Author: LaSonia Cox
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450279759
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
The past haunts everyone in its own way, but we all move on and learn from it. Can Sam run from her past for long or will it finally catch up with her. She has tired so hard to forget and move on but a new verse of her life is bout to meet the nightmares of her past. Josh doesnt know bout Sams past, will she tell him before its to late or will her secrets destroy the life they could heve together.
Sam's Haunting Past
Author: LaSonia Cox
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450279759
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
The past haunts everyone in its own way, but we all move on and learn from it. Can Sam run from her past for long or will it finally catch up with her. She has tired so hard to forget and move on but a new verse of her life is bout to meet the nightmares of her past. Josh doesnt know bout Sams past, will she tell him before its to late or will her secrets destroy the life they could heve together.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450279759
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
The past haunts everyone in its own way, but we all move on and learn from it. Can Sam run from her past for long or will it finally catch up with her. She has tired so hard to forget and move on but a new verse of her life is bout to meet the nightmares of her past. Josh doesnt know bout Sams past, will she tell him before its to late or will her secrets destroy the life they could heve together.
Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Author: R. Arias
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230246745
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230246745
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works.
Sam Wu Is Not Afraid of Ghosts
Author: Katie Tsang
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN: 1454932570
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
“Reluctant readers and fans of the Wimpy Kid series and its ilk will appreciate the book’s dynamic type, graphics galore, cartoonish illustrations, and ironic footnotes.”—Kirkus Don’t call him scaredy-cat Sam, because Sam Wu IS NOT AFRAID of ghosts! Except . . . he totally is. Can he conquer his fear by facing the ghost that lives in the walls of his house? After an unfortunate (and very embarrassing) incident in the Space Museum, Sam goes on a mission to prove to the school bully, and all his friends, that he’s not afraid of anything—just like the heroes on his favorite show, Space Blasters. And when it looks like his house is haunted, Sam gets the chance to prove how brave he can be. A funny, touching, and charming story of ghost hunting, escaped pet snakes, and cats with attitude!
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN: 1454932570
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
“Reluctant readers and fans of the Wimpy Kid series and its ilk will appreciate the book’s dynamic type, graphics galore, cartoonish illustrations, and ironic footnotes.”—Kirkus Don’t call him scaredy-cat Sam, because Sam Wu IS NOT AFRAID of ghosts! Except . . . he totally is. Can he conquer his fear by facing the ghost that lives in the walls of his house? After an unfortunate (and very embarrassing) incident in the Space Museum, Sam goes on a mission to prove to the school bully, and all his friends, that he’s not afraid of anything—just like the heroes on his favorite show, Space Blasters. And when it looks like his house is haunted, Sam gets the chance to prove how brave he can be. A funny, touching, and charming story of ghost hunting, escaped pet snakes, and cats with attitude!
The Haunting Past Has Risen
Author: Pattie A. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365645843
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Janet Simmons's never thought that running away from home five years ago would come back at her like an erupting volcano. She had been warned that Ishmael, the false promise, usually came before Isaac, the true promise. She had met her Ishmael, her fool's gold, and now he wants her and her family eliminated.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365645843
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Janet Simmons's never thought that running away from home five years ago would come back at her like an erupting volcano. She had been warned that Ishmael, the false promise, usually came before Isaac, the true promise. She had met her Ishmael, her fool's gold, and now he wants her and her family eliminated.
