Haunted houses I have known and loved
Submitted by cmonster on Sat, 01/10/2009 - 11:06
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- Peril at End House - Agatha Christie Spoiler: Highlight to view(about the lengths some people will go for their houses)
- House - Josh Simmons (abandoned mental institution eats three teenagers, refuses to explain itself)
- House of Mystery (vols 1-4) - Sturges & Rossi (who knows what secrets lurk in the souls of old houses?)
- Still of the Night - Meagan McKinney (Where a house clings to the past and the old women who keep the flame. Also? SECRET PASSAGEWAYS)
- The Red Tree - Caitlin R Kiernan (Which is really about a house, trust me)
- Jerusalem's Lot - Stephen King (A little peek at how the whole mess got started)
- There Was a Crooked House - Robert Heinlein (house which is easier to enter than leave)
- The Haunting of the New - Ray Bradbury (a newly built house retains its purity by evicting its debauched owners)
- Murder of Angels - Caitlin R Kiernan (house continues on its rampage of bad bad things, this time in two separate dimensions)
- Bloodroot - Susan Wittig Albert (Mississippi plantation haunted by the sins of the Old South)
- Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake (sprawling house haunted by many generations of crazy vs changeling)
- Flora Segunda - Ysabeau S Wilce (haunted library vs impressionable girl)
- The Game of Sunken Places - MT Anderson (complicated haunted house in Vermont vs school boys, um, and forest)
- The Wicked Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House - Mary Chase (crazy sisters vs schoolgirl)
- Everything's Eventual - Stephen King (hotel vs well, everyone)
- House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski (house vs time and space)
- Drawing Blood - Poppy Z Brite (house vs. survivor)
- Little, Big - John Crowley (house vs. faery-haters)
- The Strange Adventures of Ranger Girl - Tim Pratt (haunted cafe attacks downtown Santa Cruz)
- The Edgar and Ellen series - Charles Ogden (haunted house vs normalcy and regular schooling)
- The Shining - Stephen King (haunted house vs broken/damaged/haunted family)
- Salems Lot by Stephen King (evil/haunted house drawing evil people vs broken town/haunted man)
- Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (haunted house vs sceptics/believers/closeted lesbians)
- Silk - Caitlin R Kiernan (house where bad, bad bad things happen)
- The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons (a house *born* haunted vs anyone who lives there and their neighbors)
With many thanks to catyah and little_tristan.