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The haunted library
Kaz is an ordinary ghost. The wind separates Kaz from his family and carries him to a library far away, and he is scared he will be lost forever. That is, until he meets Claire--a human who can actually see him!
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Spectres insistants: Primary and Secondary Hauntings in Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête
In a complex return to Albert Camus's L'Etranger, Kamel Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquete (2013) explores the ghosts of Algeria's colonial past. By making the fate of Meursault's murdered victim the center of his story, Daoud gives the nameless \"Arab\" a name, \"Moussa\", and a family. Moussa's younger brother Haroun has the responsibility of recounting the day of his brother's death as well as his family's destiny in the wake of the tragedy. This essay concentrates on the haunted presences in the novel and, in a critical hauntological reading, examines the novel's primary hauntings in the form of the ghosts of Moussa and Camus, and its secondary hauntings through the allusions to the Oran massacre of 1962. These examples of insistent haunting in Meursault, 'contre-enquete' compel a critical witnessing of this period of Algeria's colonial history.
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Ghosts of the Wild West
Once deemed the \"custodian of the twilight zone\" by Southern Living, celebrated storyteller and ghost hunter Nancy Roberts returns to familiar subject matter in this newly expanded edition of her Ghosts of the Wild West, a finalist for the Spur Award of the Western Writers of America in its original edition. In these seventeen ghostly tales—including five new stories—Roberts expertly guides readers through eerie encounters and harrowing hauntings across Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and the Dakotas. Along the way her accounts intersect with the lives (and afterlives) of legendary figures such as Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday. Roberts also justifies the fascination among ghost hunters, folklorists, and interested tourists with notoriously haunted locales such as Deadwood, Tombstone, and Abilene through her tales of paranormal legends linked to these gunslinger towns synonymous with violence and vice in Western lore. But not all of these encounters feature frightening specters or wandering souls. Roberts also details episodes of animal spirits, protective presences, and supernatural healings. Forever destined to be associated with adventure, romance, and risk taking, the Wild West of yore still haunts the American imagination. Roberts reminds us here that our imaginations aren't the only places where restless ghosts still roam.
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Ghosts
\"Ghosts revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who literally hang around the place, but one teenage girl becomes the most curious. Her questions about the ghosts get so intense that her mother - in a chilling split-second - realizes her daughter's life hangs in the balance.\"
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The secret room
Now that Kaz can finally pass through walls without feeling all \"skizzy,\" he can go explore Beckett's secret room at the back of the library. What he finds there is a mystery he never expected!
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The ghosts at the movie theater
\"Kaz and Claire take a trip downtown, hoping to find Kaz's long-lost uncle. Instead, they meet a group of ghosts who live in the movie theater. But soon the ghosts start mysteriously disappearing! Who or what is chasing them away? And can Kaz and Claire bring the ghosts back?\"-- Book jacket flap.
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