Download or read book Haunted Reflections written by Drac Von Stoller and published by Drac Von Stoller. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keen family had always been outcasts, living on the fringes of society in a ramshackle cabin deep in the woods. Elijah Keen, a towering man with a perpetual scowl etched into his weathered face, worked sporadically as a logger when his drinking didn't interfere. His wife, Meredith, was a wisp of a woman, her once-vibrant spirit crushed under the weight of Elijah's fists and her own addiction to prescription pills. Their sons, Ed and Bubba, grew up in a world of shadows and silence, learning early on that the safest course was to make themselves invisible. They became experts at reading the signs-the slight tremor in their father's hands that signaled an impending rage, the glassy look in their mother's eyes that meant she'd retreated into her pharmaceutical haze. The night of their parents' death began like so many others-with the acrid smell of cheap whiskey and the sound of breaking glass. But there was something different in the air, a tension that crackled like electricity before a storm. "You think you're better than me, don't you?" Elijah's voice boomed through the cabin, slurred but no less menacing. Meredith's laugh was hollow, devoid of any real mirth. "Better? We're both in this hellhole together, aren't we?" The boys, huddled in their shared bedroom, exchanged glances. This wasn't the usual script. Their mother rarely fought back. "You want out?" Elijah's voice dropped to a dangerous growl. "I'll give you a way out." The sound of a drawer being yanked open made Ed's blood run cold. He knew what was in that drawer-their father's prized possessions, a pair of antique revolvers passed down through generations of Keens. "Elijah, what are you doing?" Meredith's voice held a note of fear now. "We're gonna play a game, Mer. Winner takes all." Ed and Bubba crept to their bedroom door, cracking it open just enough to peer into the dimly lit living room. Their father stood swaying, a revolver in each hand. Their mother sat on the threadbare couch, her eyes wide with a mix of terror and drug-induced confusion. "Pick one," Elijah said, holding out the guns. Meredith's hand trembled as she reached for the revolver on the left. Elijah's lips curved into a cruel smile as he kept the other for himself. "Now, we each take a turn. If you're so eager to leave me, here's your chance." What happened next seemed to unfold in slow motion. Meredith, her eyes suddenly clear and filled with a lifetime of pain and resentment, raised the gun to her temple. The boys wanted to scream, to run out and stop her, but fear kept them rooted to the spot. The click of the hammer echoed in the silence. Meredith pulled the trigger. The gun roared, and a spray of crimson painted the wall behind her. Her body crumpled to the floor like a marionette with its strings cut. Elijah stood frozen, his face a mask of shock. Then, as if moved by some unseen force, he raised his own gun. "No!" Ed's scream came too late. The second shot was somehow louder than the first. Elijah's massive frame toppled backward, crashing through the rickety coffee table. The silence that followed was deafening. The acrid smell of gunpowder mixed with the metallic tang of blood, creating a nauseating cocktail that would haunt the boys' nightmares for years to come. Slowly, as if in a trance, Ed and Bubba emerged from their room. The scene before them was like something out of a horror movie-their parents' bodies sprawled in grotesque poses, blood pooling on the worn floorboards. Bubba was the first to break. He fell to his knees, retching violently. Ed stood paralyzed, his mind refusing to process the carnage before him. As the initial shock began to wear off, a new, terrifying reality set in. They were alone now, truly alone in a world that had never shown them much kindness. And they had two bodies to deal with.

Download or read book Alibis written by André Aciman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Alibis reminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.

Download or read book Haunted Reflections 2 written by Andrew Wilding and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning, a scarecrow made his own history, like a symbol that everyone sees year-around (like Halloween) placed in the middle of surrounding pumpkins and flames all around but never hurting the scarecrow. At the end, two different species-a goblin and a troll-made their own history as well. Keeping the scarecrow strong and their willpower intact, so nobody can erase all three of their history, in which no one can change.

Download or read book Ghosts Reflections written by Jodie Leigh Setran and published by Ghost Lady Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Echoing Ghost Stories written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, ghost stories were part of an oral tradition, often involving a storyteller reciting the spooky tale before a fire on a chilly winter night. During the 1800s, as magazine production and literacy became more widespread, reading ghost stories rose in popularity. However, many authors attempted to preserve on paper the experience of listening to an account of the supernatural. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary E. Wilkins, E. Nesbit, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, M.R. James, and many others put their creative stamps on this distinctive tradition. Echoing Ghost Stories: Literary Reflections of Oral Tradition showcases such tales, establishing their fascinating place within the wider genre of the Victorian ghost story.

Download or read book Ghost in the Mirror written by Leslie Rule and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether they are bumping about our attics, hitchhiking on a moonlight road, or fraternizing with our reflections, ghosts tantalize us with their secrets." --Leslie Rule Meet Leslie Rule-America's real-life ghost hunter with a penchant for sharing authentic, spine-tingling stories of the paranormal. The Gallup Organization reports that more than 32 percent of Americans have seen a ghost. More than half the population believes in the spiritual, cosmic, or supernatural. To Leslie Rule, such revelations come as no surprise. Rule has spent more than a decade researching specters and spirits and has chronicled her ghostly tales in three previous titles, Coast to Coast Ghosts, Ghosts Among Us, and When the Ghost Screams. Inside Ghost in the Mirror, Rule documents more than dozens of stories of paranormal apparitions that reveal themselves on the other side of the looking glass. Rule's painstaking archival research presents factual clues to each haunting, along with her own dramatic black-and-white photographs that capture the eerie unrest of the scenes she explores.

Download or read book Dark Reflections written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of a homosexual African-American poet. Beautifully written in reverse chronological order, the story offers moving meditations on loneliness and sexual repression.

