Haunted House Research Paper

Any place can be haunted, which means that a haunted house can look as new as a hospital or as old as a cabin. “Oral tradition (especially stories told by adults) encompasses many other types of haunted houses—ranging from suburban, split-level ranch houses to fraternity houses to businesses and so on. This variety of setting is appropriate because oral tradition holds that any structure in which a ghost appears is thereby haunted.” (Grider 147). In the Haunting of Hill House, every character has a different perspective on Hill House. For example, Dr. Montague sees the house as a simple run-down family home, in the name of science he is trying to prove that the house has no real phenomena happening inside of it.

Hugh Crain built the beautiful Hill House eighty years ago as a home for his wife and daughter in the most distinct part of New England which turned out to be a death spot for his whole family in people’s opinion. Members of his family died due to their own internal affairs. Their death made Hill House a scary place. The Haunting of Hill House tells the frightening saga of socially reserved Eleanor Vance, who went to Hill House to participate in a research engaging paranormal activities. But the scariness of Hill House doesn’t approach in the appearance of spirit or vampires.

Devils tower, you hear it and automatically you think of a haunted house or a horror place. But actually no, Devils tower is a mystery. I mean it’s a complete mystery from how it formed to the legends that people say. Many people have different legends that have happened throughout time. Scientist on the other hand have many theories of how it was formed.

Abandoned houses are often the stage for ghost stories, and I think this is linked to the windows either smashed, boarded up or missing completely. It is in this alteration or absence that first makes you question habitation, who lived there, why did they leave or is there some ghostly spirit that remains in the void. In a subtler way Tom de Paor has manipulated the window in 12 Mountjoy parade to create a similar

In the first scene, the narrator comes to the house for the first time after years and he feels immediately insufferable. The representation of the setting, including the antique building and the depressing landscape is a foreshadowing sign for the spooky things that are going to happen inside the house (Walker 586). Already the first description of the house with attributes as “bleak” or “vacant eye-like” (Poe 3) and that it stands in the “shades of the evening” points to its desolateness and obscurity which is a frequent factor concerning the setting in the Gothic (Steven 54). According to David Stevens it is common in Gothic works that “the setting itself appears to be the main character and gives the novel a title” (Steven 55) as it is the case in The Fall of the House of Usher and the house serves as an indicator for a Gothic

However, it was also a time of short life spans and when Castiel stopped aging and he had to watch everyone he love die, he left his home and started to travel. It was when he picked up his love for fashion and also his reputation for being rather eccentric, even for a warlock. Like most warlocks, he was an enigmatic character, but unlike many others he has not set up a home in a large city. Magnus Bane was the High Warlock of Brooklyn, but also become invaluable to the Clave, while Malcolm Fade had set himself up in Los Angeles, but Castiel had always been a nomad. However, that all changed on a fateful day when he stumbled upon a bloody Shadowhunter, barely more than a child, and his younger brother.

Gotham is a city transformed eight years later when we catch up with it; criminality is at its lowest. The same however cannot be said of Bruce (Batman), he is a wreck. Nursing severe depression and dejection, he shut himself away as a loner in his house, having had enough of life. But why? Bruce turned into something out of the ordinary on the night of the murder of his parents, something hitherto unexperienced.

With the description of the setting, the reader can relate to the solitariness and sympathises with the protagonist, Conradin. The author describes Conradin surrounded by many windows which the reader relates to a haunted house and there the eerie atmosphere is created.

He was simply a worker for Teddy's family. In the story No Witchcraft for Sale, Lessing states, “A Big Doctor from the Big City, and he had come all way to see Gideon” (Pg. 1333). This shows that people from the upper class never usually even associated with people like Gideon. He was so shocked that a man from the city would come all the way just to see him.

How long had it been since it contained the wonderful smell of a family dinner? Against the dark night sky all anyone could see was the crumbling walls that were nothing more than ghostly traces of a once- lively house. Shawn, a scrawny, thin 15-year old had a bad feeling about this neighborhood ever since he moved back into the abandoned house with his older brother, Justin, and his mom, Sarah. Shawn had his family had lived here before, but after his father died, they barely had enough