Echoes Of Ballard House

Hidden secrets. Unearthed truths. Simone Doucet returns to uncover the sinister truth behind a series of murders within an opulent mansion in the heart of New Orleans' Garden District. Yearning to escape the confines of her New York City brownstone, Simone jumps at the opportunity to house-sit a gorgeous Queen Anne Victorian home in her cherished New Orleans Garden District. Upon her arrival, the walls whisper ancient voices, the owner’s parrot mimics an eerie nightly tune, and elusive footsteps echo through the floorboards. Simone quickly discovers she is not alone in this majestic house. Tackling the afterlife alone, Simone becomes entangled in the stories of three tormented souls caught in a web of greed, hatred, and infidelity. Their deadly secrets converge in a bone-chilling tale of murder. Yet, within the grandeur of Ballard House, Simone is far from alone. The peril she faces extends beyond the spectral world, and she will soon confront evil from both the living and the dead. What dark secret lies hidden within the walls of Ballard House?

Can a wrong be rectified in death? Eight months ago, Simone experienced her first spectral encounter. It awakened a dormant second sight and opened a chasm to the afterlife. Now, another spirit from 1917 New Orleans has wandered through that passage, haunting her with an intoxicating jasmine fragrance and wicked antics. To escape this mysterious ghost, Simone jumps at a seven-day complimentary Mardi Gras hotel package, unaware there might be an ancestral power behind her decision, an identity she grapples with. Is the ghost’s name Bleu? She’s a lady of the night who lived a dangerous life in the infamous Storyville. A place lined with mansion-like brothels on the edge of the French Quarter run by unscrupulous madams and frequented by dangerous criminals. WWI is on the horizon, jazz music is burgeoning, and Bleu’s life unravels. Visions of her past and horrific death beset Simone as she explores present-day New Orleans with her three roommates. But why are the images fragmented? Has Bleu forgotten what happened the stormy night she died? Can Simone uncover Bleu’s murderer and reunite her with her loved ones before it’s too late?

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Joss Whedon's work presents various representations of home spaces that give depth to his stories and storytelling. Through the spaceship in Firefly, a farmhouse in Avengers: Age of Ultron or Whedon's own house in Much Ado About Nothing, his work collectively offers audiences the opportunity to question the ways we relate to and inhabit homes. Focusing on his television series, films and comics, this collection of new essays explores the diversity of home spaces in Whedon's many 'verses, and the complexity these spaces afford the narratives, characters, objects and relationships within them.

The first three books in the Simone Doucet Series by E. Denise Billups, now available in one volume! Tainted Harvest: After travel writer Simone Doucet accepts an assignment that takes her to Magnolia Sunrise - a historical bed-and-breakfast in Natchez, Mississippi - strange events begin to take place. Frightful images of a young slave girl, Delphine, haunt her nights. Through spectral eyes, Simone sees the horrors she witnessed and was subjected to. Delphine wants everyone to know what happened to her, but why has she chosen Simone to tell her story? Wicked Bleu: Simone is heading to celebrate Mardi Gras, unaware there might be an ancestral power behind her decision. Soon, visions of Bleu, a lady of the night who lived a dangerous life in the infamous Storyville, fill Simone's mind. But why are the images fragmented, and can Simone uncover Bleu’s murderer and reunite her with her loved ones? Echoes of Ballard House: Yearning to escape the confines of her New York City brownstone, Simone jumps on the opportunity to house-sit a gorgeous Queen Anne Victorian home in her cherished New Orleans Garden District. But in this house, the walls whisper ancient voices and elusive footsteps echo through the floorboards. The peril Simone faces extends beyond the spectral world, and she will soon confront evil from both the living and the dead. What dark secret lies hidden within the walls of Ballard House?

Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology.

Premiering on Fox in 2009, Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was an innovative, contentious and short-lived science fiction series whose themes were challenging for viewers from the outset. A vast global corporation operates establishments (Dollhouses) that program individuals with temporary personalities and abilities. The protagonist assumes a different identity each episode--her defining characteristic a lack of individuality. Through this obtuse premise, the show interrogated free will, morality and sex, and in the process its own construction of fantasy and its audience. A decade on, the world is--for better or worse--catching up with Dollhouse's provocative vision. This collection of new essays examines the series' relevance in the context of today's social and political issues and media landscape.

Her memories died, but the dead won't let them sleep. There's something Allie can't remember. Lost memories refuse to surface until something triggers images of a blank night. A year after graduating from Emsworth University, Allie receives a mysterious email asking a single question. Do you remember what happened at 1414 Kalorama Road? Someone wants her to remember, and they are getting closer. As memories resurface, Allie must accept a sinister night and a discovery she could never have imagined. Will she remember before it's too late?

American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the movies--Nazi agents, Japanese-American spies, Communist Party subversives, Islamic sleeper cells--as well as the science-fiction threats that play to the same fears, such as alien body-snatchers and android doppelgangers. The work also examines fears inspired by World War I German spies, the Japanese-American internment and the McCarthyite witch-hunts and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen.