Mystical Angels

need creepy ghost songs.?

i read the book "The living and the Dying" and i have to make a soundtrack that represents scenes/themes/moments. Whether you read the book or not i need songs about ghosts or being haunted by them. Here is some info: In Natale Ghent's The Book of Living and Dying, the daily experiences of a high school senior, Sarah, are punctuated by horrible flashbacks to hospital scenes. Sarah is mourning the death, from cancer, of her elder brother John. These unpleasant memories relate to his terminal illness. Or do they? Sarah is haunted by her brother. The odor of earth and rain signal his approach. His appearances, to sit on her bed, are not a source of comfort; rather, she pleads with him to go away. Ongoing headaches plague her, for which she takes codeine. Sarah has no adult to confide in, as her father predeceased her brother, and her mother is withdrawn. At school, she has only two friends, Peter, who is over-protective and wants to be her boyfriend, and Donna, a daring rebel. This highly descriptive and evocative work seems to be moving along the lines of a traditional teen "problem novel," until Sarah meets a new student. His name, Michael Mort, should signal to anyone who knows French that he is more than just a teenage boy. Michael Mort looks older than seventeen and sports a goatee. His "dark, brooding looks" convey "thinly veiled disdain." He has a coyote tattooed on his shoulder and explains that in mythology it is a trickster with the power to assume other forms. Michael Mort's hobby is taking still photos and animating them, creating videos in which the person seems to be alive. He makes such a video of John. He and Sarah fall in love. Donna suggests that John may be haunting Sarah because he is "in limbo" and having trouble "crossing over." In a book store, the girls come upon a Book of Living and Dying, which may be the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Sarah reads that hauntings are rarely violent but are generated by the living person's thoughts of the deceased and their incapacity to atone. Death can be confusing for the dead, she reads. They can get lost on their journey. The living must hold a ritual so that the dead person knows what has happened to him. Author Natale Ghent excels in employing tried-and-true symbols and plot devices to create an unsettling atmosphere. These include trap doors, woodland circle ceremonies with magic mushrooms, Tarot cards, a visit to Salem and a fortune teller. The dying kingfisher, which appears toward the end of the novel, ultimately ties in with a broken blue bottle but is interesting as an allusion to the Fisher King, a legend of death and rebirth that one finds in the Arthurian legends, in Percival, and The Wasteland. The cover blurb of this novel suggests that it is a cautionary tale about the consequences of abusing alcohol and drugs and taking up with bad companions. It isn't! Rather, it is a story of the supernatural in the same category as the movies, Sixth Sense and Crossing Jordan. For much of the story, Sarah does not know what is real and what she is imagining, and neither does the reader. One assumes that the hospital flashbacks pertain to John's illness, but since the patient is not specified, they could apply to Sarah, as could Donna's remarks that the dead sometimes don't know they're deceased and must be eased into death. This novel cries out to become a horror movie. Along with staple devices from film and literature, Ms. Ghent brings her own warped slant on something as wholesome as the coming of spring. Sarah, looking out her window, sees the hatching of baby birds as depressing.

Public Comments

1. I'm a big fan of this book and think that Delirium Cordia by Fantomas would be perfect. Not only is it really spooky it is also by Michael Mort's favorite musician Mike Patton! This way you have music for your soundtrack and a tie in to the story as well. Hope this helped!