Haunting Realities
Author: Monika Elbert
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817319379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities Following the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities explores the period of American Realism—the end of the nineteenth century—to discover evidence of fertile ground for another age of Gothic proliferation. At first glance, “Naturalist Gothic” seems to be a contradiction in terms. While the Gothic is known for its sensational effects, with its emphasis on horror and the supernatural, the doctrines of late nineteenth-century Naturalism attempted to move away from the aesthetics of sentimentality and stressed sobering, mechanistic views of reality steeped in scientific thought and the determinism of market values and biology. Nonetheless, what binds Gothicism and Naturalism together is a vision of shared pessimism and the perception of a fearful, lingering presence that ominously haunts an impending modernity. Indeed, it seems that in many Naturalist works reality is so horrific that it can only be depicted through Gothic tropes that prefigure the alienation and despair of modernism. In recent years, research on the Gothic has flourished, yet there has been no extensive study of the links between the Gothic and Naturalism, particularly those which stem from the early American Realist tradition. Haunting Realities is a timely volume that addresses this gap and is an important addition to scholarly work on both the Gothic and Naturalism in the American literary tradition.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817319379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities Following the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities explores the period of American Realism—the end of the nineteenth century—to discover evidence of fertile ground for another age of Gothic proliferation. At first glance, “Naturalist Gothic” seems to be a contradiction in terms. While the Gothic is known for its sensational effects, with its emphasis on horror and the supernatural, the doctrines of late nineteenth-century Naturalism attempted to move away from the aesthetics of sentimentality and stressed sobering, mechanistic views of reality steeped in scientific thought and the determinism of market values and biology. Nonetheless, what binds Gothicism and Naturalism together is a vision of shared pessimism and the perception of a fearful, lingering presence that ominously haunts an impending modernity. Indeed, it seems that in many Naturalist works reality is so horrific that it can only be depicted through Gothic tropes that prefigure the alienation and despair of modernism. In recent years, research on the Gothic has flourished, yet there has been no extensive study of the links between the Gothic and Naturalism, particularly those which stem from the early American Realist tradition. Haunting Realities is a timely volume that addresses this gap and is an important addition to scholarly work on both the Gothic and Naturalism in the American literary tradition.
Post-Westerns
Author: Neil Campbell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496209621
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply "maintaining its empty frame." Yet this frame is far from empty, as Post-Westerns shows us: rather than collapse, the Western instead found a new form through which to scrutinize and question the very assumptions on which the genre was based. Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary U.S. culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films--including Bad Day at Black Rock, The Misfits, Lone Star, Easy Rider, Gas Food Lodging, Down in the Valley, and No Country for Old Men--reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself. Campbell suggests that post-Westerns are in fact "ghost-Westerns," haunted by the earlier form's devices and styles in ways that at once acknowledge and call into question the West, both as such and in its persistent ideological framing of the national identity and values.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496209621
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply "maintaining its empty frame." Yet this frame is far from empty, as Post-Westerns shows us: rather than collapse, the Western instead found a new form through which to scrutinize and question the very assumptions on which the genre was based. Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary U.S. culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films--including Bad Day at Black Rock, The Misfits, Lone Star, Easy Rider, Gas Food Lodging, Down in the Valley, and No Country for Old Men--reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself. Campbell suggests that post-Westerns are in fact "ghost-Westerns," haunted by the earlier form's devices and styles in ways that at once acknowledge and call into question the West, both as such and in its persistent ideological framing of the national identity and values.
Her Haunted Past
Author: Maggie Blake
Publisher: Book Venture Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1946492469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Samantha Richards had survived the physical abuse of her childhood with the help of a neighbor and his farm. She put herself through college and graduated with a degree as a licensed veterinarian. Fate brought her to Atlanta, Georgia to interview for a position in a large animal hospital. The paranoid owner recognized her and ultimately hires a hit man to kill her. In the meantime, the neighbor that had taken her under his wing as a teenager goes missing. Samantha’s phone call to him brings her back to her home state of Kentucky, the place where she never wanted to return. She finds herself in the middle of an FBI investigation, while trying to dodge a hit man to save herself. When she meets the lead FBI agent who just happens to be the farmers nephew, will she be able to stay alive long enough to pursue the feelings she develops for him? Will he beable to keep her alive long enough to figure out who she really is?
Publisher: Book Venture Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1946492469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Samantha Richards had survived the physical abuse of her childhood with the help of a neighbor and his farm. She put herself through college and graduated with a degree as a licensed veterinarian. Fate brought her to Atlanta, Georgia to interview for a position in a large animal hospital. The paranoid owner recognized her and ultimately hires a hit man to kill her. In the meantime, the neighbor that had taken her under his wing as a teenager goes missing. Samantha’s phone call to him brings her back to her home state of Kentucky, the place where she never wanted to return. She finds herself in the middle of an FBI investigation, while trying to dodge a hit man to save herself. When she meets the lead FBI agent who just happens to be the farmers nephew, will she be able to stay alive long enough to pursue the feelings she develops for him? Will he beable to keep her alive long enough to figure out who she really is?
