haunted

• “Emily Dickinson, an American poet, once wrote, «Nature is a haunted house, but art is a house that tries to be haunted».”

  Nobel Lecture The Chinese Novel

• “It's not a role I contemplated, but the title haunted me for years.”

  Newsweek: The Maladies Of Belonging

• “It's funny, I'm not a bit frightened at what they call the haunted room here -- the room that's next to Aunt Blanche's, in the other wing of the house.”

  From out the Vasty Deep

• “These episodes are stark reminders that for many, the landscapes of Georgia, like many others across the nation, remain "haunted," stalked by the remembered specters of racial violence, oppression, and hatred.”

  "Return to Sender" Confronting Lynching and Our Haunted Landscapes

• “For those influenced by the intellectual traditions of psychoanalysis, to speak of a person or a landscape as "haunted" is to imply that they are caught up in unresolved contradictions, in enduring traumas that cannot be neatly classified as belonging to the "past.”

  "Return to Sender" Confronting Lynching and Our Haunted Landscapes

• “The experience of being haunted is usually described as being indistinguishable from the experience of mental anguish, and associated with melancholia, alienation and anxiety.”

  Hauntings « Tales from the Reading Room

• “These fragments convey Wordsworth's well-known narrative fixation on a spot (a ruin haunted by the absence of a dead woman).”

  The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster

• “I remain haunted by a book called the Gammage Cup which I read decades ago.”

  ...With Fairy Tales For All

• “Conan had been told dark tales of hidden temples where intense smoke drifted up incessantly from black altars where kidnapped humans were sacrificed before a great coiled serpent, whose fearsome head swayed forever in haunted shadows.”

  Robert E. Howard (indirectly) on religion « Skulls in the Stars

• “Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains.”

  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

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