Haunted Homes

Author : Dahlia Schweitzer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978807754

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Haunted Homes by Dahlia Schweitzer Pdf

Haunted Homes is a short but groundbreaking study of homes in horror film and television. While haunted houses can be fun and thrilling, Hollywood horror tends to focus on haunted homes, places where the suburban American dream of safety and comfort has turned into a nightmare. From classic movies like The Old Dark House to contemporary works like Hereditary and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, Dahlia Schweitzer explores why haunted homes have become a prime stage for dramatizing anxieties about family, gender, race, and economic collapse. She traces how the haunted home film was intertwined with the expansion of American suburbia, but also explores works like The Witch and The Babadook, which transport the genre to different times and places. This lively and readable study reveals how and why an increasing number of films imagine that home is where the horror is. Watch a video of the author discussing the topic Haunted Homes (https://youtu.be/_irTEfvtZfQ).

Author : Robert D. San Souci
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429943000

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Haunted Houses by Robert D. San Souci Pdf

Scare-master Robert San Souci serves up ten chilling tales about untraditional haunted houses: a mansion full of pirate treasure, a ghost trapped in a mysterious dollhouse, a boy whose vacation house comes complete with people-eating spiders, and many more. But beware because not all of the protagonists in these stories get out alive.

Author : Corinne May Botz
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781580932912

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Haunted Houses by Corinne May Botz Pdf

“When I was between the ages of five and eight, my sister and I slept in a large attic bedroom. At nightfall the room was filled with gypsies who glided around in clusters. They wore colorful thin flowing dresses and rummaged greedily through my drawers and books as if they would steal everything. I lay in bed as stiff as a board, trying to will myself invisible, praying they would not notice me looking . . . Daylight obliterated the gypsies, rendering them as thoroughly insubstantial as they had been real in the dark. I had a vague understanding that my vision was private, so I never told my family what I saw.” So began Corinne May Botz’s fascination with the invisible, a phenomenon that has profoundly influenced her approach to photography in style and subject matter. For more than ten years, she searched for ghost stories in buildings across the United States. She ventured into these haunted places with both camera and tape recorder in hand; her photographs, accompanied by first-person narratives, reveal a rare glimpse into American interiors, both physical and psychological. This book includes more than eighty haunted buildings, from the legendary to the ordinary, including Edgar Allan Poe’s house in Baltimore, a New Jersey tavern, and a Massachusetts farmhouse, a log cabin in Kentucky, and a number of private residences. The text includes ghost stories told to the author by those who lived through the moving rugs, creaking floors, apparitions, disappearing—and reappearing—objects, cries in the night, mysteriously burning candles, and other unexplained occurrences.

Author : Dorah L. Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781459709430

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Haunted by Dorah L. Williams Pdf

It was an irrational decision. Despite having just moved into a beautiful new house, the Williams family gave in to an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase and move into a Victorian home they had come upon by chance. They were curious, of course, as to why the house had, in the past, had such a high vacancy rate - no one ever seemed to live in it for a long period of time. But that curiosity didn’t last long, because shortly after moving in, strange things began to happen. It became abundantly clear that the home’s past owners had all had a reason for leaving: fear. The Williams’ new home was haunted. At first, the family tried telling themselves there were logical explanations for the strange things they all were witnessing. But before long they came to accept the fact that they were sharing their home with ghosts. Haunted is the Williams family’s story from the point of view of the mother, Dorah. Through her chilling reminiscences, we witness the all-too-real goings-on in the house. And we join the family as they seek a way to bring an end to the paranormal events that were occurring with ever more frequency and intensity, and learn why the events began in the first place.

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780333649

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The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories by Peter Haining Pdf

Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of favourite haunted house tales chosen by famous screen stars Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Plus a top ranking list of contributors that includes Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Ruth Rendell, and James Herbert - all brought together by an anthologist who himself lives in a haunted house. Stories include: Something unspeakable lurks in a Connecticut apartment closet, in Stephen King's 'The Boogeyman'; An Irish castle holds something truly horrifying in wait, in 'The Whistling Room' by William Hope Hodgson; The lecherous old ghost of a Georgian country house eyes up his latest tenant, in Norah Lofts' 'Mr Edward'; An ancient mansion on a shelf of rock previously occupied by a doomed castle, in 'In Letters of Fire' by Gaston Le Roux; The hunter is hunted in James Herbert's tale of nineteenth-century country mansion, 'The Ghost Hunter'; Psychic phenomena and poltergeists, avenging spirits and phantom lovers - curl up and read on, but never imagine you are safe from a visit...

