DOCSLIB.ORG

HEAVEN and HELL on EARTH Laura Rather 516 S. Morningstar Dr

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
HEAVEN and HELL on EARTH Laura Rather 516 S. Morningstar Dr HEAVEN AND HELL ON EARTH Laura Rather 516 S. Morningstar Dr. Anaheim, CA 92808 678-906-8159 [email protected] Draft 3 shortened Cast of Characters Fictional Characters NARRATOR, male or female, age unimportant, dressed as a court jester, fast talking and highly excitable. DIRECTOR, male or female, age unimportant, dressed all in black, dramatic and pompous. CAST, male and female, all ages, all races, dressed as appropriate for each period. They will play humanity as a group and individuals can assume the nonfictional roles that only appear in one scene. Lines can be done in unison, or with individuals taking a line or stanza each. ANGELS, genderless beings of light, so however that can be done. Lines can be done in unison, or with individuals taking a line or stanza each. Nonfictional Characters GOD JESUS, male in his 30s. HOLY SPIRIT, genderless and ageless ADAM, male in his 20s or 30s EVE, female in her 20s or 30s PLATO, male in his 60s SOCRATES, male in his late 60s GLAUCON, male in his late 60s ARISTOTLE, male in his 20s RUMI, male in his 40s GANDHI, male in his 40s PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, male in his 50s or 60s MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., male in his 30s DEEPAK CHOPRAH, male in his 60s OPRAH WINFREY, female in her 50s or 60s ECKHART TOLLE, male in his 50s HELEN SCHUCMAN, female in her 50s WILLIAM THETFORD, male in his 40s MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, female in her 40s or 50s This is a play within a play. The setting is Heaven, and the play being performed in Heaven on a “set stage” takes place over the entire history of mankind. The actual stage surrounding the set stage is Heaven and the props do not change. The set stage uses minimal props to reflect the era for each scene. ACT I SCENE I At RISE: (NARRATOR in heaven with ANGELS in the background on a set stage which is in the middle of the actual stage doing the things (s)he describes. This can provide cues to the lines since this monologue is relatively long.) NARRATOR Imagine if you will, we are all in heaven, where you want to be, if you aren’t a heathen. Yes, this is the place you want to be in, and if you want to leave you are not seeing reason. There’s joy all the time, no matter the season. So here in heaven we all exist, in a life so fully blissed, where no one dies and no one is missed, everyone does just as they wish, life is eternal, and does consist, only of things that bring love, joy and passion, there’s no need for work or action, we already live in God’s great mansion, and pursue only that which brings satisfaction. So, of course, there is lots of art, endeavors that are close to the heart, everyone plays a part, play anything, except a harp, there’s been plenty of those right from the start. (Angels with harps respond, insulted.) ANGELS Hey! NARRATOR But, play anything else, or go with song. Imagine how you’ll thrill the throng, you can’t go wrong, we’ll sing along, and there’s never, ever, ever a gong (Winks) Or, if you prefer to paint, from me you will get no complaint, in fact, I’ll be your patron saint, the highest highs you will attain, 2 you have everything to gain, for anyone who has a brain and aspires to visually entertain will certainly find this off the chain. (Angels with easels and brushes respond.) ANGELS Yes, we have ascertained that being a painter totally reigns. NARRATOR Writers, I can take or leave them, running off at the mouth ad nauseam. (Angels writing, insulted.) ANGELS Hey! NARRATOR But, there are those who like to read, this is a point I will concede, though you won’t catch me with a screed. I understand there is a need so to this I do accede, and will include it as a deed of a nature that is artistic, though I risk sounding sophistic. Then there is the art of dance. how else can you get the chance to transfix a crowd from the very first glance and put us in a joyful trance, filling our hearts with sweet romance as around the stage you prance? (Angels dancing take a bow.) And, of course, there is the play, should you decide to go that way, but please do keep it light and gay, otherwise you may go astray from heaven and the pearly gates, because, in pretending, you might betray the tenants that in heaven hold sway, that love, joy, and peace are the way. Anything else and you may fall prey to the delusion of your fictional gateway, stuck there among all manner of sins, and this is where our play begins. 