Download or read book Poetics of the Paranormal written by Kevin Chabot and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appearance of ghosts in art and popular culture has transformed throughout history. From the undead corpse of the medieval tradition to the transparent forms of photographic film, to the infrared and thermal images that now populate reality television, the paranormal has literally changed shape over the centuries. In Poetics of the Paranormal Kevin Chabot articulates the idea of spectrality, demonstrating how the paranormal is far from a stable, metaphysical category: it is a dynamic and historically contingent discourse, the contours of which shift over time. Specific media, Chabot argues, present the ghost in distinct ways that emphasize the ghostly qualities of the medium and, conversely, the technological qualities of the ghost. Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon Slender Man, Chabot shows how the paranormal both shapes and is shaped by media. Exploring key historical shifts in contemporary media while providing a rich and novel theoretical framework, Poetics of the Paranormal addresses with renewed rigour the relationships between media, perception, temporality, and the elusive concept of the evidential.

Download or read book Paranormal Poetry written by Don Foxe and published by Caballus Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems by ghosts who haunt the South Carolina Lowcountry.The story of enticing them to appear.The history of the time and location, and why the specter remains after death.

Download or read book Paranormal Poetry written by Raymond Buckland and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of paranormal-themed poems by the author.

Download or read book Men Women and Ghosts written by Amy Lowell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men, Women and Ghosts" by Amy Lowell is a collection of poems that tap into Lowell's penchant for the imaginative. It contains: Patterns, Pickthorn Manor, The Cremona Violin, The Cross-Roads, A Roxbury Garden, 1777, The Fruit Shop, Malmaison, The Hammers, Two Travellers in the Place Vendome, The Allies, The Bombardment, Lead Soldiers, The Painter on Silk, A Ballad of Footmen, Reaping, Off the Turnpike, The Grocery, Number 3 on the Docket, Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening, The Paper Windmill, The Red Lacquer Music-Stand, Spring Day, The Dinner-Party, Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques", for String Quartet, and Towns in Colour.

Download or read book Paranormal Libido written by Jack Bowman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Description

Download or read book Peculiar Paranormal Poems written by Rebecca Williford and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-26 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you open up this small book, you will be pleased to find. Fifty Peculiar Paranormal Poems waiting inside. From ghosts and spirits, old houses, and more. This unique collection of poems, will never bore. The young to the old will enjoy these rhymes. So open it up and read a few lines! Some are pretty, cheerful, fun, and bright. While others you won't want to read, before you turn out the lights!

Download or read book Peculiar Paranormal Poems written by Rebecca June Williford and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you open up this small book, you will be pleased to find. Fifty Peculiar Paranormal Poems waiting inside. From ghosts and spirits, old houses, and more. This unique collection of poems, will never bore. The young to the old will enjoy the rhymes. So open it up and read a few lines! Some are pretty, cheerful, and bright. While others you won't want to read, before you turn out the lights!

Download or read book The Phantoms of a Thousand Hours written by John Richard Rooney and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading a ghostly company of lyric and epic poetry, treatises on aesthetics and poetics, manuals of technical prosody, and works of occult speculation across one and a half centuries, "The Phantoms of a Thousand Hours" argues that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets and poetic theorists seize on the ghost as the inchoate form of poetry itself. Beginning in the pious meditations of the eighteenth-century "Graveyard School," these writers spectralize the operations of the poem and fashion poetic structures into chambers of vigil where the ghost might be awaited and encountered. Alive to the recursive directions of contemporary historical poetics, this study challenges the emerging scholarly consensus on the ghost in the long nineteenth century as either a creature of fiction, born almost coeval with the novel in the work of Defoe, or a residual form, a remainder from folklore and oral balladry that glides uncertainly into Gothic's set dressing. Rather, just as poets envisioned their craft as instinct with ghostly measures, rhythms, and pauses, occult writers from antiquaries to Spiritualists substantialized and realized the ghost through the opaque lyricism and manifest technique of poetry. Accepting neoformalism's sound insistence on the historicity of form itself, my work nonetheless eschews New Formalism's frequent dismissal of the specter from the spectral: even the most evanescent, technical traces of the ghost in the poetry of the long nineteenth century recall and reflect living structures of preternatural belief and occult vision. Like Shelley in his "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," these poets "sought for ghosts," and, if they were "not heard" and "saw them not," they could yet take solace in "the phantoms of a thousand hours," of the myriad ideal visions of poetry's ghosts across a long Graveyard Century. Across the Graveyard Century spanning from Thomas Gray to Thomas Hardy, this study argues that the ghost haunts poetry's sense of its own form precisely because poetry's labors of defining itself, through poetics, through technical prosody, and through its affinities of spirit with the occult, are, like the labors of the ghost itself, fated to end unfulfilled. As each a form of unfinished life, neither the nineteenth century's poetry nor the nineteenth century's ghost is ever wholly read by living eyes.

