Ghost Stories: Evil Transparencies

Ghost Stories: Evil Transparencies
Author: William Peters
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012-04-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1620958201

Mike Morgan, a world renowned engineer, finally realizes the dream of owning a historical 1855 plantation estate. Soon after moving in, he is plagued by haunting nightmares that evolve into a terrifying reality. The story begins to unfold, revealing a tale of deception and murder that has trapped spirits to the plantation grounds for decades.Will Mike rise to the challenge of revealing the mysteries of the past and finally free the plantation's ghostly inhabitants? Or will the sins of the past continue to take their revenge on the occupants of the present?

Ghost Stories and Legends of Prince Edward Island

Ghost Stories and Legends of Prince Edward Island
Author: Julie V. Watson
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-10-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1459742486

A collection of haunting legends, delightful yarns, and spine-tingling ghost stories. Swathed in mist, surrounded by the secretive sea, wind wailing like the lost souls of sailors around its shores, Prince Edward Island is the ideal setting for the strange and incredible, even the supernatural. Islanders have handed down, from one generation to the next, many legends and ghost stories of visiting spirits, buried pirate treasure, sea serpents, and ghostly apparitions. Who dares to doubt the veracity of the sailors who met a phantom schooner, the fishermen who fled from a sea monster, or the countless Islanders who have dug for pirate gold, only to be terrified by something uncanny and to have abandoned their search? Curl up on a dark night with this new second edition and find yourself transported to the magical and mysterious Prince Edward Island.

The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature

The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature
Author: Kevin Corstorphine
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2018-11-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319974068

This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction.

Helen Keller Really Lived

Helen Keller Really Lived
Author: Elisabeth Sheffield
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1573661813

The newest novel by Elisabeth Sheffield, the award-winning author of Gone and Fort Da What does it mean to really live? Or not? Set in eastern, upstate New York, Helen Keller Really Lived features a fortyish former barfly and grifter who must make a living in the wake of her wealthy husband’s death, and who finds work in a clinic helping women seeking reproductive assistance. The other main character is the grifter’s dead ex-husband, a Ukrainian hooker-to-healer success story, who prior to his demise was a gynecologist and after, an amateur folklorist, or ghostlorist, who collected and provided scholarly commentary on the stories of his fellow “revenants.” Their intertwined stories explore the mistakes, miscarriages, inadequacies, and defeats that may have led to their divorce, including his failure (according to her) to “fully live.” As it investigates the theme of what it means to “really live” or not, Elisabeth Sheffield’s brilliant new novel is also an exploration of virtual reality in the sense of the experience provided by literature. It is a novel awash in a multitude of voices, from the obscenity-laced, Nabokovian soliloquys of the dead Ukrainian doctor, to the trade-school / midcentury-romance-novel-constrained style of his dead mother-in-law.

Children's Stories in Play Therapy

Children's Stories in Play Therapy
Author: Ann Cattanach
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1997
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781853023620

Ann Cattanach extends her acclaimed earlier published work to explore further the therapeutic value of story-making with children. Incorporating stories from children and authors, the book examines the common themes and metaphors that emerge, the purpose of stories, and the communication that they can engender between the therapist and the child.

Transparency, Power, and Control

Transparency, Power, and Control
Author: Christoph A. Hafner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2016-02-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317006674

This book brings together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines from more than twenty countries to reflect on the growing importance of transparency, power and control in our international community and how these concerns and ideas have been examined, used and interpreted in a range of national and international contexts. Contributors explore these issues from a range of overlapping concerns and perspectives, such as semiotic, sociolinguistic, psychological, philosophical, and visual in diverse socio-political, administrative, institutional, as well as legal contexts. The collection examines the ways in which 'actors' in our society - legislators, politicians, activists, and artists - have provoked public discourses to confront these issues.

Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories
Author: Hannah Tidy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2019-05-22
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781950921072

Real-Life Cases of Gut-Wrenching Demon Encounters That'll Shock the Daylights out of You! With the rampant growth and exploding popularity of the occult and satanism in our societies, the spirit world has received more attention than ever before. As scary and creepy as this idea may be, there is also the belief that demonic apparitions will, on occasion, push through to our world and invade not only our homes but also our bodies. Best-Selling author Hannah J. Tidy will introduce horrific stories and experiences of demonic encounters had by normal people who've dared to play with games such as the Ouija Board. A British family went through a string of horrific tribulations that seemed to continuously escalate from bad to worse. The story began to unfold on Christmas Eve 2014, with a man, who attempted to establish contact with the dead through the board game. After the ritual, he believed that evil spirits managed to get through from the other side and take possession of his home. This caused an outburst of paranoia in the man, who then proceeded to commit a despicable act of cruelty against his pet. Prior to this event, the man had never suffered from any mental illness. He drowned the dog in a bathtub, dismembered its body, and attempted to hide the evidence by shoving the remains into a nearby drain. The neighbors noticed something wrong was going on and approach the house to investigate... You won't believe what happens next! Read This Expanded Edition for FREE with Kindle Unlimited - Download Now! Don't Delay -- Get your copy of Horror Stories right away. Scroll to the top and select the "BUY" button for Instant Download. You'll be so happy you did!

Piercing the Shroud: Destabilizations of ‘Evil’

Piercing the Shroud: Destabilizations of ‘Evil’
Author: Rallie Murray
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2019-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004398155

As a catalyst to an ongoing destabilization of ‘evil’ within philosophical and political paradigms, this volume contains a collection of essays from different disciplines to address the question of ‘evil’.

Gothic

Gothic
Author: Fred Botting
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1996
Genre: Gothic revival (Literature)
ISBN: 1134788037

Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory, Fred Botting's Gothic is a clear and welcome introduction to the study of this compelling genre. This lucid, easy-to-follow guide: * Explains the transformations of the genre through history * Outlines all the major figures which define the genre, such as ghosts, monsters and vampires * Charts key texts over two centuries * Traces origins of the form * Looks at the cultural and historical location of gothic images and texts * Provides a succinct introduction to the field which is a.