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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin

Author : Ruth Franklin
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631492129

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Winner • National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) Winner • Edgar Award (Critical/Biographical) Winner • Bram Stoker Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, NPR, TIME, Boston Globe, NYLON, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist In this “thoughtful and persuasive” biography, award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin establishes Shirley Jackson as a “serious and accomplished literary artist” (Charles McGrath, New York Times Book Review). Instantly heralded for its “masterful” and “thrilling” portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House. In this “remarkable act of reclamation” (Neil Gaiman), Ruth Franklin envisions Jackson as “belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James” (New York Times Book Review) and demonstrates how her unique contribution to the canon “so uncannily channeled women’s nightmares and contradictions that it is ‘nothing less than the secret history of American women of her era’ ” (Washington Post). Franklin investigates the “interplay between the life, the work, and the times with real skill and insight, making this fine book a real contribution not only to biography, but to mid-20th-century women’s history” (Chicago Tribune). “Wisely rescu[ing] Shirley Jackson from any semblance of obscurity” (Lena Dunham), Franklin’s invigorating portrait stands as the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary genius.

The Haunted Life

Jack Kerouac

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141977836

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The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realises how sheltered his upbringing has been. As he surveys the competing influences of his youth, he struggles to determine what might lead to an intellectually authentic life. The Haunted Life is ultimately a meditation on intellectual truth, male friendship and the desire for movement - all themes that would dominate Kerouac's later work.

Haunted Life

David Marriott

Author : David Marriott
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813540283

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In Haunted Life, David Marriott examines the complex interplay between racial fears and anxieties and the political-visual cultures of suspicion and state terror. He compels readers to consider how media technologies are "haunted" by the phantom of racial slavery. Through examples from film and television, modernist literature, and philosophy, he shows how the ideological image of a brutal African past is endlessly recycled and how this perpetuation of historical catastrophe stokes our nation's race-conscious paranoia. Drawing on a range of comparative readings by writers, theorists, and filmmakers, including John Edgar Wideman, Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, Issac Julien, Alain Locke, and Sidney Poitier, Haunted Life is a bold and original exploration of the legacies of black visual culture and the political, deeply sexualized violence that lies buried beneath it.

LIFE The World's Most Haunted Places

The Editors of LIFE

Author : The Editors of LIFE
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781547845569

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Life Magazine presents The World's Most Haunted Places.

The Haunted Life

Jack Kerouac

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780306823053

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1944 was a troubled and momentous year for Jack Kerouac. In March, his close friend and literary confidant, Sebastian Sampas, lost his life on the Anzio beachhead while serving as a US Army medic. That spring -- still reeling with grief over Sebastian -- Kerouac solidified his friendships with Lucien Carr, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, offsetting the loss of Sampas by immersing himself in New York's blossoming mid-century bohemia. That August, however, Carr stabbed his longtime acquaintance and mentor David Kammerer to death in Riverside Park, claiming afterwards that he had been defending his manhood against Kammerer's persistent and unwanted advances. Kerouac was originally charged in Kammerer'a killing as an accessory after the fact as a result of his aiding Carr in disposing of the murder weapon and Kammerer's eyeglasses. Consequently, Kerouac was jailed in August 1944 and married his first wife, Edie Parker, on the twenty-second of that month in order to secure the money he needed for his bail bond. Eventually the authorities accepted Carr's account of the killing, trying him instead for manslaughter and thus nullifying the charges against Kerouac. At some point later in the year -- under circumstances that remain rather mysterious -- the aspiring writer lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life, a coming of age story set in Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. Kerouac set his fictional treatment of Peter Martin against the backdrop of the everyday: the comings and goings of the shopping district, the banter and braggadocio that occurs within the smoky atmospherics of the corner bar, the drowsy sound of a baseball game over the radio. Peter is heading into his sophomore year at Boston College, and while home for the summer in Galloway he struggles with the pressing issues of his day -- the economic crisis of the previous decade and what appears to be the impending entrance of the United States into the Second World War. The other principal characters, Garabed Tourian and Dick Sheffield, are based respectively on Sebastian Sampas and fellow Lowellian Billy Chandler, both of whom had already died in combat by the time of Kerouac's drafting of The Haunted Life (providing some of the impetus for its title). Garabed is a leftist idealist and poet, with a pronounced tinge of the Byronic. Dick is a romantic adventurer whose wanderlust has him poised to leave Galloway for the wider world -- with or without Peter. The Haunted Life also contains a compelling and controversial portrayal of Jack's father, Leo Kerouac, recast as Joe Martin. Opposite of Garabed's progressive, New Deal persepctive, Joe is a right-wing and bigoted populist, and an ardent admirer of radio personality Father Charles Coughlin. The conflicts of the novella are primarily intellectual, then, as Peter finds himself suspended between the differing views of history, politics, and the world embodied by the other three characters, and struggles to define what he believes to be intellectually true and worthy of his life and talents. The Haunted Life, skillfully edited by University of Massachusetts at Lowell Assistant Professor of English Todd F. Tietchen, is rounded out by sketches, notes, and reflections Kerouac kept during the novella's composition, as well as a revealing selection of correspondence with his father, Leo Kerouac.