Download or read book We Are Not Alone written by Paul Cookson and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frightening s written by Melanie Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frightening's: Paranormal Poetry reveals a peek into the experiences and life of an empathic sensitive. These freaky but true stories helped bend and shape me into the open and understanding person I am today. I don't claim to be a psychic by any means, just a mostly normal female with a few extra glitches. The paranormal experiences detailed here showcase the journey from childhood to adult presented in chronological order. Gradually opening up to the other side, the occurrences became more frequent and intense. From a young age I was taught to repress odd things, pretending they did not exist. I eventually learned to acknowledge what I was feeling, hearing and seeing. Embracing my abilities instead of hiding from them. Black and photographs are included. Spirit box conversation transcriptions and a handful of pertinent dreams as well. Enjoy!

Download or read book Dreams of Fear written by S. T. Joshi and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tradition of weird poetry is one that stretches back for millennia, to the earliest literary expression of the human race. In this new volume-the first comprehensive historical anthology of weird, horrific, and supernatural poetry in more than 50 years-the editors have rightly begun their survey of weirdness in verse with Homer's "Odyssey," proceeding through Greek, Latin, and medieval verse to such towering poets of English and American literature as Coleridge, Shelley, Poe, Tennyson, and Longfellow. With the dawn of the 20th century, such leaders of horrific prose as H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei, and Robert E. Howard came to the fore. Our own day has seen a remarkable resurgence in weird poetry, and such poets as Richard L. Tierney, Bruce Boston, W. H. Pugmire, and Ann K. Schwader have added to a legacy that stretches back to the dawn of time. The editors have added brief biographical notes on all the poets included, along with bibliographical information on the poems. This volume will become the standard edition of weird poetry for decades to come. S. T. Joshi is the author of "Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction" (2012) and many other works of criticism and scholarship. Steven J. Mariconda is the author of many essays on H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, and other writers of weird fiction.

Download or read book Tales of Terror The Supernatural Poem Since 1800 written by Brett Rutherford and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil never dies, and neither do the poets who dwell in the shadowland of Gothic gloom and supernatural horror. This treasury of supernatural-themed poems is a supplement to Brett Rutherford's anthology series, Tales of Terror. Inspired by Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon chronicles, the medieval tale of a bad bishop eaten by rats, the lore of the shape-shifter incubus known as Puck, the German ghost-ballad of "Lenore," and the vision of a frenzied witches' sabbath, Gothic poets have mined mythology and history to clothe ancient terrors in new language. The 96 poems selected for this anthology come from the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Peru, and Colombia. Treasures to be found in this volume include the tale of Siegfried and the dragon, a succubus in a World War I battlefield, The Grim Reaper's Dance of Death, alluring and fatal cemetery specters, and an avenging revenant - plus ghosts, witches, vampires, were-ravens and dreads that cannot be named. Among the 41 writers featured are Goethe, Rossetti, Hugo, Gautier, Cawein, Holland, Longfellow, Kipling, Southey, Marquis, Browning, Rutherford, Todhunter, Vanderbeck, and Wagner. Highlights include the translation of Bürger's "Lenore" made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti at age 16; new translations of classic French poems of terror by Gautier and Hugo; poems based on the "Dance of Death" engravings of Hans Holbein; a selection of supernatural poems by Madison Cawein, "the American Keats;" newly rediscovered poems by American Gothic great Barbara A. Holland; selections another nearly-forgotten poet, Fannie Stearns Davis; and new translations of landmark dark poems from 19th-century Spain and Latin America. For the poetry lover, and for the fan of supernatural literature, this book is a year-round Halloween treat of entertaining and alarming poems to read aloud - bedtime stories for very bad children. For the scholar of the Gothic, it supplements the huge collection already assembled in the four preceding volumes of Tales of Wonder and Tales of Terror. The book also includes a cumulative index and bibliography for the entire series.

