Ghost story

windows, and distant conversations. Only when the feeble narrator steps out of bed to light a lamp and peek, is he confronted by the Cardiff Giant ghost. The narrator lost all fear instilled in him and began to chat with the Cardiff Giant. The conflict arrives when the ghost explains his reason for coming over, and turns out the Giant had been fooled. The ghost has been haunting in efforts to get his body to be buried again, only to discover that he has been haunting a fake of the Giant, which…

asking for money, a woman rushing past you in the airport, but you have no clue who they are, what they do. They all have their own stories, their own lives, and we only get a 5-second glance into those stories. Take into consideration that there are 86,400 seconds in a day, and you’re a part of 5 of those seconds. This interaction is near to insignificant. The stories of these people are what I’m interested in… so, here a few of them are. Tegan wakes up at 5:30 am every morning. She attends…

true. The story of how a wealthy family was killed and how the killer was never found. Maybe the killer was that good at covering up his tracks or because maybe the killer wasn’t human and couldn’t be caught. Maybe the killer is still lurking in the house, waiting for his next victim. Every day, Sarah would walk to school and past the creepy house on the end of her street. She never feared the house. In fact, she was drawn by fascination of the house. She always wonder if the silly stories…

Freudian Reading of The Turn of the Screw.” The two disagree mainly on how the Governess perceives the ghost and rather they are more a figment of her imagination or an actual real entity touched by more than just the Governess(comma) and each use textual evidence and common scientific knowledge of the day to prove their point. When reading the text on close analysis and James own feelings on the story it becomes clear that this is not a case of mental break…

Ghost Story Turned Comedy? A cloud of debate surrounds a well-known and controversial story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper is most commonly placed in either the mystery or thriller genres. However, what if some events of the story were altered to present a comical overtone? When read the first time, The Yellow Wallpaper has such bizarre qualities it is difficult to not focus on the sheer absurdity of the story’s events, which could easily be transformed into outrageous acts of…

The Lidke Ghost On a cloudy Friday night Phito, and his wife, Carla was working late at Lidke Mill. But it wasn’t just Phito and Carla there, but, Carla noticed something shiny and moving down by the river. So without telling Phito she walked down by the river to see what it was. On her way down to the river, she saw that the thing wasn’t there anymore so she went back to her husband. The next Friday it was the same way as last time, it was very cloudy. But this time there were someone named…

the reader is pulled in two directions as he or she must decide for himself or herself if the ghosts are simply projections of the governess’ unconscious or if they are truly haunting both Miles and Flora. These two differing viewpoints are a direct result of James’ use of ambiguity of the text. James’ story then changes from a simple ghost story about a governess, two ghosts, and two children to a story filled with ambiguity and questions, which contribute to the overall uneasy, eerie, and…

In Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the reader is pulled in two directions as he or she decides for himself or herself if the ghosts are projections of the governess’ unconscious or if they are truly haunting both Miles and Flora. These two differing viewpoints are a direct result of James’ use of ambiguity of the text, which contribute to the overall eerie and uncanny feeling produced. The development of the uncanny and use of ambiguity within the text opens up a new perspective of the text…

There is a place where you can go. There is a place where the wind whispers wonders Of long ago. There is a place where the Meadowlark still sings. I know this place for long ago... There I walked with... The Ghost of Medicine Crow Shamus curried his horse beneath the huge cottonwood shade tree near his home on the Montana Indian reservation. At 10 years old, Shamus had become a good horseman and responsible owner of his brown quarter horse gelding, Two-Gun. Often…

The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, is ghost story that focuses on a young governess that encounters a pair of ghosts. She becomes convinced that the ghosts are somehow corrupting the two children she is charged with caring for. The new governess is enamored with the two children, and when she first meets them, she comes to the conclusion that they are perfect children (and can do no wrong). Her changing emotional states cause her to later suspect that the children are not necessarily perfect…