3 A play within a play, so meta, don’t tell me you could have done it betta. You’ve heard the story of man’s fall from grace, what if I told you this wasn’t the case? Heaven exists, and it is the place our story unfolds of the human race, as a concept used to make some space between God and his sons, a hiding place. Keep in mind, it is a fabrication. The important point is there is no separation, no spot of imperfection on God’s creation, no illusion of sin to form the foundation of hiding from God, which was the causation of this play’s inexplicable negation of the love and perfection of our situation, necessitating the search for salvation, imagining that eternal damnation must be the penalty for … but I digress that never happened, nonetheless, take this as a cautionary tale and don’t mess with perfection, love, and God’s kindness. Let’s start with our beings divine. As you know, God’s light they shine, but bitten by the acting bug the stage did on their heartstrings tug, clouding their minds just like a drug. They fell under a director’s spell and, as you may guess, it does not go well. I’ll stop and let the play itself tell the tale of our troop of acting angels. (DIRECTOR speaking to CAST from the set stage. Angels are on the actual stage surrounding the set stage, but not paying attention.) DIRECTOR Hello my angelic actors, behold your magnificent benefactor, me. You have been chosen by the master, me again. (Cast laughs.) All right, contain your laughter, I’ll let you know when I’m being funny, which is almost never since I’m no sunny ingénue. I tell you true, 4 but I’m sure you knew. However, if greatness you pursue this is the right venue, the wringer I’ll put you through just to help you break through, please give my genius its due. This play that I’ve conceived is something to be achieved, it must be seen to be believed, I know it will be well received. We have a fictional world to portray, one that is made out of clay, different from Heaven in every way. It will change with every performance, an exercise of nonconformance so your discomfort is of most importance in eliciting the right discordance. Your character you must become, I mean all of you, not just some. To my demands you will succumb, you will all be under my thumb, so commit yourself to be undone, for that’s the glory of the play, to lose yourself when you portray another, when you throw away your own identity for the sake, for the love, of the art you make. CAST To be sure, this sounds exciting and though we are up for trying the challenge that you are supplying, there can be no denying that we find it terrifying. DIRECTOR Your full commitment I demand. You’ll enter into my dreamland and temptation you must withstand to return to your life at hand. It will exist for you no more, until I finally open the door. Only then can you return, until then your only concern is from me your lines to learn, and my approval earn. 5 For those of you who are weak of heart, do now refuse your part, go on, get out, depart! For the rest of you, it’s time to start to go about creating art CAST None of us will run and hide, as a group we did decide to trust in you to be our guide, so that we can be glorified, all our talents magnified. We will do as you have specified, though as we said, we’re terrified, not sure you are beatified, but our minds will be occupied even if we are mystified, perhaps we should be certified, but to your wishes we are tied. DIRECTOR This play is not all sweetness and light, but I ask you, put your fears aside. God’s perfection is magnified by the contrast when we collide with darkness, the contrast amplified as we expose another side, and though it seems like suicide, I tell you we are justified and that our goal is purified because our success won’t be denied, our ambition will be satisfied. CAST Well, we are just starry-eyed neophytes, with you allied and, if we may confide, longing to be glorified, our talents deemed bona fide, we’ll scale any mountainside in order to be ratified. DIRECTOR (Speaking to the audience.) I only need them to believe and this world of mine they will conceive.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Viaje Sin Distancia
    1 Viaje sin Distancia Es ésta la tan largamente esperada obra que relata cómo vio la luz UN CURSO DE MILAGROS, ese valiosísimo material de autoestudio catalogado como la «Biblia del Tercer Milenio» y que alcanza ya su trigésimosegunda edición, con más de un millón de ejemplares vendidos hasta la fecha. En Viaje sin distancia Robert Skutch, cofundador y director de la FOUNDATION FOR INNER PEACE, fundación editora del Curso, nos conduce por un viaje fascinante de más de setenta años de duración en el que nos desvela el escenario donde se produjeron los acontecimientos y los desafíos a los que se vieron enfrentados sus principales protagonistas: Helen Schucman, una respetada psicóloga que se autodeclaraba atea y que, a través de un largo proceso de inspiración (siete años), escuchó una Voz que le iba dictando su contenido; y William N. Thetford, director del departamento de Psicología en el que ella trabajaba y su principal colaborador y apoyo en tan inusitado caso de revelación. Es éste un libro que será ávidamente leído no solo por personas ya familiarizadas con el Curso, sino por todas aquellas a quienes fascine conocer historias extraordinarias acaecidas realmente y que estén interesadas en su propio desarrollo personal y espiritual. Neo Person VIAJE SIN DISTANCIA La historia detrás de UN CURSO DE MILAGROS: sus protagonistas, cómo ocurrió la revelación y el desarrollo de todo ,el proceso Robert Skutch El viaje hacia Dios es meramente redespertar a la conciencia de lo que siempre has sido, del lugar donde siempre estás. Es un viaje sin distancia hacia un destino que nunca ha cambiado.
