Analysis Of The Haunting Of Lobo Manor

The Haunting of Hill House is considered a classic to many people. It has a certain sense of feeling missing from today's novels. The Haunting of Hill House has suspense, horror, a little bit of romance, and an ending that will leave you thinking for days. Shirley Jackson is well known for her twisted work. At the beginning of the book, you our introduced to a character that has a major impact on all of its "guests". Hill House. "Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against the hills, holding darkness within." This is just one of the chilling sentences from the opening paragraph. The fear begins to set in. Shortly after, you are introduced to the strong yet cautious Dr. John

The spooky outdoor setting is made to prepare the reader for the appearance of a cozy indoors, whereas the landlady’s scary features on the inside are covered up by her warm but deceitful personality. She tricks unsuspecting young men with her generous and very motherly personality.

Every haunted house usually has a sad or treacherous past. Lemp Mansion is no exception. Declared as one of the nine most haunted places in America, the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis has its own history of suicides and untimely deaths. The members of the family had wealth and power yet it seemed almost like a curse was on the family, causing misery and grief over the years.

Day after day, we would pass the mansion building on our way to and from school. Branches of vines and clusters of moss crawled up the sides of the building. I could see the paint, tearing off the walls. People for years have said the mansion building is haunted, but I don’t believe it. They say people have been possessed and killed there. Olivia, of course, believes every detail anyone tells him. To teach him a lesson, we decided to plan to spend the night in the mansion building this Saturday.

This book report is over Haunted Houses by Patricia D. Netzley. The book is part of a series called The Mystery Library. The main goal of the series is to examine strange and often unbelieveable or unexplainable events. The author’s writes this series and her other books for the age range of kids to young adults. This book in particular goes into depth about the history of haunted house and everything surrounding them like sightings, ghosts, poltergeist, speaking to spirits, and investigation.

The protagonist of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House is Eleanor Vance, an emotionally underdeveloped young woman with a dark past. As a character, she has a deep connection to the broad theme of family within the novel, and more specifically, how the lack of family when it is desperately needed leads to emptiness.

The most evil villain is The Landlady, because she is much more calculated than the narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart , proof she is a calculated killer is when billy drank his tea and it had a bitter taste of almond, a known poison to also have that taste is potassium cyanide. She also killed two more people then the narrator. When Billy was looking threw the text book he says the only two other people in the guest book. They were still there 2 or 3 years after the entered their name on the guest list, “My dear boy, he never left. He’s still here. “They’re on the fourth floor both of them together.” She also lured in one of her victims (Billy Weaver) by using a bed and breakfast

In Hill House we have a character named Doctor Montague this character is the one that got everything started. He wanted to bring people in this haunted house to prove the existence of the paranormal. Than we have Joyce who brought a group of people to prove the same thing about Rose Red. These two characters lead the group of people around the house and told them about the history of both houses.

It was October 31st, 1999, one windy, cold, and dark Halloween night. Three friends, McKenzie, Baylee, and Vanessa decided they wanted to stay home alone while Baylee’s parents were at work. She told everyone she lived in a “hell house” all her life because there was constantly something going on. Doors flying open, voices, footsteps. Nothing ever stayed where they had put it. Her parents worked all the time and she was constantly terrified. On Halloween it tended to get worse but no one had ever believed her.

The White House is the home and workplace of the President of the United States since 1800, which was first inhabited by John Adams. This house was home for forty-three of the forty-four Presidents of the United States, two of which have actually died in the Executive Mansion, but also the presidents did have family members who died within the walls of the White House. With all of the this house’s rich history, it may not be a surprise that it is rumored to be haunted, and is considered one of the most haunted houses in the United States. There are reports of sightings of past Presidents and spouses by different Presidents, their families, and foreign dignitaries.

On one of those nights, when I drifted off into a nightmare, I found myself alone in a silent town that looked to be abandoned. The walls of the buildings, as well as the sidewalks had writing on them. Words such as "Mr. Piggyton" and "Play!" were drawn on with chalk. There were also random names written as well. The most troubling was the large drawing of Mr. Piggyton that was drawn on the walls of an abandoned candy store. Below that, "Let's all have some fun!" was written.

The little girl is also wearing a Halloween costume. Unlike the boy’s cheerful Mickey Mouse costume, her dress has bats and spider webs on it. There also seems to be a rope on the dress, meant to look like a bow. Similar to the boy, the girl is also wearing a mask. Instead of a skeleton’s face, her mask looks like a creepy doll’s face.

In a clearing in the forest, a well can be seen. Wart first saw Merlyn at the well, and Merlyn seemed inattentive and abstract, because he was struggling to pull up a bucket, and his clothes were scattered with bird droppings. Merlyn says to himself, “You would think that after all these years of study, you could do better for yourself.” (22) This implies that Merlyn has had an education, but isn’t doing as well as he would like. Later, Merlyn says, “By this and by that, why can’t they get us…” (22) It is unclear who “they” are, and apparently Merlyn knows something that “they” don’t. Behind this well, there is a small stone cottage. The cottage has two parts. The first part is very tall, and has a hole in the thatch of the roof so that a fire could be built inside. Merlyn

“So kids, every Halloween, it is said that her ghost, roams the empty hallways of this very school, searching for another female student to take her place.” The students were now on the edge of their wooden seats, eyes wide, listening to every word Mr. Morris said. All of a sudden the loud bell breaks the silence, making each one of them jump.

“In the year of 1989, there was a street named Elm, in the state of Wyoming. Few chose to live on that street, and they all knew about the haunted house, up on the hill, on the west side of town, coming off of Elm. Once, I spent the week with some friends and, Halloween came upon us, while I stayed with them.” I was telling my first-grade brother and his friends stories to scare them out of their wits. Besides, no one wants little kids tagging along with you to go trick or treating, when you could go with your friends to Haunted Houses, and not ones set up by the town hall. “We were just about to pass the house, not thinking anything of it, when we heard a moan coming from Old Man Reaper’s house.” Their eyes grew wide with fear. Mr. G.