“The Turn of the Screw” offers two very different readings; the text could be interpreted as an exploration of the paranormal or the paranoidal. Those who view the novel as being an exploration of the paranormal take events throughout the novel on face value‚ trusting the narrator to give the whole truth and nothing but. However those who read the novel with more cynical perspective begin to doubt their narrators version of events believing her paranoid or dishonest. In light of this knowledge I
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‘The X-Files’ and ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ The television drama ‘X-Files’ episode ‘Gender Bender’ is about unsolved cases in the FBI investigation. The special agent Fox Mulder and Dana Scully believe that it involving aliens and paranormal phenomena. In that episode‚ a man in the club is taken by a woman for casual sex. Then‚ the man was found dead in a room in a hotel. The special agents‚ Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were selected to investigate this case. They try to look at CCTV where
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Hidden Transylvania When people think of Transylvania‚ they mostly have Dracula in mind. For some it is also about the medieval festival of Sighisoara‚ and for only a few‚ amongst who Prince Charles‚ it is all about the wonderful villages around Sibiu. There is more to Transylvania than these. This book does not want to be a travel guide‚ but a means to discover hidden Transylvania. I was born and raised in Brasov‚ also known as Kronstadt (Crown City). It is a very old and beautiful
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In Stephen Wagner’s article “Mothers’ Messages from Beyond‚” Wagner writes about the accounts of real people who claim they have felt the presence of their mothers in some way after their passing. The article includes five personal accounts from other people‚ along with Wagner’s own personal experience. The supernatural accounts vary anywhere from hearing whispers‚ seeing apparitions‚ and even seeing the deceased in one’s dreams. Wagner’s primary point is that a mother’s love and presence is so
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characters. For example‚ in The Blair Witch Project the film students are camping in the woods of Maryland‚ this is the setting where the students went missing due to the witchcraft cursing that was done in this place years ago. Whereas‚ in The Paranormal Activity the couple is moving into their new house. The first time that the couple moves houses is when Katie is terrified of staying in their new house alone therefore‚ they decide to spend the night in a hotel. At the next day Katie is feeling
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The Yellow Wallpaper‚ written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892‚ depicted the medical care of depression and beliefs of that era and the treatment of women. 2. The struggle in the story was an unnamed writer and her husband‚ John‚ who was a physician and was treating his wife for depression. 3. The author was the protagonist who was ill and found her being placed in a rundown mansion situated in a rural area‚ far from society. 4. Her husband‚ the antagonist‚ thought it was best for her
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The Fallen is a series of novels by American paranormal romance novelist Cynthia Eden. The series follows the lives of angels of death that are charged with collecting souls that they have been allocated. Other than the angels of death the paranormal series of novel sis full of other supernatural creatures including shape shifters‚ demons‚ and vampires. The first novel of the still ongoing series was Angel of Darkness that was first published in 2011 to much critical acclaim and commercial success
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In-between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers‚ the city of Babylon rose from near obscurity to become a mighty multinational empire which then plunged into the dust. However‚ Babylon continues to live in competing strands of popular memory. For within the strands of popular memory‚ Hammurabi propagated his first codified law‚ Nebuchadnezzar grew his Hanging Gardens‚ the Tower of Babel fell‚ and its future Whore will reign anew in anticipation of the Second Coming. These twin strands of memory have
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Savannah‚ Georgia ghost tours . Some are by foot‚ some have transportation‚ but all provide fright seeing. Here are some of the ghost tours available. Paranormal Tours On the paranormal tours you have a choice of two options. Their tours are centered on the Sorrel-Weed House and Carriage House. These tours invite you to bring your own paranormal equipment along. They let you see what they have on their infrared camera and EMF detector. In the second option you get to take a haunted stroll around
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The Big Time series is a series of paranormal novels by paranormal and urban fantasy author Jennifer Estep. Estep published the first novel of the series Karma Girl in 2007 to much popularity amongst fans of the genre. Following the popularity of the series‚ Jennifer went on to follow the first with several more titles in the still ongoing series. The Bigtime series of paranormal romances is set in the Big Apple‚ New York City. The Bigtime is a city full of uber villains‚ heroic superheroes‚ sassy
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