The Haunting of Hill House

People create beliefs founded on irrational feelings that do not have fact or reason to support them. For example, in “The Haunting” directed by Robert Wise, Eleanor, the main character throws salt over her shoulders instead of confronting what’s truly going on within the walls of Hill House. Moreover, in the stories, religious practices are presented analogously by the tradition. In Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery”, young children learn about the lottery…

novel. Structures such as castles, big houses and monasteries are fundamental aspects that are continually present in Gothic novels, and form a basis that allow its characters to flourish. These constructions are continually prevalent in Gothic writing, as according to Anthony Roche, they regularly appear in all work over two centuries of Gothic scripture (“The Big House in Ireland: Reality and Representation by Jacqueline Genet; Ancestral Voices: The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature by Otto…

scenes, slows creating tension, bringing the viewer in closer. This film is more than a psychological supernatural thriller; it can be described as a puzzlingly heartbreaking poem in action. The aesthetic beauty that the film has adds character to the house and the film…

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a talented and successful architect and designer in the 19th and 20th century who worked in Glasgow and is best known for several remaining creations within the city. Recognized as the father of “Glasgow Style” which created and inspired a new approach to architecture. Born in 1868 on June 7th, Charles Mackintosh studied art and design where he was interested in drawing programmes at the Glasgow School of Art as well as trained as an architecture under John…

pans out over the shoulder of Kim when she is in her elder years. This has already told us that something happened with the castle and Kim in the past. As the scene moves on to re-tell the story, an establishing shot over the suburban pastel coloured houses up to the castle is made. This gives the audience an idea of the setting of where the story will be taking place. There is one scene where Peg is trying to put make up on Edwards face to cover his scars, where the camera is placed where…

Twist: A distant relative of the fabled Captain MacBride discovered a secret room yesterday afternoon in a Whodunit Hill mansion. Mr. David Shaw says, “I broke down one of the walls in the home and found a skeleton in a wooden coffin.” Mr. Shaw later determined the bones to be the wife of the fabled Captain MacBride. I asked him if anything unusual happened.…

and are, “…completely removed from the stir of society,” (Wuthering Heights, pg. 1). These houses could not be further from being alike however. The characteristics, as well as the characters and the level of class, show the differences very clearly. The location and exterior are the first differences between the houses. Wuthering heights is extremely gloomy and rugged looking. It is set on top of a hill, and has,”…Grotesque carvings displaying a wilderness of crumbling griffins,” (Heights,…

immersing readers into the story. This story is set in the desert plains town of Las Pasturas, New Mexico during the 1940s, around World War II. The main character, Antonio, lives with his mother, father, and two sisters, Deborah and Theresa, in a house in the llano, the open plain. When Antonio is almost seven years old, his mother and father send for the curandera, Ultima, to come and live with them, as she has helped their family throughout the years and they are obligated to give back to her…

Chapter One Thornewood Hall There are two types of people in Whodunit Hill: the sincere and the shady. So when Miss Sims, a checker at the Root & Shoot greengrocer thought she saw a ghost in front of Thornewood Hall I didn’t know what to believe. But I figured her claim had to be considered. Anyway, that was what got me into this pickle in the first place. By pickle, I mean the fact that I’m staring at the ghoul as it flashes blue in a tangled sea of tattered sheers. The drapes dropped to the…

Prologue Moments Before Most detectives follow a trail of clues to solve a case, but sometimes the clues just don’t make sense. Like when a ghost runs through the thickets in sneakers, or when strange men start dashing out from behind trees to inspect a house being torn down. And what does a magical stone lying next to a skeleton dressed in night clothes have to do with a dragon? Anyway, it turned out the leads weren’t red herrings at all. There was a ghoul, a missing stone, a kidnapped kid, an…