Download or read book Haunted written by Aurelia Evans and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arcanium's fun and games until someone takes it all away. Neve's getting into the creepy, sexy spirit of demon hands in inappropriate places—claws, teeth and an incubus who agrees to just date for a while. Despite her initial trepidation, the dark circus of Arcanium is growing on her. But Arcanium's a slice of heaven meant to be a hell, and a demon sneakier and more powerful than Bell Madoc slithers into the circus with his eye fixed on Neve for his own. When he tears everything away from Bell, leaving him weak in the wake, the entire cast and crew land in a new Arcanium with a new Master who has much darker intentions for its inhabitants. A stadium with glass rooms for display... Leather and metal stained with blood... A horde of monsters who have been waiting for Arcanium to fall... And a red-skinned, black-hearted demon who lusts for his new pet's pleasure and pain...

Download or read book Haunted Reflections written by Andrew Wilding and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning, a scarecrow made his own history, like a symbol that everyone sees year-around (like Halloween) placed in the middle of surrounding pumpkins and flames all around but never hurting the scarecrow. At the end, two different species-a goblin and a troll-made their own history as well. Keeping the scarecrow strong and their willpower intact, so nobody can erase all three of their history, in which no one can change.

Download or read book Haunted Reflections 4 written by Andrew Wilding and published by Martin and Bowman. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With power and status at her command..........still not happy and even sadder than before. But from within sleeps a hidden power that even she does not know at all. The same thing with three other different species out there wondering out into the wild who does not know what is in store for them, including this queen dressed in black-Earth, Fire, Wind and Water-is a question of which element will replace her color?

Download or read book Haunted Houses written by Corinne May Botz and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When I was between the ages of five and eight, my sister and I slept in a large attic bedroom. At nightfall the room was filled with gypsies who glided around in clusters. They wore colorful thin flowing dresses and rummaged greedily through my drawers and books as if they would steal everything. I lay in bed as stiff as a board, trying to will myself invisible, praying they would not notice me looking . . . Daylight obliterated the gypsies, rendering them as thoroughly insubstantial as they had been real in the dark. I had a vague understanding that my vision was private, so I never told my family what I saw.” So began Corinne May Botz’s fascination with the invisible, a phenomenon that has profoundly influenced her approach to photography in style and subject matter. For more than ten years, she searched for ghost stories in buildings across the United States. She ventured into these haunted places with both camera and tape recorder in hand; her photographs, accompanied by first-person narratives, reveal a rare glimpse into American interiors, both physical and psychological. This book includes more than eighty haunted buildings, from the legendary to the ordinary, including Edgar Allan Poe’s house in Baltimore, a New Jersey tavern, and a Massachusetts farmhouse, a log cabin in Kentucky, and a number of private residences. The text includes ghost stories told to the author by those who lived through the moving rugs, creaking floors, apparitions, disappearing—and reappearing—objects, cries in the night, mysteriously burning candles, and other unexplained occurrences.

Download or read book Haunted Reflections 3 written by Andrew Wilding and published by Haunted Reflections. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-three stones engraved with a message that only one poor looking, walking soul can interpret their true meaning what life is all about based on her knowledge. To release each stone is by defeating each guardian which she had in place for protecting them. Why free each stone? To let the whole world know she is not the only one out there who is alone and afraid. Let's go for a walk, shall we?

Download or read book Whispers from the Shadows Tales of Haunting written by Ayush Agarwal and published by Portraitthought . This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the pages of “Whispers from the Shadows,” Ayush Agarwal crafts a mesmerizing collection of haunting tales that invite readers into a world where the line between the living and the spectral blurs. This anthology explores the mysterious, the supernatural, and the eerie beauty found in the unseen corners of existence.

Download or read book Season of Glad Songs written by Tessa Bielecki and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a quiet Advent sitting beside a crackling fire preparing for a festive and sacred Twelve Days of Christmas. The authors take you there and beyond. There's something for everyone: young or old, whether you go to church or not. The tone is mystical and down-to-earth. Poetry, illustrations and essays, rituals and blessings, prayers and practical advice, even book, music and movie reviews help you celebrate a soulful season of glad songs, from the dark stillness of Advent through Christmas, the New Year and Epiphany, on to the welcome light of a candle on a cold February night.

Download or read book The Handmaid s Tale written by Margaret Atwood and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

Download or read book Haunted Narratives written by Gabriele Rippl and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting presence of the past in the present. The contributors focus on the psychological, ethical, and representational difficulties involved in narrative negotiations of traumatic memories. Haunted Narratives focuses on life writing in the broadest sense of the term: biographies and autobiographies that deal with traumatic experiences, autobiographically inspired fictions on loss and trauma, and limit-cases that transcend clear-cut distinctions between the factual and the fictional. In discussing texts as diverse as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Vikram Seth's Two Lives, deportation narratives of Baltic women, Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni, the contributors add significantly to current debates on life writing, trauma, and memory; the contested notion of “cultural trauma”; and the transferability of clinical-psychological notions to the study of literature and culture.

Download or read book Index of Haunted Houses written by Adam O. Davis and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet we gradually become aware of their presence the way spirits in haunted houses trod over creaky floors, slam doors, and issue sudden gusts of wind. The poems are Koan-like—the fewer the words, the more charged they are. The engine driving this sense of haunting and loss is money, which Davis describes as “federal bone” boiling around us. Bison in Nebraska are reduced to bones, “seven/standing men/tall” fodder for the fertilizer used by farmers in the 1800s. Though they often specify dates, there’s an equality to the hauntings—every instance has its moment, and persists, despite being in the past, present, or future. If there really was a 1980 or 1848 or 1499, Davis implies it is somewhere. Index of Haunted Houses is spooky and sad—a stunning debut, one that will surprise, convince, and most of all, delight.