Haunted Heart

Lisa Rogak

Author : Lisa Rogak
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429987974

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A fascinating look at the life of the author who created such modern classics as Carrie, IT, and The Shining. One of the most prolific and popular authors in the world today, Stephen King has become part of pop culture history. But who is the man behind those tales of horror, grief, and the supernatural? Where do these ideas come from? And what drives him to keep writing at a breakneck pace after a thirty year career? In this unauthorized biography, Lisa Rogak reveals the troubled background and lifelong fears that inspire one of the twentieth century's most influential authors. King's origins were inauspicious at best. His impoverished childhood in rural Maine and early marriage hardly spelled out the likelihood of a blossoming literary career. But his unflagging work ethic and a ceaseless flow of ideas put him on the path to success. It came in a flash, and the side effects of sudden stardom and seemingly unlimited wealth soon threatened to destroy his work and, worse, his life. But he survived and has since continued to write at a level of originality few authors could ever hope to match. Despite his dark and disturbing work, Stephen King has become revered by critics and his countless fans as an all-American voice more akin to Mark Twain than H. P. Lovecraft. Haunted Heart chronicles his story, revealing the character of a man who has created some of the most memorable---and frightening---stories found in literature today. Stephen King on Stephen King: "I'm afraid of everything." "As a kid, I worried about my sanity a lot." "I am always interested in this idea that a lot of fiction writers write for their fathers because their fathers are gone." "Writing is an addiction for me." "I married her for her body, though she said I married her for her typewriter." "When you get into this business, they don't tell you you'll get cat bones in the mail." "You have to be a little nuts to be a writer." "There's always the urge to see somebody dead that isn't you."

Haunted Narratives

Gabriele Rippl,Philipp Schweighauser,Therese Steffen,Tiina Kirss,Margit Sutrop

Author : Gabriele Rippl,Philipp Schweighauser,Therese Steffen,Tiina Kirss,Margit Sutrop
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442646018

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Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting presence of the past in the present. The contributors focus on the psychological, ethical, and representational difficulties involved in narrative negotiations of traumatic memories. Haunted Narratives focuses on life writing in the broadest sense of the term: biographies and autobiographies that deal with traumatic experiences, autobiographically inspired fictions on loss and trauma, and limit-cases that transcend clear-cut distinctions between the factual and the fictional. In discussing texts as diverse as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Vikram Seth's Two Lives, deportation narratives of Baltic women, Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni, the contributors add significantly to current debates on life writing, trauma, and memory; the contested notion of cultural trauma; and the transferability of clinical-psychological notions to the study of literature and culture.

Haunted

Barbara Haworth-Attard

Author : Barbara Haworth-Attard
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443452953

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I Am Haunted, 2nd Edition

Zak Bagans

Author : Zak Bagans
Publisher : Victory Belt Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781628600803

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He has bought a demon house in Indiana that has been described as a “portal to hell,” summoned the devil at the Hellfire Club in Ireland, and been attacked by a possessed doll in Mexico. But sometimes it’s his interactions with the living that rattle him the most, from innocent people harboring evil spirits to crazed fans to the victims of violent spirit attacks. Through his investigations of the world’s most haunted places, Zak has learned far more about the living and the dead than anyone should. He’s been to the edge of death and back and come away with a spiritual key that unlocks doors to another world that few have ever seen. Come along for the ride.

Your Haunted Lives

G. Michael Vasey

Author : G. Michael Vasey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996197222

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Your Haunted Lives edited by G. Michael Vasey, is a collection of creepy, often downright terrifying, true experiences of the paranormal submitted by visitors to the My haunted life too website supplemented with a number of true ghostly events experienced by G. Michael Vasey. These terrifying and sometimes disturbing tales, have been carefully selected and edited, and range from apparitions to hauntings, to demons through to the downright bizarre! This collection of Mystifying, Creepy, Real Life Ghost Stories are true tales of 'Horrifying Encounters' with the Supernatural and paranormal. They include visits from terrifying entities, haunted houses, strange and scary poltergeist, Attempted possession, Ouija board nightmares, evil demonic forces, haunted cemeteries, haunted mirrors, time displacement and much, much more. They will chill you to the bone! These are supplemented with true stories of the editor's own strange and scary experiences. This terrific, terrifying collection of true spooky stories of the paranormal will keep you looking over your shoulder and wide awake.... Your Haunted Lives - A collection of true ghost stories edited by G. Michael Vasey with a foreword by Darren Marlar, host and creator of the Weird Darkness podcast.

