![]() ![]() Beloved by Toni Morrison: Sethe is haunted by the ghost of Beloved (the child she killed) and her tragic past, which is full of slavery, cruelty, murder, and rape.How much this affects the goings on in the book is left for the reader to divine. Sara Crowe in The Red Tree takes a lot of emotional baggage (and a seizure-inducing neurological disorder) with her when she moves into a farmhouse near the eponymous tree.There is also a baby in the house (the narrator's own it's implied she may suffer from post-partum depression) but the narrator isn't allowed to have anything to do with her care or raising that wouldn't be 'restful.' The unnamed narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper keeps seeing movement in the wallpaper - and this is supposed to be the result of her medical treatment.Former governess, apparently a normal, sweet young woman, whose neuroses bubble up to the surface as uncanny events pop up - Vera Claythorne from And Then There Were None fits this trope to a T, but subverted in that she did deliberately cause the death of her charge, and she ends up snapping completely in the end.She moves into her grandmother's haunted house, but people don't believe her suspicions of supernatural activity until it's too late. Eleanor Vance of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, both the book and the 1963 movie.Muir, where the heroine is a young widowed mother who might just be imagining the hearty sea captain's ghost out of romantic yearning, but the ghost himself is utterly benign and the heroine can matter-of-factly tell him not to reveal himself to her daughter as she's much too young for ghosts. As well as The Innocents, the 1961 film version with Deborah Kerr. Any version of The Ring has this character as the protagonist except for the book, which has a Haunted Hero.Still, he was trying to rescue his disappeared child, there was some implication that it was all in his head (although it turned out that it wasn't), and it all centred around trauma in his past (specifically, The Vietnam War). House played this entirely by the book, except in two ways - it was a comedy, and the protagonist was a dude, played by William Katt.The Watcher in the Woods, an atypical (suspenseful) Disney movie from 1980. ![]() Laura from El Orfanato, also known as The Orphanage.Julia from Full Circle, who tries to escape her overbearing husband and the trauma of her daughter's tragic death, which she may have caused, by moving into a house that turns out to be (apparently) haunted.Yoshimi and Dahlia from Dark Water, both the 2002 Japanese original and the 2005 American remake, respectively. ![]()
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