The Literary Haunted House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Literary Haunted House write by Rebecca Janicker. This book was released on 2015-01-09. The Literary Haunted House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The haunted house of American fiction is an iconic union of setting and theme with an enduring presence in popular culture that traces its lineage to the early English Gothic novels. Blurring the boundaries between past and present, the living and the dead, the haunted house--synonymous with the dark side of domesticity--challenges accepted notions of reality and wields a special power over the reader's imagination. Focusing on the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson and Stephen King, this critical work offers a fresh perspective on one of the most popular motifs in American fiction. Case studies demonstrate how these authors have kept the past alive while highlighting the complexities of modern society, using their ghostly tales to celebrate and challenge 20th century American history and culture.
The House Next Door
The House Next Door - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The House Next Door write by Anne Rivers Siddons. This book was released on 2007-07-03. The House Next Door available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by an all-pervasive evil, and the couple watches as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves.
American Nightmares
American Nightmares - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Nightmares write by Dale Bailey. This book was released on 2011-06. American Nightmares available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition that has assumed a lasting role in American culture. “The House of Usher” and its literary progeny have not lacked for tenants in the century and a half since: writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Stephen King have taken rooms in the haunted houses of American fiction. Dale Bailey traces the haunted house tale from its origins in English gothic fiction to the paperback potboilers of the present, highlighting the unique significance of the house in the domestic, economic, and social ideologies of our nation. The author concludes that the haunted house has become a powerful and profoundly subversive symbol of everything that has gone nightmarishly awry in the American Dream.
The Haunted House
The Haunted House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Haunted House write by Charles Dickens. This book was released on 1869. The Haunted House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Hotel Neversink
The Hotel Neversink - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hotel Neversink write by Adam O'Fallon Price. This book was released on 2019-08-06. The Hotel Neversink available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A 2020 Edgar Award Winner! "A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen King's Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." —Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears. This mysterious vanishing—and the ones that follow—will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion. His daughter Jeanie sees the Hotel Neversink into its most lucrative era, but also its darkest. Decades later, Asher's grandchildren grapple with the family’s heritage in their own ways: Len fights to keep the failing, dilapidated hotel alive, and Alice sets out to finally uncover the murderer’s identity. Told by an unforgettable chorus of Sikorsky family members—a matriarch, a hotel maid, a traveling comedian, the hotel detective, and many others—The Hotel Neversink is the gripping portrait of a Jewish family in the Catskills over the course of a century. With an unerring eye and with prose both comic and tragic, Adam O’Fallon-Price details one man’s struggle for greatness, no matter the cost, and a long-held family secret that threatens to undo it all.
