As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train.
Can any soul survive? Chris Riddells illustration of Neil Gaimans The Graveyard Book, in which the graveyard is a haunted home like no other. Ada Goth lives at haunted Ghastly-Gorm Hall, the only child of Lord Goth who is mad, bad and dangerous to gnomes. A classic! Some haunted houses hold a lot of spirits; some hold one very particular ghost. Later that night in her room, a second terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong.
Four spend the night in the house and will never be the same. 7 - The Shining by Stephen King.
But the fact of the matter is that some of the scariest haunted houses in fiction arent houses at all.
And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.
A family of five, the Wilkinsons die after a second world war bomb falls on their house. This one is a Stay Away Housea job the governess should never have taken at a place she should have left the second she saw that strange figure atop the houses tower.
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This ghost tale never disappoints.
The classic still stands at the top.
Whether its Shirley Jacksons (or Mike Flanagans) Hill House, Stephen Kings Overlook Hotel, The Good House from Tananarive Dues novel of the same name or the Freeling home in Poltergeist, every horror fan has a haunted house thats burned into the center of their imagination. The Lutz family buys a large Dutch Colonial in the Long Island town of Amityville for a song, after the previous tenants, the DeFeos, were murdered by son Ronald DeFeo. We are taking a tour through haunted houses in literature! Here then, are some of its predecessors, notable haunted houses, taxonomized as Hungry or Stay Away: Hill House is the modern horror genres original Hungry House. The crew of the starship Gum & World 4470 Vaster Than Empires and More Slow, Ursula K LeGuin. The New York Public Library is a 501(c)(3) | EIN 13-1887440, Living Dangerously: 13 Haunted House Novels, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL).
In any other writers hands, the pure potential of this setup would be scary enough, but because this is a Damien Angelica Walters novel, what starts as an unsettling and deeply human tale of loss and fear gradually transforms into something far more nuanced, frightening and absolutely marvelous. The Navidson House House of Leaves, Mark Z Danielewski. Another entry from the estimable Ms. Jackson. For those who find out, its already too late. On the day they moved in, a priest invited to bless the house was told by an unseen voice to "Get out!"
Three nights of terror in a house called Edbrook.
The only catch: they have to prepare meals for the elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and also that the house itself is very hungry.
But it can't be the house's fault, right? Even their rule book, The Good Ghost Guide, makes no bones about it; they are tied to heart and home for ever. We publish your favorite authorseven the ones you haven't read yet.
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The Silver women have always had a strong connection, a pull over one another that reaches across time and space.
The graveyard is not strictly a haunted house but its definitely a haunted home. By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
One of the best horror comics out there, Gideon Falls is a haunted house story by way of cosmic horror, encompassing numerous stories, time periods, and void-faced monsters lurking just beyond the shadows. Ostensibly the story of a police detective by the name of E.N.
The idea of a haunted house is terrifying precisely because a home is supposed to be safe. The Photo Album Paper Tigers, Damien Angelica Walters. If you've got the key to this particular Chicago home, referred to as the House, you can travel through time.
Its a carnivorous thoughtform, a place-as-tulpa, but its also a real building of brick and mortar and wood and blood and bone. The power of trauma, social disapprobation, and secrets comingle to create a de facto Hungry House, the titular castle that the girls cannotand do not want toescape, and that seems will keep them forever in the end. A labyrinth of hallways and secret passages, the hotel is irresistible to curious kids, partly due to their having read some of the same ghost stories that provided its inspiration in real life.
Originally published in Japan in 1986, Koike's novel is the suspenseful tale of a young family whobelieve theyhavefound the perfect home to grow into, only to realize the apartment's idyllic setting harbors the specter of evil, and that the longer they stay, the more trapped they become. Meanwhile, in their new home, the Lutz family were embarking on the most terrifying experience of their lives.
6 - The House on Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.
Hogwarts is an institution where ghosts are not simply tolerated, they are part of the furniture.
Young wizards and witches may come and go but the resident ghosts are a permanent fixture.
Its like a set of Matryoshka dolls filled with nightmares: Flood is haunted by the Cult is haunted by Gravey is haunted by well, something else (that goes by the name Darrel, naturally).
The titular house in my new novel The Hotel Neversink is something of a hybrid, a Stay Away/Hungry.
In Shirley Jackson's famous novel, the house itself is a bad seed.
From Peeves to Nearly Headless Nick, the castle harbours some truly delicious spirits.
Now of no fixed abode, these ghosts meet two elderly sisters who run a charity for displaced ghosts.
Well-written.