    [Show full text]
  • Bibliography of Occult and Fantastic Beliefs Vol.4: S - Z
    Bruno Antonio Buike, editor / undercover-collective „Paul Smith“, alias University of Melbourne, Australia Bibliography of Occult and Fantastic Beliefs vol.4: S - Z © Neuss / Germany: Bruno Buike 2017 Buike Music and Science [email protected] BBWV E30 Bruno Antonio Buike, editor / undercover-collective „Paul Smith“, alias University of Melbourne, Australia Bibliography of Occult and Fantastic Beliefs - vol.4: S - Z Neuss: Bruno Buike 2017 CONTENT Vol. 1 A-D 273 p. Vol. 2 E-K 271 p. Vol. 3 L-R 263 p. Vol. 4 S-Z 239 p. Appr. 21.000 title entries - total 1046 p. ---xxx--- 1. Dies ist ein wissenschaftliches Projekt ohne kommerzielle Interessen. 2. Wer finanzielle Forderungen gegen dieses Projekt erhebt, dessen Beitrag und Name werden in der nächsten Auflage gelöscht. 3. Das Projekt wurde gefördert von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sozialamt Neuss. 4. Rechtschreibfehler zu unterlassen, konnte ich meinem Computer trotz jahrelanger Versuche nicht beibringen. Im Gegenteil: Das Biest fügt immer wieder neue Fehler ein, wo vorher keine waren! 1. This is a scientific project without commercial interests, that is not in bookstores, but free in Internet. 2. Financial and legal claims against this project, will result in the contribution and the name of contributor in the next edition canceled. 3. This project has been sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany, Department for Social Benefits, city of Neuss. 4. Correct spelling and orthography is subject of a constant fight between me and my computer – AND THE SOFTWARE in use – and normally the other side is the winning party! Editor`s note – Vorwort des Herausgebers preface 1 ENGLISH SHORT PREFACE „Paul Smith“ is a FAKE-IDENTY behind which very probably is a COLLCETIVE of writers and researchers, using a more RATIONAL and SOBER approach towards the complex of Rennes-le-Chateau and to related complex of „Priory of Sion“ (Prieure de Sion of Pierre Plantard, Geradrd de Sede, Phlippe de Cherisey, Jean-Luc Chaumeil and others).
    [Show full text]
  • William Newton Thetford, Ph.D. – Life Story
    William Newton Thetford, Ph.D. – Life Story William Newton Thetford, Ph.D. 1923 –1988 Published by: Foundation for Inner Peace William Newton Thetford, Ph.D. Life Story Based on interviews in 1982 with his friend, psychologist and author, Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. PART I I was raised as a Christian Scientist. But after my sister, who was two years older than I, died when I was seven, religion lost all credibility for my parents. Right after that, I got rheumatic fever and nearly died, too. One day I overheard a conversation my moth- er and my doctor had on an extension telephone, which was near my bedroom. She didn’t know I could hear the exchange. Essentially, the doctor said I had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving, and that if I did I would probably be an invalid. I was still seven and very sick, and confined to bed. After this, I made a decision that I was not going to be an invalid and that I was not going to die. It’s very hard to Bill and his mother, 1923 describe or explain what I was doing, but I chose not to pay any attention to what the doctor said. At some level I seemed to be aware that it was up to me. In retrospect, I could say that I made a specific choice to live. After that, I was out of school for three years and stayed home, while my mother tutored me. My joints were lightly twist- ed by the rheumatic fever and I had a postural problem.
