The Yellow Wallpaper: and Other Stories of Paranoia (Haunted Book Tales) - Softcover

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins; Wallace, D.; Publishers, Searchtower

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1975865456 ISBN 13: 9781975865450

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Many famous maddening stories The Yellow Wallpaper, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Monkey's Paw, The Cask of Amontillado, B24, The Fall of the House of Usher, and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. This collection begins with two narrative stories. Taking us from our normal everyday life, into a gradual downfall to madness. First, The Yellow Wallpaper, an oppressed wife hides her journal filled with paranoia. She is recouping. From what her husband/physician calls, "a temporary nervous depression," with "hysterical tendencies." The diagnosis is common to women in that period. Next The Tell-Tale Heart, the erratic mad ramblings of a guilty conscience. Now to convince the reader of his sanity, he describes the murder he committed. Then concealed under the floorboards. In the end, the narrator's feelings of guilt result in his hearing the dead man's beating heart. Accompanied by The Monkey's Paw, with three wishes attached, to affect the owner. But the wishes come with an enormous price, for interfering with fate. The Cask of Amontillado is set in an unnamed Italian city at Carnival time. In an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes insulted him. Then B24, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s great stories not related to Sherlock Holmes. Is he the accused or conspiracy, innocent or guilty. Consider the burglar caught in the act? Or has an unhappy wife used the opportunity to become a rich widow? You get to decide. With, The Fall of the House of Usher. The tale begins with a narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher. After receiving a disturbing message from him. Asking for help in a distant area of the country, complaining of an illness. As he arrives, the narrator notices a thin crack extending from the roof. Following it down the front of the building and into the neighboring lake. Winding up with one of my favorites, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Farquhar a plantation owner in his mid-thirties is on an Alabama railroad bridge during the Civil War. He is being prepared for execution by hanging, with half a dozen military men and a company of infantrymen. They guard the bridge and carrying out the conviction. Farquhar thinks of his wife and children. Then sidetracked by a loud noise that, to him, sounds like a loud clanging; it is the conclusion of his vigil. He sees the possibility of leaping off the bridge and floating to safety. If he can free his tied hands, only the soldiers drop him from the bridge before he can act on the idea. And a popular outcome for TV episodes of the eerie kind. Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman was born July 3rd in Hartford, Connecticut and died August 17th in Pasadena, California at age 75. A writer, commercial artist, magazine editor, lecturer and social reformer. Gilman was best known for three of her works, The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland, Women and Economics. The first was a story written after her own psychosis. In 1932 Gilman was diagnosed with breast cancer, she found herself terminally ill and took an overdose of chloroform dying quietly.

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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was born Edgar Poe on January 19th in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Baltimore, Maryland on October 7th at only forty years old. An American writer, editor, and critic. The second child of two actors, his father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died in 1811. Taken in by John and Frances Allan and moved to Richmond, Virginia, the Allan’s’ never adopted him. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" a success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. On October 3, 1849, Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore. He was taken to the Washington Medical College where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849, at 5:00 in the morning. W. W. Jacobs William Wymark "W. W." Jacobs, born September 8 in Wapping, London England. And died at the age of 79 at Hornsey Lane, Islington, London, England on September 1st. at age 79. An English author of short stories and novels, much of his work was humorous, he is famous for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw". Having lived by the wharf and visited a cottage in the country these places and people were added to his many stories. By 1885 his first short story was published. "The Monkey's Paw" is how people remember him nowadays (published 1902). Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born May 22 in Edinburgh, Scotland and died July 7th in Crowborough, England at age 71. Doyle was an author, writer, and physician, but will always be associated with writing sixty stories about Sherlock Holmes. Doyle found a publisher for his first Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet it was printed in 1886 with great reviews. "It is no wonder that after the study of such a character (teacher Joseph Bell) I used and amplified his methods when in later life I tried to build up a scientific detective who solved cases on his own merits and not through the folly of the criminal." Arthur Conan Doyle died July 7, 1930, with his family by his side with his last words to them "the greatest and most glorious adventure of all," to his wife, "You are wonderful."

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1975865456
• ISBN 13: 9781975865450
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150