Date of Award
Spring 4-2020
Level of Access Assigned by Author
Open-Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Advisor
Gregory Howard
Second Committee Member
Laura Cowan
Third Committee Member
Ryan Dippre
Additional Committee Members
Hollie Adams
Abstract
“My Haunted Home” is a collection of short stories that explores the way in which hauntings and memory find themselves implanted in the everyday lives of those who live without people in their families. These stories work through grief in the form of haunting and explore how hauntings can be embodied through people and places. These stories work to bend genre tropes of horror and surrealist fiction in hopes to find a merging of haunting and memory. The narrators of these stories are ever changing, although there is overlap in voice throughout some of these stories. Part two of “My Haunted Home” utilizes a longer story format to follow one character throughout a few weeks in their life and follows the love life of this character.
Recommended Citation
Hood, Victoria E., "My Haunted Home: A Collection of Short Stories" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3180.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/3180