Word: hauntedness
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DENVER—If there is one lesson from my youth that has haunted me this summer, it’s that Mom is always right. And no matter how old I get, I keep trying and failing to prove her wrong. She told me once, “Someday...
Not all young British artists mummify sharks, put their unmade beds on display or trot round the celebrity circuit. Some stay quietly in their studios, recording their surroundings in empty cityscapes haunted by their missing inhabitants, lit by streetlamps, early dawn or winter dusk. Chris Campbell's specialty is car...
My name was salmon, like the fish: first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Go ahead, read it again. Almost everything that makes The Lovely Bones the breakout fiction debut of the year - the sweetness, the humor, the kicky rhythm, the deadpan suburban...
Sebold knows what it is to be haunted. In 1981, as a freshman at Syracuse University, she was savagely beaten and raped by a stranger. The trauma left her with ghosts that needed exorcising, and it wasn't until 1996, after two earlier failed novels and half of a third...
To draw similarities between the actor and John Anderton, his complex, haunted character in Minority Report, is irresistible. In Spielberg's sci-fi mystery, Cruise stars as a seemingly stalwart cop in 2054 who heads an elite squad known as Precrime. Using a trio of psychic mutants called precogs, he...