    [Show full text]
  • A Course in Miracles Profile
    A Course In Miracles By Rick Branch Founders: Helen Schucman and William Thetford Founding Date: 1965 Official Publication: While there are no official publications, The Holy Encounter is one of the major publications promoting the philosophy of A Course In Miracles. Organization Structure: There are hundreds of small study groups scattered across the country, each organized on an informal basis, for the express purpose of studying the Course. Unique Terms: While the Course has no truly unique terms, it defines common Christian terms in a unique way. Be aware of this fact when speaking to or listening to those who are followers of the Course. HISTORY In October 1965, Helen Schucman, an associate professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York, began receiving channeled messages from a speaker who would later identify himself as Jesus Christ.1 For the next ten years the voice is said to have dictated “in an inaudible voice” the three volume, 1,188 page, 500,000 word book known as A Course In Miracles.2 One of Schucman’s colleagues was Dr. William Thetford, a clinical psychologist at Columbia University. While he never heard the voice, he was instrumental in the publication of the Course. Raised in the Christian Science church, Thetford believed the Course was a representation of the “original teachings of Jesus.”3 In 1972, Schucman and Thetford met Dr. Kenneth Wapnick of the Foundation for Inner Peace. The Copyright for the Course was turned over to Wapnick and his organization in 1975. This action is followed in September of the same year with the publication of the first edition of A Course In Miracles.4 Schucman died in February 1981 and Thetford in 1988.
    [Show full text]
  • The Latest Witchcraft Craze
    ANOTHER INDICATION THAT WE ARE NEARING THE END OF ALL THINGS TheThe LatestLatest WitchcraftWitchcraft CrazeCraze There is intense interest in the occult, spiritual- “Russ Wise, A Course in Miracles: A Biblical Evalu- W ism, witchcraft, and talking to the dead. I have just ation, Probe Ministries, Richardson, TX—In 1965 a M discovered that a major talk show host, Oprah Winfrey, Jewish atheistic psychologist, from Columbia Univer- 1 has decided to initiate her vast audience across sity, began to channel messages from a spirit she be- 4 2 America into acceptance of psychic mediums, spiri- lieved to be Jesus. She ultimately produced, or she says 4 tualism, and conversing with the dead. This is indeed Jesus revealed to her, well-over a thousand pages of rev- a tragedy; for many of us have looked to her as a elation during the next seven years. leader in sensible, sane, down-to-earth goodness! “According to her testimony, Helen Schucman had In this brief report I will provide you with several a difficult relationship with her department head at quotations which will reveal the extent of this prob- the university. In an attempt to move beyond their lem. Many others could be cited. differences, they set out on a journey to find a base of As you know, Satan intends to bring about an common agreement. Schucman began having ‘highly intense revival of spiritualism, in connection with symbolic dreams’ and experiencing ‘strange images.’ his drive to force everyone to sacredly keep Sun- Her colleague encouraged her to transcribe the con- day. tent of these phenomena, so they might understand He is now using the book, A Course in Miracles, them better.
    [Show full text]
  • Helen Cohn Schucman, Ph.D
    Helen Cohn Schucman, Ph.D. Autobiography Foundation for A Course in Miracles Helen Cohn Schucman, Ph.D. Autobiography Copyright © 1990, 2009 Foundation for A Course in Miracles All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmit- ted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior consent of the publisher. Helen Cohn Schucman, Ph.D. Autobiography Foreword In 1975 at the request of Kenneth Wapnick, Helen Schucman expanded and updated a self-written literary version of her remarkable life, an autobiography she felt would offer a satisfactory but unpublished biographical account of herself. In it, and in a stylized way, Helen recounted selected events and periods, in particular how she came to scribe A Course in Miracles and the conflicting emotions she experienced during the process. Yet for personal reasons, being the very private and self-conscious person she was, Helen decided it would not add to this portrayal of herself by including more than she did. Nevertheless, the events and selected periods of her life Helen did choose to write about, for the most part, reliably reflect her thoughts and feelings about some of the key moments and turning points she experienced. As a result, they provide ample biographical material for becoming better acquainted with her as an individual. Hence the appropriateness, in telling Helen’s story, to include her autobiography as she originally penned it. For editorial purposes, however, subtitles as topic breaks have been inserted for clarity, while certain names and dates have been corrected to properly identify people, places, periods, and events that were initially and intentionally obscured.
