haunt

When Mr. DiCesare approached, Lorraine refused to shake his hand, as if he himself were haunted.

Set in Ohio in the 1870s, “Beloved” features a theme of modern horror: Old crimes can come back to haunt you.

Amina’s sleepwalking—a concept inconceivable to the villagers, who think the town is haunted—gets her in trouble, and is here a manifestation of her “otherness” and innate resistance to the community’s rigidity.

Insisting he was unbowed, he said the deaths would be “the fuel of victory, the path to Jerusalem and a stain that will forever haunt the occupation.”

McMahon’s brush with cancer might have been brief, relatively speaking, but the experience continued to haunt him long after he was given the all-clear.