Blog Post 10 (Hauntings)

      It is crazy how in the previous blog post, I mentioned "The Fall of the House of Usher"by Edgar Allan Poe. I didn't realize that it was our reading for this week (I guess I'm just cool in that sense or I know what the Professor is thinking- I prefer the former). Well this is my second time reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" and again, it scared the socks off of me, and I'm most likely am going to have to sleep with a nightlight (not that I own any or anything). So a quick synopsis of the story is: narrator gets invited by his sickly (mentally ill- super sensitive senses), superstitious, friend Roderick to Roderick's house. Long story short, Roderick's sister is also sick, she has a seizure, dies (so they thought), and Roderick and the narrator entombs her. One night, the narrator wakes up unable to sleep; Roderick joins him. The narrator tries reading a book aloud to calm Roderick's nerves; and as this happened, they heard noises from below the room, Roderick jumps and announces that his sister is returning (which she did). When she opened the door she collapses into Roderick and he dies also. The narrator (freaked out) fled the scene; and as he was leaving, the house split into two and crumbled. Everything about this story was creepy. The house was creepy; Roderick was creepy; the sister (Madeline) was creepy. I guess I'm just overly sensitive to anything remotely scary or hinting towards something scary. But I was able to prove myself not a coward (in my twisted defense). I was going to add a photo to be nifty and cool, but when I Google searched images of "The Fall of the House of Usher," it was awful. Hence, no picture.
          "Afterward" by Edith Wharton was five times scarier than "The Fall of the House of Usher." Remember in my introduction blog post when I said ghost, demons and paranormal things are a no-no? Well, this story went well past my no-no zone. I was so creeped out by it. When Mary came to the realization that the ghost took her husband and she remembered what her sister said (mentioning that she wont realize that there is a  ghost in the house until afterwards). Boy did Mary find out too late, and she came to the realization that she will probably never see her husband again. This story just rang with an ending of tension. I can't even deal right now to right a proper analysis.

Update:

The show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was pretty interesting. It was so old and there was a few scary parts that gave a me anxiety. However, the part when that random girl found the dead body in the locker and she screamed...it was hilarious! Anyhow, I think I saw this show when I was younger but I don't remember seeing it but it seems fairly familiar.