

Hidden secrets. Unearthed truths. Simone Doucet returns to uncover the sinister truth behind a series of murders within an opulent mansion in the heart of New Orleans' Garden District. Yearning to escape the confines of her New York City brownstone, Simone jumps at the opportunity to house-sit a gorgeous Queen Anne Victorian home in her cherished New Orleans Garden District. Upon her arrival, the walls whisper ancient voices, the owner’s parrot mimics an eerie nightly tune, and elusive footsteps echo through the floorboards. Simone quickly discovers she is not alone in this majestic house. Tackling the afterlife alone, Simone becomes entangled in the stories of three tormented souls caught in a web of greed, hatred, and infidelity. Their deadly secrets converge in a bone-chilling tale of murder. Yet, within the grandeur of Ballard House, Simone is far from alone. The peril she faces extends beyond the spectral world, and she will soon confront evil from both the living and the dead. What dark secret lies hidden within the walls of Ballard House?

Author : E. Denise Billups
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000396092

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Wicked Bleu by E. Denise Billups Pdf

Can a wrong be rectified in death? Eight months ago, Simone experienced her first spectral encounter. It awakened a dormant second sight and opened a chasm to the afterlife. Now, another spirit from 1917 New Orleans has wandered through that passage, haunting her with an intoxicating jasmine fragrance and wicked antics. To escape this mysterious ghost, Simone jumps at a seven-day complimentary Mardi Gras hotel package, unaware there might be an ancestral power behind her decision, an identity she grapples with. Is the ghost’s name Bleu? She’s a lady of the night who lived a dangerous life in the infamous Storyville. A place lined with mansion-like brothels on the edge of the French Quarter run by unscrupulous madams and frequented by dangerous criminals. WWI is on the horizon, jazz music is burgeoning, and Bleu’s life unravels. Visions of her past and horrific death beset Simone as she explores present-day New Orleans with her three roommates. But why are the images fragmented? Has Bleu forgotten what happened the stormy night she died? Can Simone uncover Bleu’s murderer and reunite her with her loved ones before it’s too late?

Author : Juliette C. Kitchens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781476667027

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At Home in the Whedonverse by Juliette C. Kitchens Pdf

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Joss Whedon's work presents various representations of home spaces that give depth to his stories and storytelling. Through the spaceship in Firefly, a farmhouse in Avengers: Age of Ultron or Whedon's own house in Much Ado About Nothing, his work collectively offers audiences the opportunity to question the ways we relate to and inhabit homes. Focusing on his television series, films and comics, this collection of new essays explores the diversity of home spaces in Whedon's many 'verses, and the complexity these spaces afford the narratives, characters, objects and relationships within them.

Author : E. Denise Billups
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000496983

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Simone Doucet Series - Books 1-3 by E. Denise Billups Pdf

The first three books in the Simone Doucet Series by E. Denise Billups, now available in one volume! Tainted Harvest: After travel writer Simone Doucet accepts an assignment that takes her to Magnolia Sunrise - a historical bed-and-breakfast in Natchez, Mississippi - strange events begin to take place. Frightful images of a young slave girl, Delphine, haunt her nights. Through spectral eyes, Simone sees the horrors she witnessed and was subjected to. Delphine wants everyone to know what happened to her, but why has she chosen Simone to tell her story? Wicked Bleu: Simone is heading to celebrate Mardi Gras, unaware there might be an ancestral power behind her decision. Soon, visions of Bleu, a lady of the night who lived a dangerous life in the infamous Storyville, fill Simone's mind. But why are the images fragmented, and can Simone uncover Bleu’s murderer and reunite her with her loved ones? Echoes of Ballard House: Yearning to escape the confines of her New York City brownstone, Simone jumps on the opportunity to house-sit a gorgeous Queen Anne Victorian home in her cherished New Orleans Garden District. But in this house, the walls whisper ancient voices and elusive footsteps echo through the floorboards. The peril Simone faces extends beyond the spectral world, and she will soon confront evil from both the living and the dead. What dark secret lies hidden within the walls of Ballard House?

Author : J. Baxter,R. Wymer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230346482

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J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions by J. Baxter,R. Wymer Pdf

Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology.

Author : Heather M. Porter,Michael Starr
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476645698

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Re-Entering the Dollhouse by Heather M. Porter,Michael Starr Pdf

Premiering on Fox in 2009, Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was an innovative, contentious and short-lived science fiction series whose themes were challenging for viewers from the outset. A vast global corporation operates establishments (Dollhouses) that program individuals with temporary personalities and abilities. The protagonist assumes a different identity each episode--her defining characteristic a lack of individuality. Through this obtuse premise, the show interrogated free will, morality and sex, and in the process its own construction of fantasy and its audience. A decade on, the world is--for better or worse--catching up with Dollhouse's provocative vision. This collection of new essays examines the series' relevance in the context of today's social and political issues and media landscape.

Author : E. Denise Billups
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000333271

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Kalorama Road by E. Denise Billups Pdf

Her memories died, but the dead won't let them sleep. There's something Allie can't remember. Lost memories refuse to surface until something triggers images of a blank night. A year after graduating from Emsworth University, Allie receives a mysterious email asking a single question. Do you remember what happened at 1414 Kalorama Road? Someone wants her to remember, and they are getting closer. As memories resurface, Allie must accept a sinister night and a discovery she could never have imagined. Will she remember before it's too late?

