Maria's Ghost
Maria's Ghost

Author: Henry Mora

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1469148455

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A woman uncovers the sinister reason behind a haunting that has plagued her for years. After moving from her birth town of Tijuana, Mexico, she learns the spirit followed her to a suburb of Los Angeles - Highland Park, where the situation escalates into a powerful supernatural attraction. Fearing the ghost has overstepped his boundaries after she suspects he is having sex with her while she sleeps, she seeks the guidance of a psychiatrist when she believes the ghost is causing her to become pregnant. After years of psychoanalysis, the psychiatrist’s prognosis is that her case is due to a persistent sexually imaginative mind. Her life condescends into a state of depression and despairs when her psychiatrist and family choose to institutionalize her to avoid further damage to her psyche. The situation intensifies into another-worldly tale where the entity that caused her misery is the very one that rescues her from an emotional breakdown. This fictional tale with overtones of DNA extraction, alien visitation, and romance will keep you in edge-of-your-seat suspense.

The Ghost of Panna Maria
The Ghost of Panna Maria

Author: Rita Kerr

Publisher: Eakin Press

Published: 2018-05-06

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781681791241

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In the year 1854, the first Polish settlement of America was founded at Panna Maria, Texas. After enduring a long, perilous voyage from Poland, the first Polish settlers faced many hardships in Texas. The historical facts in this book are documented. The ghost stories are based on folk tales and, perhaps, fiction.

Adolf Hitler's Ghost
Adolf Hitler's Ghost

Author: Elizabeth Maria Schmid, M.D.

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1649130562

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Adolf Hitler's Ghost By: Elizabeth Maria Schmid, M.D. Elizabeth was born on August 31, 1936 in Vienna, Austria to a non-Jewish family. She describes how she, as a young child, experienced the War, even though her family was not Jewish. Yet the spirit of the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler pervaded every aspect of every German and Austrian person, day and night. Everybody had to be afraid of their neighbors and careful about every word they spoke, and life was changed profoundly, not only during the war itself, but for many years after the war. The author compares her frightening war experience and frugal, almost impoverished post war life with one year in the USA, which she experienced as an exchange student to America, seven years after the end of the war. She describes life in the USA with the eyes and the mind of somebody who may just have arrived from another planet. Because of her international experience in the USA and having made friends with young people from all over the world and feeling comfortable with Jewish, Arabic, Iranian, and all nationalities later in Medical School, she was seriously harassed by a xenophobic and Holocaust denying society. She is convinced that a genocidal dictatorship, like that of Adolf Hitler and other monstrous Heads of State influence a society not just during their lifetime, but for several generations afterwards. She is also trying to say in this book that the average German and Austrian, though not sent into gas chambers, still suffered profoundly and many people ended up with permanent, lifelong stress disorders.

Ghost Stories from the American South
Ghost Stories from the American South

Author: W. K. McNeil

Publisher: august house

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780935304848

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Collects Southern legends and folk tales about haunted houses, supernatural events, and the appearances of ghosts

Maria's Girls
Maria's Girls

Author: Jerome Charyn

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2012-04-10

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1453251596

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DIVIn debt to the mob, Sidel’s sidekick brings hell to One Police Plaza/divDIV/divDIVFor Detective Caroll Brent, special attention from Commissioner Sidel is not a good thing. Sidel’s last pet detective, Manfred Coen, was killed by a gang of smugglers, and none of Sidel’s favorites have had good luck since. But when Sidel taps Brent for an unusual assignment, the young cop can’t refuse./divDIV /divDIVAs part of a feud with the head of the Board of Education, Sidel turns Brent into a one-man special task force to patrol the city’s schools. The lonely, miserable, dangerous work is not Brent’s only trouble. Ever since he made the mistake of marrying an heiress, he has been spending like mad to keep up with her lifestyle, borrowing money from the mob to keep himself in tuxedos on a detective’s salary. When his money runs out, it’s Sidel who will have to cover the debt./div

