B is for Baby. Welcome to Day 2 of Blogging from A to Z and Pen In Her Hand’s theme Book-ish Ghosts! We had a great turn-out for Day 1, so I hope you enjoyed playing along. And if you didn’t, you are more than welcome to join in the guessing game and contest now. Here are your clues for B is for Baby: Clue 1: This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in Literature. Clue 2: The ghost of this novel is…
Peril on the Screen: The Awakening Thanks to a recommendation by reader Joanna over at DanseNoir, I watched the ghost movie The Awakening. The Awakening features a story within a story, so there’s a mystery aspect as well as a supernatural one. As the movie opens, Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) exposes a fraudulent seance followed by the dramatic arrests of the perpetrators. Britain is reeling from the momentous losses of World War I and the flu pandemic, and grieving…