    [Show full text]
  • New Age Tower of Babel Copyright 2008 by David W
    The New Age Tower of Babel Copyright 2008 by David W. Cloud ISBN 978-1-58318-111-9 Published by Way of Life Literature P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061 866-295-4143 (toll free) • [email protected] (e-mail) http://www.wayoflife.org (web site) Canada: Bethel Baptist Church, 4212 Campbell St. N., London, Ont. N6P 1A6 • 519-652-2619 (voice) • 519-652-0056 (fax) • [email protected] (e-mail) Printed in Canada by Bethel Baptist Print Ministry 2 CONTENTS I. The New Age’s Vain Dream ....................................................5 II. Oprah Winfrey: The New Age High Priestess ......................10 III. My Experience in the New Age ..........................................27 IV. The New Age and the Mystery of Iniquity ..........................32 V. What Is the New Age? ..........................................................36 VI. The Origin of the New Age .................................................47 VII. How the New Age Evolved over the Past 100 Years .........61 The Stage Was Set at the Turn of the 20th Century The Mind Science Cults ................................................62 Christian Science ...........................................................64 Unity School of Christianity .........................................69 Helena Blavatsky and Theosophy .................................72 Alice Bailey ...................................................................80 The New Thought Positive-Confession Movement ......85 Aldous Huxley ..............................................................91 Alan
    [Show full text]
  • The Wrongful Conviction of Charles Milles Manson
    45.2LEONETTI_3.1.16 (DO NOT DELETE) 3/12/2016 2:40 PM EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: THE WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF CHARLES MILLES MANSON Carrie Leonetti I. Imagine two crime stories. In the first, a commune of middle class, law-abiding young people living on the outskirts of Los Angeles were brainwashed by a dominating cult leader who ordered his followers to commit murders to usher in an apocalyptic race war. In his subsequent trial, the leader of the “kill-coven”1 engaged in outrageous behavior because he thought that mainstream society was inferior to him and incapable of understanding. In the second, a group of young, middle-class hippies, caught up in the summer of 1969, heavy drug use, and group contagion, committed the same murders. Afraid of the death penalty and having to face public responsibility for their actions, the murderers accused a mentally ill drifter, a delusional schizophrenic, whom the group had adopted as a mascot, of directing the murders. The only significant evidence implicating the drifter in their crimes was their claim that they were “following” him. The claims were given in exchange for leniency and immunity from prosecution for capital murder. Even prosecutors who charged the drifter conceded that he had not actively participated in the murders, proceeding to trial instead on the theory that he had commanded the others to commit the murders like “mindless robots.” The police and prosecutors went along because they wanted to “solve” and “win” the biggest case of their lives. The drifter’s Associate Professor, University of Oregon School of Law.
    [Show full text]
  • Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960S
    Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s CAMILLE PAGLIA 1. eclipse by politics Commentary on the 1960s has been mas- sive. Law and politics in that turbulent decade are well doc- umented but remain controversial, and the same thing can be said of contemporary innovations in mass media and the arts. One major area remains ambiguous or poorly assimi- lated, however—the new religious vision, which for a tanta- lizing moment in the American sixties brought East and West together in a progressive cultural synthesis. Its promise was never completely fulfilled, for reasons I will try to sketch here. But the depth and authenticity of that spiritual shift need to be more widely acknowledged. A political model currently governs interpretations of the sixties because of the enduring reform movements born in that period, including environmentalism, feminism, and gay liberation. Their mobilizing energy, as well as the organiza- tional style that would also be adopted by antiwar protests, initially came from the civil rights movement sparked by the us Supreme Court’s 1954 decision declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional. In that crusade, it must be remembered, ordained Protestant ministers such as Martin Luther King, Jr., played a leading role, as they also had in nineteenth-century abolitionism. The civil rights movement, with its hymns and anthems, appealed not just to secular standards of social justice but to a higher moral code. An expanded version of a lecture delivered on 26 March 2002 at Yale University, sponsored by the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale.
    [Show full text]
  • Relational Spirituality, Part 2 the Belief in Others As a Hindrance To
    International Journal of Transpersonal Studies Volume 29 | Issue 1 Article 8 1-1-2010 Relational Spirituality, Part 2 The Belief in Others as a Hindrance to Enlightenment: Narcissism and the Denigration of Relationship within Transpersonal Psychology and the New Age Gregg Lahood Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies Part of the Philosophy Commons, Psychology Commons, and the Religion Commons Recommended Citation Lahood, G. (2010). Relational Spirituality, Part 2 The Belief in Others as a Hindrance to Enlightenment: Narcissism and the Denigration of Relationship within Transpersonal Psychology and the New Age. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 29 (1). http://dx.doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2010.29.1.58 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Special Topic Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals and Newsletters at Digital Commons @ CIIS. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Journal of Transpersonal Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ CIIS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Relational Spirituality, Part 2 The Belief in Others as a Hindrance to Enlightenment: Narcissism and the Denigration of Relationship within Transpersonal Psychology and the New Age Gregg Lahood Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute Lismore, NSW, Australia The aim of this paper is to tease out from the New Age religion and religious transpersonal psychology a more relational spirituality. Humanistic and transpersonal psychologies were important forces in the emergence of the social phenomenon of the New Age. New Age transpersonalism leans toward a restrictive non-relational spirituality because of its historical affirmation of individualism and transcendence.
    [Show full text]
  • Mormonism and the New Spirituality: LDS Women's Hybrid Spiritualities by Doe Daughtrey a Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulf
    Mormonism and the New Spirituality: LDS Women's Hybrid Spiritualities by Doe Daughtrey A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Approved April 2012 by the Graduate Supervisory Committee: Linell Cady, Chair Colleen McDannell Tisa Wenger Tracy Fessenden ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY May 2012 ABSTRACT This dissertation illuminates overlaps in Mormonism and the New Spirituality in North America, showing their shared history and epistemologies. As example of these connections, it introduces ethnographic data from women who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in order to show (a) how living LDS women adapt and integrate elements from the New Spirituality with Mormon ideas about the nature of reality into hybrid spiritualities; and (b) how they negotiate their blended religious identities both in relation to the current American New Spirituality milieu and the highly centralized, hierarchical, and patriarchal Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The study focuses on religious hybridity with an emphasis on gender and the negotiation of power deriving from patriarchal religious authority, highlighting the dance between institutional power structures and individual authority. It illuminates processes and discourses of religious adaptation and synthesis through which these LDS women creatively and provocatively challenge LDS Church formal power structures. i DEDICATION This project is dedicated to my family: my husband, David, who ongoingly chooses and supports me not just in spite of but in celebration of our differences; my children Tatiana, Astrid, Dominic, Natasha, and Mikhail, who are my heroes and my champions; my grandchildren, Cozette, Tristan, Donovan, Nathaniel, and Vivienne, who are so creative and open to new possibilities; my father Ray, to whom I owe my intellectual curiosity and pursuit of excellence in teaching, but who died before I could complete the project; and my mother Callie, who I now have the privilege of caring for.
    [Show full text]
  • Horror Fiction
    9/10 Franklin High School Library Media Center Horror Fiction GHOSTS Almond, David. Kit’s Wilderness. Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past. Anthony, Piers. Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn. Jordan was once a valorous knight before he was killed. Now he is a ghost in Xanth riding his horse on dangerous missions over 400 years into the past. Avi. Devil’s Race. Sixteen-year-old John Proud is tormented by the ghost of an evil ancestor, with his own name and his own face, who was hanged in 1854 for being a demon. Avi. Something Upstairs. When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early 19th century and prevent his murder by slave traders. Barker, Clive. Coldheart Canyon. After his plastic surgery goes awry, actor Todd Pickett settles into a mansion in Coldheart Canyon to wait for the scars to heal, but when the president of his fan club arrives to try and uncover the truth behind his disappearance, she learns some unsettling secrets about the canyon. Block, Francesca Lia. Missing Angel Juan. Witch Baby follows Angel Juan to New York City and meets the ghost of her almost grandfather Charlie Bat. Bunce, Elizabeth C. A Curse Dark as Gold. Upon the death of her father, 17n-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.
    [Show full text]