Author : Barbara Cox,Scott Forbes
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482402322

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Haunted Homes by Barbara Cox,Scott Forbes Pdf

Everyone knows about nightmares, but they might not know that a "night mare" is a demon in Norse mythology that sits on a person's chest and makes them have frightening dreams. That's pretty scary! Readers will be thrilled to learn about more supernatural beings known to haunt homes and terrify people, such as poltergeists and even vampires. The only things spookier than these tales are the imaginative illustrations that make these creatures seem almost real.

Author : Susanne Bacon
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728313597

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Haunted Homes by Susanne Bacon Pdf

Treasures galore but no storage room—the Historical Museum of Wycliff is facing a challenge as it has been given the opportunity of picking over the furnishings of an old villa. While assessing its inventory, Izzy Watson, the museum’s part-time curator, wonders who is leaving vintage jewelry on her doorstep. Is the mysterious donor connected to the villa? And why is her friend, boutique owner Margaret Oswald, so very much afraid of turning her obvious love for a charming man into a relationship? What ghosts of the past are haunting her?

Author : Adam Stone
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781600145018

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Haunted Houses by Adam Stone Pdf

"Engaging images accompany information about haunted houses. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

Author : John Henry Ingram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : OXFORD:555049510

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The haunted homes and family traditions of Great Britain by John Henry Ingram Pdf

Author : John H. Ingram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012349192

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The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain by John H. Ingram Pdf

Author : Dorah L. Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781770701113

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Haunted by Dorah L. Williams Pdf

It was an irrational decision. Despite having just moved into a beautiful new house, the Williams family gave in to an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase and move into a Victorian home they had come upon by chance. They were curious, of course, as to why the house had, in the past, had such a high vacancy rate - no one ever seemed to live in it for a long period of time. But that curiosity didn’t last long, because shortly after moving in, strange things began to happen. It became abundantly clear that the home’s past owners had all had a reason for leaving: fear. The Williams’ new home was haunted. At first, the family tried telling themselves there were logical explanations for the strange things they all were witnessing. But before long they came to accept the fact that they were sharing their home with ghosts. Haunted is the Williams family’s story from the point of view of the mother, Dorah. Through her chilling reminiscences, we witness the all-too-real goings-on in the house. And we join the family as they seek a way to bring an end to the paranormal events that were occurring with ever more frequency and intensity, and learn why the events began in the first place.

Author : J Murphy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244340827

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Haunted Ancestral Homes by J Murphy Pdf

Author : Barbara Cox,Scott Forbes
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482402308

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Haunted Homes by Barbara Cox,Scott Forbes Pdf

Everyone knows about nightmares, but they might not know that a "night mare" is a demon in Norse mythology that sits on a person's chest and makes them have frightening dreams. That's pretty scary! Readers will be thrilled to learn about more supernatural beings known to haunt homes and terrify people, such as poltergeists and even vampires. The only things spookier than these tales are the imaginative illustrations that make these creatures seem almost real.

Author : Walter Hubbell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781497679351

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The Haunted House by Walter Hubbell Pdf

The blood-chilling true story of a nineteenth-century girl’s terrifying and bewildering haunting First published in 1879, The Haunted House: A True Ghost Story is the author’s account of the infamous haunting of eighteen-year-old Esther Cox, who lived with her extended family in Amherst, Nova Scotia—a beautiful, peaceful little village, population three thousand—during the late 1800s. Walter Hubbell stayed with the family for six weeks, during which he witnessed a variety of alternately compelling and terrifying paranormal and unexplained events. As he describes these manifestations: No person has yet been able to ascertain their cause. Scientific men from all parts of Canada and the United States have investigated them in vain. Some people think that electricity is the principal agent; others, mesmerism; whilst others again, are sure they are produced by the devil. Of the three supposed causes, the latter is certainly the most plausible theory, for some of the manifestations are remarkably devilish in their appearance and effect. For instance, the mysterious setting of fires, the powerful shaking of the house, the loud and incessant noises and distinct knocking, as if made by invisible sledge-hammers, on the walls; also, the strange actions of the household furniture, which moves about in the broad daylight without the slightest visible cause. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Author : Walter Hubbell
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425011628

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Haunted House A True Ghost Story EasyRea by Walter Hubbell Pdf

It is one of the best spooky stories, definitely spine-chilling. Mysterious and vivacious action in the story mesmerizes the reader. The horrifying effect is created as the arcane setting of fires, shaking of the house, loud and incessant noises, distinct knocking as sledge-hammers on the walls and the furniture moves in day-light without any visible cause. Interesting and fear-provoking!