Hill House Essay

Senior Vanessa L. is wearing a costume for this year’s Haunted Hallway. She shares about her experience; “I had so much fun scaring the middle schooler. Their reactions are priceless. Each one funnier than the last. I am really glad that for my last year at TFS I got to do something as cool as

Robbers had invaded their house and grandfather said it was not like that the other day when he came. That night the robbers came again and Mattie wasn’t sure what to do so she ran for it but was grab before she could escape. The robbers tied her up and her grandfather came walking down the stairs with a musket and fired off a round. After he had shot a robber jumped on top of him and Mattie grabbed a sword and slashed the sword through the robbers back and ran out of the house and Mattie chased him. When Mattie came back her grandfather was about to die. Mattie didn’t know where to go or who to go to and that’s when she found a little girl named Nell that had lost her mother in the fever. Mattie decided to take Nell and to keep looking for her Mother or Eliza and eventually she found Eliza and found out where her mother

Elyn Saks is a very accomplished woman. She has managed to become a published author and an esteemed college professor while suffering from schizophrenia. Her book, The Center Cannot Hold discusses her life as she fought and eventually managed her mental illness. Saks lived a normal childhood with caring parents, but she does recall having several phobias and obsessions when she was younger that were not healthy or normal in their longevity. As Saks matured, her schizophrenic episodes worsened. She recollects an episode in which at the age of 16 or 17 she randomly decided to leave school and walk home, and while she walked, the houses surrounding her suddenly began to appear “very ominous and foreboding”. She began to think that the houses

But Eliza insists that they go because she wants them to be safe and she can care for her mother by herself. So Mattie and her grandfather get in a wagon with another man who is going to a different town to be safe from the fever. But when they arrive at the gates of the new town grandfather starts coughing really bad and the guards at the gate will not let the enter because he might have the fever. So the man driving kicks Mattie and her Grandfather out of the wagon and they go into town. So Mattie and her grandfather start walking and soon they find a big tree to rest at. Grandfather falls asleep but mattie goes to get water. When she returns she falls asleep and dreams about her grandfather fighting in the war.When Mattie wakes up she is in the hospital. She asks a nurse how she got there and the woman said she was found ill and brought to the hospital, she got yellow fever but soon recovered. So Mattie and her grandfather return to their house but no one is there and windows were smashed and all there food was stolen. Mattie’s mother was not

In the foothills of the Putney Mountains located southwest of Charleston, West Virginia, is a little city, called Howardsville with a dark history. Ernest Cassidy, an elderly man lived in the two-story-house near the foothills was familiar with the myths, legends and lies, involving the city. The townspeople suspected him of being involved, but no one knew to what extent. The mysteries of Putney Mountain began years earlier when several strange and scary events happened and upset the residents of Howardsville leading to the legends, mysteries, and lies, which are still around to this day.

Imagine a 160 room house with only one person person living in it, and if the owner ever stopped building, she would die. This was the case for Sarah Winchester in San Jose California. The Winchester mystery house is a famous haunted mansion in California. Sarah Winchester was a lady who bought an unfinished farm house in 1884. There was a course upon the winchester family because they owned a gun company and the guns they made had taken too many lives.

In the article, "Army Apparitions," Alan Moore informs his audience about ghost stories that are related to the military. He talks about how paranormal activity has occurred at Fort Leavenworth (Military School). Also, Moore mentions a retired Military Officer named John Reichley, who doesn’t believe in ghosts, but has collected some of the ghost stories at Leavenworth. With that being said, in "Army Apparitions," Moore offers the perfect example of how paranormal activity results from a terrible death.

The Ministers Black Veil is about a man who is a minister. He, one day comes to mass wearing a black veil. The people in his mass were really freaked out and scared as to why he was wearing a black veil. The people in the small town wanted to know why he would wear such a thing in a church and on his face. Next, the minister went to a funeral and a superstitious woman said she saw him with the corpse. The minister was right above the corpse, the veil in between them. Apparently, the old superstitious women saw the corpses ghost shudder in the presence of Mr. Hooper, the minister. The whole town was gossiping about him and was scared of him so one day the people from the town decided that they will ask Mr. Hooper why he always wore that black

The name of the book is Wait till Helen comes. The author is Mary Downing Hahn.The book has 120 pages. The type of the Book is mystery and scary.

The section I have chosen to analyze is page 2242 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. In this section Mr. Enfield and Mr. Utterson and going on their typical Sunday walk, when they come upon a house in the neighborhood which draws their attention, the door specifically. Mr. Enfield states that he has a connection with that door via a strange story that he proceeds to tell.

The novel “The Haunting of Hill House,” written by Shirley Jackson, closely follows the traditional tropes of an American Gothic. The main character of the novel, Eleanor, begins her journey to self growth after accepting an offer to live in a suspected haunted house for the summer. Moreover, Eleanor meets three other people that have an important effect on her development as a person. These characters slowly begin to question their own sanity due to the house’s destructive nature. Jackson appeals to fans of the American gothic through her particular description of the house and how the characters interact with it in order to show the environments foil of an absolute reality.

In the movie the Dream House it is about a family who relocated from New York City to New England to be in a more quiet neighborhood. Craig is an author and a husband who has a wife and two little girls. Once they moved into the home they discovered that the home that they lived in had brutal murders, where the wife and kids were killed and the husband was the main suspect. The husband and wife felt as if they were being stalked by that killer and felt unsafe in their home. They 're was one incident when the mother kept calling the kids and the kids were not answering and, they were in a little secret part of the closet where they were able to see previous items of the two girls that were previously killed in the home, they were able to find letters and toys and even an engravement.

She sighed as she observed the primeval plantation house. Her parents had never been humble people, as they owned an abnormally large home, and an even larger waterfront summer house on the coast of eastern South Carolina. She was quite familiar with the house, as her parents used to drag her to it for months every summer for what they called a vacation, though she found it more like torture. That was years ago, back when her mother and father were both still together – and alive. Her mother had passed away nine years prior to alcohol poisoning and her father bit the dust less than seven days ago, of natural causes so they said, but the only thing Josephine was even remotely sad about was how old-fashioned the decor was. In her father’s will he had left the house to her, Josephine Hamilton, with only one request, or warning rather: It is a cautionary notice that the owner of the house does not under any circumstance make changes or alterations to the house. Though, the minute the house was under her name, she contacted every professional

Jewett’s story “The Foreigner” is considered to be a ghost story of her time but not the type of ghost story we have read in Jame’s “The Jolly Corner”. Unlike James’ ghost story that left the reader spooked at the ending, Jewett’s did not leave you with the same unsettling feeling. Jewett instead uses Mrs. Todd to represent the ghostly presence because of the way she tells her story of Mrs. Tolland. I felt more of a witchiness presence than a ghost story because of the characters connection to the supernatural, for example when we see Mrs. Todd walk in on Mrs. Tolland’s "fête day” a day where she honors a religious ritual to tell her that her husband has died, she starts to die herself. On Mrs. Tolland’s death bed, I realized that she is not

Empty streets surrounded the neighborhood. The sky roared and flashed. The room where she waited with patience for her mother to arrive from running errands, suddenly became dark. The screen of the TV turned off and her phone unfortunately ran out of battery. The house possessed no electricity. The silence of the new house made anxiety run through Allison’s body. The noise of the harsh wind hitting the door provoked chills to run up and down her spine. Allison had heard rumors of paranormal activity taking place at the new house, but Allison did not believe in such things as ghosts and spirits, until that day. The noise of dishes colliding came from the kitchen. Her heart rate raised by the second. Allison desperately started looking