Haunted house

The Winchester Mystery House is one of California's most interesting attractions. Rumors say the owner built the house to confuse evil spirits and appease pleasant spirits. During the 1900's it was estimated to cost five million dollars to construct but no one knows the true value of the house today. You can now tour the house and decide for yourself if the house is truly haunted. Sarah Winchester was married to William Winchester; son of the inventor of the repeating rifle. The couple lost…

hurried through the streets, her lantern held high. The light was dim since Ginny had forgotten to relight the candle. Ginny stepped carefully, not knowing what could come out of the darkness. Ginny had had a harder time than usual getting out of the house. She had tripped over something on her way out, resulting in a loud clang. She had…

Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House depicts the tale of four strangers in a dark secluded house called Hill House. One important character is Eleanor Vance, the improbable protagonist of this novel. Throughout the novel we see instances of her deteriorating mental stability through her childish behavior, her insecurities, her over active imagination, and her “connection” to the house, all of which lead to her unfortunate death. From the very start we see Eleanor as childish. We…

Ghost of the sadist John sage: Obviously you can imagine the chamber will be haunted in future no surprise there. The infamous notorious torturer John sage's pathetic ghost haunts there. John sage was the most dangerous and sadist torturer in the Chillingham torture chamber. The psycho ill maniac John Sage tortured more than 7500 people in three years most of them are Scottish. He took great pleasure while he applied different techniques to produce enormous pain and fear for the prisoners. He…

instantly ejected any pressure in the room. Her presence would’ve even made an angry person hopeful. Withered by time, the plethora of thin liable cracks scattered across the olive-dyed floors and indigo walls with an antique circular pattern ; this house was old enough to live in a pangea . However, there was a skeptical sense of suspicion of this person. Even though she was an aesthetically pleasing model on the front page of a magazine, she carried a repugnant air of deviousness that…

Now, my dad had seen the house before but my mom and I have not so I’m a little worried. I loved my old house and I was afraid the new house wasn’t going to be as nice. I was right to be worried. When we pulled up to the house, I thought we were at the wrong place. I thought to myself who would live in this dump of a home. Turns out I would. I'm not trying to sound ungrateful or spoiled or anything but this place was falling apart. I remember comparing it to a haunted house when I first got…

insanity meld their mental illnesses to the environment around them. Within the world of horror novels such a break from reality could certainly be hastened by a malevolent antagonist. In The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson the protagonist, Eleanor, begins to form an attachment to the haunted mansion in the wake of her mother’s death. Between her mother that required constant care and her less that compassionate sister Eleanor is left less than what one could consider proper mental…

The Big Move After what felt like a lifetime of planning, our family was finally making the big move from New York to Texas. The house we lived in was my childhood home and my husband and I shared it for fifteen years together. This was not going to be an easy task. Our first hurdle was preparing for this huge adventure. Secondly, we needed to drive both cars down. That meant that we would not have the other person to take over driving when our eyelids became as heavy as weights over our…

always go to relax and get the stress of my mind, and that would be my humble abode, my home. Because I walked to school on a regular basis, I always knew where to go, even during the renovations. I mean, I could never miss the area, a light blue house right across the street from a Kraft factory. The front yard had a very large pine tree in the front yard, the bottom half full of life and the top bared to nothing but twigs and death. The front porch was white…

This selection was written to describe the conditions of tenement houses, overcrowded slums that filled New York City during the late 1900’s. The first sentence of this selection states, “The first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered.” The author means that tenement houses were “cursed,” or were terrible creations from the very beginning, but this was ignored and not tended to…