Haunted

Dorah L. Williams

Author : Dorah L. Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781459709430

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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.

Haunted Lives

John Pielmeier

Author : John Pielmeier
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822205033

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THE STORIES: The first play, A WITCH'S BREW, takes place in the darkened basement of a remote farmhouse, where Daed, his sister Jule, and her boyfriend Tucker, nervously explore the macabre secrets of the shallow graves they believe to be there. Pe

The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

Austin Reed

Author : Austin Reed
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812986914

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The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. “[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe).”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript: the memoir of Austin Reed, a free black man born in the 1820s who spent most of his early life ricocheting between forced labor in prison and forced labor as an indentured servant. Lost for more than one hundred and fifty years, the handwritten document is the first known prison memoir written by an African American. Corroborated by prison records and other documentary sources, Reed’s text gives a gripping first-person account of an antebellum Northern life lived outside slavery that nonetheless bore, in its day-to-day details, unsettling resemblances to that very institution. Now, for the first time, we can hear Austin Reed’s story as he meant to tell it. He was born to a middle-class black family in the boomtown of Rochester, New York, but when his father died, his mother struggled to make ends meet. Still a child, Reed was placed as an indentured servant to a nearby family of white farmers near Rochester. He was caught attempting to set fire to a building and sentenced to ten years at Manhattan’s brutal House of Refuge, an early juvenile reformatory that would soon become known for beatings and forced labor. Seven years later, Reed found himself at New York’s infamous Auburn State Prison. It was there that he finished writing this memoir, which explores America’s first reformatory and first industrial prison from an inmate’s point of view, recalling the great cruelties and kindnesses he experienced in those places and excavating patterns of racial segregation, exploitation, and bondage that extended beyond the boundaries of the slaveholding South, into free New York. Accompanied by fascinating historical documents (including a series of poignant letters written by Reed near the end of his life), The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a work of uncommon beauty that tells a story of nineteenth-century racism, violence, labor, and captivity in a proud, defiant voice. Reed’s memoir illuminates his own life and times—as well as ours today. Praise for The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict “One of the most fascinating and important memoirs ever produced in the United States.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . triumphantly defiant . . . The book’s greatest value lies in the gap it fills.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Reed displays virtuosic gifts for narrative that, a century and a half later, earn and hold the reader’s ear.”—Thomas Chatterton Williams, San Francisco Chronicle “[The book’s] urgency and relevance remain undiminished. . . . This exemplary edition recovers history without permanently trapping it in one interpretation.”—The Guardian “A sensational, novelistic telling of an eventful life.”—The Paris Review “Vivid and painful.”—NPR “Lyrical and graceful in one sentence, burning with fury and hellfire in the next.”—Columbus Free Press

Supposedly Haunted

E. Bensen

Author : E. Bensen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537737740

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E. E. Bensen details his search for proof of an afterlife through the exploration of supposedly haunted locations as a paranormal investigator. He describes real life supernatural events witnessed firsthand during his numerous investigations, and also speaks candidly about his experiences in the field and what brought him into it. While maintaining a sense of humor, he explains what it is like to witness paranormal activity up close and personal, and also provides an opinion of what all of it might be. Experiencing paranormal phenomenon has a way of changing one's perspective...

My Haunted Life

G. Michael Vasey

Author : G. Michael Vasey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1915-03-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986087351

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A collection of true tales of the paranormal from bestselling author G. Michael Vasey.

Haunted Life

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin Pdf

The Haunted Life by Jack Kerouac Pdf

Haunted Life by David Marriott Pdf

LIFE The World's Most Haunted Places by The Editors of LIFE Pdf

The Haunted Life by Jack Kerouac Pdf

Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogak Pdf

Haunted Narratives by Gabriele Rippl,Philipp Schweighauser,Therese Steffen,Tiina Kirss,Margit Sutrop Pdf

Haunted by Barbara Haworth-Attard Pdf

I Am Haunted, 2nd Edition by Zak Bagans Pdf

Your Haunted Lives by G. Michael Vasey Pdf

Haunted by Dorah L. Williams Pdf

Haunted Lives by John Pielmeier Pdf

The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict by Austin Reed Pdf

Supposedly Haunted by E. Bensen Pdf

My Haunted Life by G. Michael Vasey Pdf

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