Anticipating a regular, uneventful summer, nine-year-old Abby is astounded when she meets up with an angry ghost in her house who draws her into a mysterious adventure.
"In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness"--Amazon.com.
Kristy and Lawrence are a couple who work together as Private Investigators.Kristy is fascinated by the paranormal while Lawrence remains sceptical. She has added psychic skills to her resume which has lead her to being relegated to the role of nanny when she applies for investigate work. She is rescued from this role by a distraught mother, Suzanne, who is convinced her son, Eddy, was murdered.Eddy has died in a house fire, along with a young girl assumed to be Ashlin, who had been left in charge of the house. Kristy is led deeper into the maze of relationships of Eddy and Ashlin and Eddy's family. Kristy finds Ashlin's journal and is fascinated by her account of a young boy and girl dying, in a fire, in a house by the sea. Finally, the case appears to have been wrapped up, at least from sceptical Lawrence's point of view, but following events show all is not as it seems.
If you want to see a ghost, you have to believe in them... Siblings Jo and Allan spend a magical six-week summer holiday with their aunt at her fancy dress shop in Hastings, England, surrounded by magic, the age-old history of Hastings, and haunted houses. Jo is an 8-year-old girl who loves cats - and ghosts - and is anxious to see her very first spirit. Surely in historic Hastings, her wish will come true! Allan is her 11-year-old brother who loves football and history. He is also very protective of his little sister. Now a history teacher, the story is told through Allan's eyes many years later, as he recounts what happened on My Haunted Summer Holiday. Join these two for a summer vacation you will never forget.
The inscription on the back cover says it all: "I have not lived in vain but lived for this." Since my Collected Poems were published in 2004, I have lived and learned, loved and lost, and lived to love again. This is the journal of my journey, contained within these three hundred pieces of my heart. This is my best, and never mind the rest. As the title indicates, I write from my heart to yours, "dancing naked" as it were as I deal with disability and struggle to survive in this house haunted by a hundred years of the colorful history of my strange family. The poems cover the entire spectrum of human experience from tragedy to triumph, despair to delight, and all my adventures between along the way. I am a wanderer, a lone wolf, an outsider looking in. This is my story, this is my heart in three hundred pieces. I offer it to you with love and the pride of an honest craftsman, in both softcover and collectible hardcover editions. Respect and solidarity, +Steven Curtis Lance
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The Smith family have just moved to the country, outside the boyhood town Rick Smith had grown up around. The house that they've bought is an old farmhouse Rick remembered as an iconic relic of local lore as being haunted. Rick had heard stories, of course, just as most everyone in the community had heard of the ghost stories out at the old house. Only it wouldn't be until the Smiths would settle into the place that suppositions would begin to occur, when sounds they would hear in the night would grow into supernatural phenomenon that will terrify the Smith family for the rest of their lives.
This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces how it came to represent an ideal of ‘natural’ space as empty of human history and social conflict. Building on a theoretical framework which combines insights from ecocriticism and spatial theory, the author explores the spatial dimensions of haunting and ‘hauntology’ and shows how 21st-century writers draw on a Gothic repertoire of seemingly supernatural occurrences and spectral imagery to portray ‘natural’ space as disturbed, uncanny and socially contested. Iain Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane are revealed to apply psychogeography’s interest in ‘hidden histories’ and haunted places to spaces associated with ‘wilderness’ and ‘the countryside’. Kathleen Jamie’s allusions to the Gothic are put in relation to her feminist re-writing of ‘the outdoors’, and John Burnside’s use of haunting is shown to dismantle fictions of ‘the far north’. This book provides not only a discussion of a wide range of factual and fictional narratives of the present but also an analysis of the intertextual dialogue with the Romantic tradition which enfolds in these texts.
Despite the constant changes in contemporary popular media, the horror genre retains its attraction for audiences of all backgrounds. This edited collection explores modern representations of gender in horror and how this factors into the genre's appeal.