Author : Moses Foster Sweetser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : New Hampshire
ISBN : HARVARD:HNEBR8

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Southwestern New Hampshire by Moses Foster Sweetser Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Cambridge (Mass.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN72DH

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Blue Book of Cambridge for ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simon Sellars
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780995455092

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Applied Ballardianism by Simon Sellars Pdf

An existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global technological delirium is the norm. The mediascapes of late capitalism reconfigure erotic responses and trigger primal aggression; under constant surveillance, we occupy simulations of ourselves, private estates on a hyperconnected globe; fictions reprogram reality, memories are rewritten by the future… Fleeing the excesses of 1990s cyberculture, a young researcher sets out to systematically analyse the obsessively reiterated themes of a writer who prophesied the disorienting future we now inhabit. The story of his failure is as disturbingly psychotropic as those of his magus—J.G. Ballard, prophet of the post-postmodern, voluptuary of the car crash, surgeon of the pathological virtualities pulsing beneath the surface of reality. Plagued by obsessive fears, defeated by the tedium of academia, yet still certain that everything connects to Ballard, his academic thesis collapses into a series of delirious travelogues, deranged speculations and tormented meditations on time, memory, and loss. Abandoning literary interpretation and renouncing all scholarly distance, he finally accepts the deep assignment that has run throughout his entire life, and embarks on a rogue fieldwork project: Applied Ballardianism, a new discipline and a new ideal for living. Only the darkest impulses, the most morbid obsessions, and the most apocalyptic paranoia can uncover the technological mutations of inner space. An existential odyssey inextricably weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global technological delirium is the norm—a world become unmistakably Ballardian.

Author : Pauline Greenhill
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814339237

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Channeling Wonder by Pauline Greenhill Pdf

Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes, schools, and workplaces. Even apparently realistic forms, like the nightly news, routinely employ discourses of “once upon a time,” “happily ever after,” and “a Cinderella story.” In Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television, Pauline Greenhill and Jill Terry Rudy offer contributions that invite readers to consider what happens when fairy tale, a narrative genre that revels in variation, joins the flow of television experience. Looking in detail at programs from Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the U.S., this volume’s twenty-three international contributors demonstrate the wide range of fairy tales that make their way into televisual forms. The writers look at fairy-tale adaptations in musicals like Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, anthologies like Jim Henson’s The Storyteller, made-for-TV movies like Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Bluebeard, and the Red Riding Trilogy, and drama serials like Grimm and Once Upon a Time. Contributors also explore more unexpected representations in the Carosello commercial series, the children’s show Super Why!, the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena, and the live-action dramas Train Man and Rich Man Poor Woman. In addition, they consider how elements from familiar tales, including “Hansel and Gretel,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Snow White,” and “Cinderella” appear in the long arc serials Merlin, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Dollhouse, and in a range of television formats including variety shows, situation comedies, and reality TV. Channeling Wonder demonstrates that fairy tales remain ubiquitous on TV, allowing for variations but still resonating with the wonder tale’s familiarity. Scholars of cultural studies, fairy-tale studies, folklore, and television studies will enjoy this first-of-its-kind volume.

Author : Wade Wright
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781605430409

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Echo of Fear by Wade Wright Pdf

Author : Sherry Ginn,Alyson R. Buckman,Heather M. Porter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442233133

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Joss Whedon's Dollhouse by Sherry Ginn,Alyson R. Buckman,Heather M. Porter Pdf

This collection of essays contextualizes Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse as a postmodern investigation into what makes us human and as an examination of how technology invariably transforms our identity and perhaps even our humanity. Together, these essays provide a provocative meditation on how one example of science fiction comments on the state of personal identity in a 21st-century society dependent on forms of technology that threaten the individual. This collection of essays examines the various characters and themes presented in the series throughout its two-year run on television. In addition, the essays look at how the series fits into Joss Whedon’s oeuvre as auteur, director, and producer.

Author : Jay Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135513436

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No Place for Home by Jay Ellis Pdf

This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually eschews direct indications of psychology, his landscapes allow us to infer much about their motivations. The relationship of ambivalent nostalgia for domesticity to McCarthy's descriptions of space remains relatively unexamined at book length, and through less theoretical application than close reading. By including McCarthy's latest book, this study offer the only complete study of all nine novels. Within McCarthy studies, this book extends and complicates a growing interest in space and domesticity in his work. The author combines a high regard for McCarthy's stylistic prowess with a provocative reading of how his own psychological habits around gender issues and family relations power books that only appear to be stories of masculine heroics, expressions of misogynistic fear, or antinomian rejections of civilized life.

Author : Fraser A. Sherman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786462254

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Screen Enemies of the American Way by Fraser A. Sherman Pdf

American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the movies—Nazi agents, Japanese-American spies, Communist Party subversives, Islamic sleeper cells—as well as the science-fiction threats that play to the same fears, such as alien body-snatchers and android doppelgangers. The work also examines fears inspired by World War I German spies, the Japanese-American internment and the McCarthyite witch-hunts and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen.