“That summer the strangest things began to happen in the rear of the house,” John said. “Doors and windows began to slam. I’d go back there because I thought someone had come in.” Upon inspection though, he would discover the screen door and windows were securely latched from the inside. “There was no way anyone could go out and relatch the door or windows,” John said. One of the more unnerving occurrences even stood his friends’ hair on end. When his friends hung out in the kitchen, which is located in the rear of the house, their cigarettes would mysteriously snuff out. This happened on numerous occasions, but never in the front portion of the house. “I was scared to death of that bedroom, “said john of the room from which most of the spooky happenings seem to take place. That room, which had a window to the kitchen, happened to be his late grandfather’s bedroom and the room in which he died of natural causes 16 years…
In this story the setting, especially the time and the atmosphere plays an important role, it takes place on a silent evening that makes it creepier and Vera ingeniously takes full advantage of her surrounding to deceive Nuttel.…
Nancy Ewalt was supposed to go to church with the Clutters. She goes to the door knocks, but no one answers. Nancy Ewalt tries all of doors, but no one answers. Nancy Ewalt is with her father, together they decide to go to Susan Kidwell to see if she knows anything. Susan does not know anything and thinks it’s strange that the Clutters would not answer their door.…
Centuries after, she heard the strange man saying: “Death by misadventure, I’m inclined to believe. Let’s go up and have another look at that window.”…
The way McAvoy writes, her sentences are short and to the point, yet intriguing enough to detail as to what had happened. In her writing, she uses many contractions and abbreviations, also resembling the shortness of her writing style. However, despite the length of the sentences, McAvoy does a phenomenal job on getting the point across and making this article interesting for whoever reads it. The article can be used as a reliable resource for one who is looking into digging deeper into the truth behind the paranormal. She provides stories on five different aspects she has encountered through the house to show more knowledge of what she can provide behind each story, making each one credible. McAvoy lays the stories out like a timeline, writing from the first of the experiences to one of the last before the family had put the house up for…
made the Mr.Nuttel believe that the males of the family were dead. In ‘Charles’ laurie makes…
Out, the woodwork below it. Just as he tore the last board, loose the safe, fell on to the floor, with a thud. The door of the safe, shot open, and; golden coins spilled out. The ghost squalled, and pulled more coins, of gold, and silver, from the safe. Then he began to put the coins, in piles counting in a hoarse voice. She began to have doubt, about this ghost.…
Ghost stories, strange events, and plot twists are all things that often catch the attention of readers. In Lucille Fletcher’s The Hitchhiker a man is trying to convince readers that he is not crazy; however, as the story broadens he sees the same hitchhiker over and over again. The sight of him is making Ronald Adams crazy. Fletcher’s decisions help develop this craziness as she creates these elements.…
The family started to remember strange events that happened before and on that tragic night. A few months earlier, a man appeared at their house asking about hauling work. During his visit, he pointed to two fuse boxes and said that those boxes would cause a fire someday. The Sodder family didn’t believe him since they just had the fuse boxes checked out. Around the same time, another man tried to sell the family life insurance, but George turned him down. The man became enraged and threaten George by saying his house was going to burn down and his children would be destroyed. The family didn’t take the threats seriously and, at the time, wrote the man…
The main narrator tells the story from a third person point of view. Everything that is known is told from an all knowing voice. While reading the story Ray Bradbury makes it easy to understand that the narrator is more than the talking house. From a part in the story “It sniffed the air and scratched the kitchen door. Behind the door, the stove was making pancakes which filled the house with a rich baked odor and the scent of maple syrup. The dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned to fire.” (Bradbury 2)This part is interesting because of the use of detail in the senses. The narrator talks to us through his senses and describes the surroundings very vividly. This narrator also gives us certain descriptions that only a person outside of the house could tell us, and since there is no one left to tell us what is happening it must be from the view of a third person…
“I heard it was a ghost that haunts the tree.” Seraphina leaned in and whispered to me. “I was just about to go to the library and see if I could find something that could help.” She was always a very superstitious person. Seraphina feared all things that go bump in the night. She thought there was a ghost in her basement and wouldn’t let me go near it. It…
he had begun to talk to this man he was more of a burly fellow with a gold tooth and a German accent the two never exchanged names but began to hunt together. After bagging a couple of rabbits Michael and the strange man had gone their separate ways. then he went home to his mother and told her about the man that he had hunted with and she looked kind of surprised and worried at the same time, then after Michael had finished telling her of the man she went and got an old photo and showed it to Michael and asked if that was the man. When he saw the picture he replied, yeah that was the guy I was hunting with. and at that very moment his mother was overcome with a frightened look on her face, she then told Michael that the man's name was Claus and that he had passed away some odd twenty years ago. His mother began to break in tears telling him how Claus used to hunt down where he was quite often and trapped down there too also that he was a family friend. Michael had now realized that his mother knew his secret and that he had to tell her everything. He found it nice to be able to share about what he sees and became at peace with the spirits he encountered. He is now sixteen and continuously see these spirits, good and bad, but has learned to deal with the things that life throws at him, and still waits for the…
A man, John Wolf, heard loud screaming and shouting from his neighbor Lucy Lane’s front yard which lasted for several minutes and ended in a terrifying scream. When he looked out of his window, he saw the former…
Further evidence that the unnamed narrator lacks sanity is that after committing the crime of homicide and the police arrive, he is convinced that the now dead old man’s heart is still beating. His guilt takes on the form of a hallucination to the point where he is convinced even the policemen can hear it and suspect him as a murderer. In the end, his guilt drives him to cry out and tell the police to tear up the floorboards to reveal the corpse of the old man he murdered and then dismembered. The story is driven not by his insistence upon his innocence but by insistence on his sanity and to prove that only a sane man…
The second part of the story, which takes place a hundred years after the first, is both disturbing and mysterious. It involves a group of young people, Mr. and Mrs. Jenny, their pretty sisters and their sisters’ lovers who talk about the possibility of having a ghost inside their house and eventually discover the house’s dreadful secret. This part reveals the secret from the first part. Without it, the first part would have been very vague and incomplete. Along with the characters from the second part, we must attempt to read across a hundred years of silence to reconstruct the first woman’s story. We are forced to discover what traditions, what historical and cultural continuities link the two halves of the story together.…