Download or read book Breathing Darkness written by Matt Bialer and published by JournalStone. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous for his long poems exploring the paranormal, the weird, the unexplained, and what makes us human, Matt Bialer turns his poetic talents to the urban legend of the Shadow People. Pat is a cyber-security expert at a software start-up called InterFaze, which was acquired by a Saudi Arabian prince. The prince wants to launch this revolutionary image and face recognition software called FazeLift at a major hacker convention in Las Vegas. Pat must launch the vital cyber-security software called The Dome before the conference, as the prince wants to maximize its publicity. Meanwhile, at home, Pat’s ten-year-old son, Jared, keeps waking in the middle of the night screaming, saying a tall being in a long black coat and fedora hat is watching him. His younger son, Max, is also seeing this figure; this man made of darkness. When Pat learns that what his sons are seeing is true, that they’re being visited by entities known as the Shadow People, he takes an unexpected trip to Saudi Arabia for answers, and in turn, confronts his deepest fears.

Download or read book Tales of Terror written by Brett Rutherford and published by Yogh & Thorn Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated edition of 65 memorable supernatural-themed poems is a modern sequel to Matthew Gregory Lewis's famous 1801 poetry anthology, Tales of Wonder. Treasures in this volume include two translations of scenes from Goethe's Faust by Coleridge and Shelley; supernatural verses and ballads gleaned from Sir Walter Scott's Waverly novels; Shelley's supernatural poems, both juvenile and mature; Longfellow sharing ghost stories from The Song of Hiawatha, and fierce legends from Norse myth and history; all of the overtly supernatural poems of Edgar Allan Poe; Robert Browning's famed "Pied Piper of Hamelin"; Christina Rossetti's delicious "Goblin Market"; and a feast of shuddery French, Russian, and German poems in translation from Hugo, Heine, Gautier, Baudelaire, Pushkin and Sologub. For the poetry lover, and the fan of supernatural literature, this book is a year-round Halloween treat of entertaining and alarming poems to read aloud - bedtime stories for very bad children. For the scholar of the Gothic, the volume presents an intriguing array of poems that range from overtly entertaining Gothic narratives, to works that employ the devices of the Gothic for other ends, social, political or personal. The book also includes an annotated bibliography of source materials on the supernatural and Gothic in poetry.

Download or read book In Sunshine and in Shadow Collection 2 written by Dennis W. Carroll and published by Paralina Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very nature of the Supernatural and the Paranormal is to hide from us. Therefore it thrives on darkness and shadows...it is very often like a landscape looked upon on the darkest of nights, dim and unseen. But if we look long into those shadows, soon it will reveal its secrets to us. We then experience its mystery and allure first hand. Our spirits and our minds are satisfied for awhile, with trying to learn its secrets and add them if possible to our knowledge. Then we are in a strange way touched by the darkness in a far more different way than sunlight, which without, we cannot live. But shadow too has its beauty as well, which in many ways, enriches and enhances our lives. So it is then that the mysterious and unknown things of this world, add the true spice of life, to our existence...

Download or read book Mi Word Spell Check It Out written by Lil’Prince and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a universe of wonders and curiosities, in this age of Aquarius, comes a book from stars all of my own and of your ownmessages of love, confusion, and insanities. As Michael Jackson sang, There is kick in the phones. More accurately, it means angels communicating to us by paranormal means. This is a book of such medium messages.

Download or read book The Ghost of Meter written by Annie Finch and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse provides a new strategy for interpreting the ways in which metrical patterns contribute to the meaning of poems. Annie Finch puts forth the theory of "the metrical code", a way of tracing the changing cultural connotations of metered verse, especially iambic pentameter. By applying the code to specific poems, the author is able to analyze a writer's relation to literary history and to trace the evolution of modern and contemporary poetries from the forms that preceded them. The introduction offers a thorough survey of ideas about meter and meaning from the ancient Greeks to the present, tracing the changing role of meter in poetic theory. Subsequent chapters treat the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, and T. S. Eliot, who wrote during a crucial period in American poetry, the transition from nineteenth- to twentieth-century poetics. A final chapter illustrates developments in the metrical code during the contemporary period, with readings of poems by Audre Lorde, Anne Sexton, and Charles Wright. The author's theory is informed by the work of Roland Barthes, the Russian Formalists, and feminist literary theory. Her account of nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetics relies on extensive primary research in prosodic theory and analyzes many of these texts for the first time. Annie Finch is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Prosody, University of Northern Iowa.