The Madonna Ghost
The Madonna Ghost

Author: Linda Maria Frank

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1491710632

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Seventeen-year-old Annie Tillery and her Aunt Jill set off for Long Islands Fire Island for a vacation of surf, sun, and sailing. Annie is happy to leave behind the stress of her relationship with her parents. Aunt Jill, who is an NYPD detective, is mixing her vacation with a case she must keep secret from Annie, who is suspicious nevertheless. Annie finds romance and intrigue when she meets Ty Egan, the nephew of their host on the island. They find themselves in the middle of an eerie adventure when she and Ty investigate the tragic and perplexing story of a local ghost. Annie becomes increasingly uneasy and the investigation turns sinister when Aunt Jill goes missing, the ghost appears, and the troublesome neighbors in the cottage next door become hostile. When they find one of Aunt Jills special earrings on the neighbors porch, they begin to wonder what she was doing there. Will they find Aunt Jill before its too late? In the breathless conclusion to their investigation, Annie and Ty narrowly escape death solving the mystery of The Madonna Ghost.

While the Women Are Sleeping
While the Women Are Sleeping

Author: Javier Marías

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2010-11-29

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0811216632

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Presents a collection of short stories, including "While the women are sleeping," in which a man lying on the beach spectulates on the lives of another pair of beach goers, and "The Resignation Letter of Señor de Santiesteban," in which a ghost jeopardizes the job of a new teacher.

A Diffuse Murmur of History
A Diffuse Murmur of History

Author: Fiona Schouten

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9789052015903

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After decades of uncomfortable silence, Spain has now started dealing with its violent twentieth-century past. In recent years, a vibrant memory discourse has emerged in Spanish society: the number of films, TV series, newspaper articles, history books, and memorials dedicated to the Civil War of 1936-1939 and the ensuing dictatorship of Franco has increased dramatically. Literature has also played its part in provoking and maintaining this memory boom, and as a consequence, the study of contemporary Spanish novels has started revolving around questions on the responsibility of the author, on the impact of literature in society, on its role in shaping memories, and on its ethical status. This book takes up these questions in an attempt to combine the outlook of collective memory studies with the theoretical demands of Poststructuralist theories. Focusing on themes such as haunting and the uncanny, nostalgia, the Bildungsroman genre, and autobiography, its author analyses memory narratives in fourteen novels by foremost Spanish authors like Javier Marías, Luis Goytisolo, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Manuel Vicent. -- From publisher's website.

Ghost Images
Ghost Images

Author: Tom Ruffles

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-03-07

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0786484217

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The possibility of life after death is a significant theme in cinema, in which ghosts return to the world of the living to wrap up unfinished business, console their survivors, visit lovers or just enjoy a well-wreaked scaring. This work focuses on film depictions of survival after death, from meetings with the ghost of Elvis to AIDS-related ghosts: apparitions, hauntings, mediumship, representations of heaven, angels, near-death experiences, possession, poltergeists and all the other ways in which the living interact with the dead on screen. The work opens with a historical perspective, which outlines the development of pre-cinematic technology for "projecting" phantoms, and discusses the use of these skills in early ghost cinema. English-language sound films are then examined thematically with topics ranging from the expiation of sins to "hungry" ghosts. Six of the most significant films, Dead of Night, A Matter of Life and Death, The Innocents, The Haunting, The Shining, and Jacob's Ladder, are given a detailed analysis. A conclusion, filmography, and bibliography follow.

A Companion to Javier Marías
A Companion to Javier Marías

Author: David K. Herzberger

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1855662302

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A detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and popular writers in Spain today. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the full range of Marías' writing, including discussion and analysis of his literary and intellectual formation, his development as a novelist and short story writer, andhis unique perspective offered in nearly twenty-five years of newspaper columns on topics ranging from religion to football. Above all, Marías is examined as a writer of fictions. As a translator of several canonical works from English to Spanish, Marías came to appreciate the preciseness of words as well as their ambiguity, their capacity to represent as well as their propensity to distort. The author examines Marías's constant awareness of how languagecan be used to construct stories as the foundation for engaging the world as well as for imagining it. The nature of Marías's storytelling, and the way in which he imagines, form the principal focus of this Companion. David K. Herzberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.