Ghost Ride
Author: Marina Cohen
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459717422
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
When 14-year-old Sam McLean reluctantly joins Cody and his sidekick, Javon, for a ghost ride, something goes terribly wrong. Cody convinces Sam to flee the scene, leaving Javon for dead. Soon mysterious messages appear. As Sam struggles with his conscience, a haunting question remains: Who else knows the truth?
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459717422
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
When 14-year-old Sam McLean reluctantly joins Cody and his sidekick, Javon, for a ghost ride, something goes terribly wrong. Cody convinces Sam to flee the scene, leaving Javon for dead. Soon mysterious messages appear. As Sam struggles with his conscience, a haunting question remains: Who else knows the truth?
Haunting the Deep
Author: Adriana Mather
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 055353954X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls meets Titanic in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous “ship of dreams”—a story made all the more fascinating because the author’s own relatives survived the doomed voyage. Samantha Mather knew her family’s connection to the infamous Salem Witch Trials might pose obstacles to an active social life. But having survived one curse, she never thought she’d find herself at the center of a new one. This time, Sam is having recurring dreams about the Titanic . . . where she’s been walking the deck with first-class passengers, like her aunt and uncle. Meanwhile, in Sam’s waking life, strange missives from the Titanic have been finding their way to her, along with haunting visions of people who went down with the ship. Ultimately, Sam and the Descendants, along with some help from heartthrob Elijah, must unravel who is behind the spell that is drawing her ever further into the dream ship . . . and closer to sharing the same grim fate as its ghostly passengers. Praise for How to Hang a Witch: “It’s like Mean Girls meets history class in the best possible way.” —Seventeen “Mather shines a light on the lessons the Salem Witch Trials can teach us about modern-day bullying—and what we can do about it.” —Bustle.com “Strikes a careful balance of creepy, fun, and thoughtful.” —NPR “I am utterly addicted to Adriana Mather’s electric debut. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, twisting and turning with ghosts, witches, an ancient curse, and—sigh—romance. It’s beautiful. Haunting. The characters are vivid and real. I. Could. Not. Put. It. Down.” —Jennifer Niven, bestselling author of All the Bright Places
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 055353954X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls meets Titanic in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous “ship of dreams”—a story made all the more fascinating because the author’s own relatives survived the doomed voyage. Samantha Mather knew her family’s connection to the infamous Salem Witch Trials might pose obstacles to an active social life. But having survived one curse, she never thought she’d find herself at the center of a new one. This time, Sam is having recurring dreams about the Titanic . . . where she’s been walking the deck with first-class passengers, like her aunt and uncle. Meanwhile, in Sam’s waking life, strange missives from the Titanic have been finding their way to her, along with haunting visions of people who went down with the ship. Ultimately, Sam and the Descendants, along with some help from heartthrob Elijah, must unravel who is behind the spell that is drawing her ever further into the dream ship . . . and closer to sharing the same grim fate as its ghostly passengers. Praise for How to Hang a Witch: “It’s like Mean Girls meets history class in the best possible way.” —Seventeen “Mather shines a light on the lessons the Salem Witch Trials can teach us about modern-day bullying—and what we can do about it.” —Bustle.com “Strikes a careful balance of creepy, fun, and thoughtful.” —NPR “I am utterly addicted to Adriana Mather’s electric debut. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, twisting and turning with ghosts, witches, an ancient curse, and—sigh—romance. It’s beautiful. Haunting. The characters are vivid and real. I. Could. Not. Put. It. Down.” —Jennifer Niven, bestselling author of All the Bright Places
Ghost Stories of Alberta
Author: Barbara Smith
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888821522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An eerie collection of ghost stories in Alberta, from urban centres to rural areas and the Rocky Mountains.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888821522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An eerie collection of ghost stories in Alberta, from urban centres to rural areas and the Rocky Mountains.