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    Alabama Ghost Stories

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    Many people have been inside haunted houses or lived in a haunted house. Some people do not realize actually if there house is haunted or not. People who actually know about a haunted house , they want to visit and video what paranormal activities happen at the haunted house. In Alabama, three places have been visited and recorded of the ghost inthe haunted facility. The word facility is being used because not all ghost exist in houses, they can be in backyard, bridge, anywhere. The big houses you

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    A tale of Two Ghosts: The Yellow Wallpaper and the Things they Carried When people think of normal ghost stories they think of stories told around the campfire. Like a ghost of a one handed axe murder that kills kids that venture out into the woods, or the ghost of a kid who drowned in the lake and seeks vengeance on every camper that comes there. Many people don’t associate ghost stories with tales like Macbeth and Hamlet by Shakespeare. Or other works of literature like the Yellow Wallpaper by

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    instantly. I pull up in front of the old building and think about how in my plan I want to create a haunted house to kill the people that who attend it looking for a good time and to display their dead bodies as part of the attraction yet unknown to them. That this will be the very place that I will create and finish my plan. There are multiple small trap rooms with creepy cages in the middle creating a haunted house for the public that is going to become my organized plan hoping that no mistakes come along

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    The Screaming Staircase

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    Dear fellow students, What if menacing ghosts haunted cemeteries, streets, and houses, and could only be subdued by teenagers with unique psychic talents? In The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud, the spunky Lucy Carlyle teams up with the captivating leader Anthony Lockwood and their witty colleague George Cubbins to solve the mysteries of the terrorizing Combe Carey Hall. All goes well until other forces come into play. Now the trio are faced with formidable, bloodthirsty specters, and it

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    boarding school that used to be a private mansion. This ghost movie derives from typical characteristics of the subgenre haunted houses. Unexpected sounds, intense music, and a ghostly monster scare the viewer as this movie plays out, but the twist is finding out the monster is not the ghost. The Awakening’s twist in plot allows the movie to surpass the layout of a haunted house movie by making the movie more interesting, suprising to the viewer. To begin, haunted movie’s subgenre characters usually

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    This change is very much evident in ‘The House of the Seven Gables’. The dark, decaying, claustrophobic mansion - ‘conceived in the grotesqueness of a Gothic fantasy’, ‘the scene of events more full of human interest, perhaps, than those of a gray, feudal castle’ - at once establishes itself as the central symbol of the novel and imparts an unmistakably Gothic

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    unison. My friends consisted of mary,riley,and samantha we had all been friends for a while now and got along pretty well. “ So are you guys ready to go to the haunted house yet?” “No but I probably never will be so I guess I am” riley said a little too loudly. “Okay then let's go” mary said with enthusiasm. So we went off walking towards the haunted house. We blended in pretty well with all the children trick-or-treating because we had all dressed up even though none of us were trick-or-treating. I was

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    The scariest day of my life all started on July 27, 2016. That morning, my friend Avery, Avery’s brother Justin, and I were walking to school. Everyday on the way to school, we pass a house that a old, creepy man use to live in that now has mold and vines growing up it. That day when we were walking by the house, Justin dared Avery and I to knock on the front door. We stared at the house, and I took a step forward. Avery said, “Are you really going to do what I think you are.” I shouted back, “Yes

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    The term gothic serves as the ideal backdrop for a literary era of suspense, mystery, and terror. A haunted mansion bursting with secrets, a naïve helpless heroine, and the male hero that saves the day are all quintessentially gothic. When Ellen Moers first coined the term “Female Gothic” in her 1976 book, Literary Women, she defined it as “the work that women writers have done in the literary mode that, since the eighteenth century have been termed Gothic” (Moers). Her argument that Female Gothic

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    The tales of a haunted house is a popular genre in American Gothic literature. The haunted houses of the 17th and 18th century are usually described in American Gothic tales as Southern plantation. When in their prime the houses were great examples of the upper echelons of society, which only the ultra-elite owned. The dark secret behind such plantation houses is they were built and maintained by patriarchal slavery; the prevailing slavery of women. The plantation homes were maintained on the sweat

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