First theres Jolene, the shrieking swamp witch with a strange, pseudo-sexual fixation on Charles; there are the spider-wired Deadheads that haunt every street and neighborhood screaming commercials at the top of their lungs; and thats to say nothing of the Apocalypse Brigades, the plague machines, and whatever the strange, shiny sphere is that Charles best friend Ezekiel had implanted in the back of his own head.
Of course, Casper lives here too, but is rather at odds with the others, opting for a less confrontational approach. Poor Ada is forced to clump around the house in big boots as her father believes children should be heard and not seen. But Hill House is gathering its powersand will soon choose one of them to make its own. Eliza realises that if she and the children are to survive its violent attentions, she must first uncover the halls long-buried secrets and confront the demons of its past. Read by candlelight.
When a paranormal researcher invites a group of people with supernatural experiences come to Hill House, it quickly becomes evident that the house is indeed haunted and bent on possessing Eleanor, an unstable young woman.
It's just your house!
Houses aren't always haunted by something supernatural; sometimes, they're haunted by murder. The setup for Gideon Falls reads like a nightmare version of a riddle: what do you call a malevolent, time-traveling, reality-hopping barn that devours people out of thin air?
"It came closer, a shapeless monstrosity of darknesstremendous. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals.
Supposedly based on the true story of the Lutz family house, this one had everything from bees to voices in the walls, fever spells and green slime.
It began when their five-year-old daughter boasted of her new playmate, someoneor somethingnamed "Jodie.".
When James and his family move to an old cottage in the village of Ledsham, Oxfordshire, it appears idyllic. As Charles somehow persists through the madness that befalls him at every turn, the masked God grows from distant overlord into an omnipresent phantom from which there may be no escape.
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This is perhaps an odd entry, but Wuthering Heights occupies dual status as a literary and gothic classic, and its titular manor is both figuratively and literally haunted by the intensity of Heathcliff and Catherines doomed love.
A bit long and verbose, but there are some very nice scenes in this tale.
When they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer too good to refuse. Most readers know of at least one house they have come across that left them feeling a little off, or on-edge, without really knowing why.
Now, Hollys brother has gone missing while researching Elizabeth Stuart and the mysteries of the house.
While the evil lurking in the jungle may be supernatural in nature, or just a freak of evolution gone gruesomely wrong, what makes The Ruins a prime entry on this list is its merciless examination of the fear and reverence with which the people in the village just outside of its grasp treat it.
Not all haunted houses are oldsome are brand new.
But builders have smashed an old green bottle in the attic releasing its tricky 17th century occupant.
The United States of America 300,000,000, Blake Butler.
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This country house looks lovely from the outside, until the inhabitants discover that the inside dimensions are three-fourths of an inch longer than the outside dimensions.
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As award-winning horror writer Stephen Graham Jones writes, there are two types of haunted houses in fiction: Stay Away Houses and Hungry Houses. Mr. Rochester's mansion is full of long hallways, plenty of unused rooms, a troubled owner who's always leaving, and a terrible secret in the attic.
Creepy, relatable, and wonderfully atmospheric, the story of Ines Murillo at highly-secretive and exceptionally prestigious university Catherine House is a slow-burn of a book that willfully refuses to reveal its ghosts before its ready.
Awesome Inc. theme. Still, quite a scary haunted house story and worth a second look.
Jack Torrance and his family are lured there by economic need, but the hotel does the rest, driving him insane and eventually killing him. Building on Jacksons model, Kings Overlook is the Hungry House par excellence.
At the Sedgewick hotel in New York the ghosts come as complimentary extras.
A house is supposed to be a safe space, a shelter from evilbut what do you do when the evil comesfrom within?
The children offer no explanation.
George and Kathleen Lutz were aware the house had been the scene of a mass murderRonnie DeFeo, 23, was convicted of shooting his parents, brothers, and sisters. Granted, there are vampires, but it's a spooky set up at the old house in the 'Lot.
The spooky setting, the creaky stairs, the mirrors with strange images and don't forget the ghosts. As the novella progresses, we learn that during her lifetime, the woman in black watched from one of Eel Marsh House's windows while her young son was killed in a carriage accident right outside. It should be beyond us, and yet it seems so closely interested in what makes us tick. Suffused with dread and chlorophyll in equal measure, he wrings every available ounce of fear from the jungle our main characters find themselves trapped in. Flood soon gives way to the Cult, then to Gravey himself, and finally to the thing that drives Gravey. When Jane Eyre arrives at Thornfield, she notices that a very chill and vault-like air pervaded the stairs and gallery, suggesting cheerless ideas of space and solitaire. There's also a lot of weird, ghosty laughter that floats around after midnight.
In a hotel in the Colorado mountains during a winter break, nothing is left between the caretakers and the spooky remnants still roaming the halls.
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At first, you wont want to leave. 10 - The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert.
Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment. Darkly beguiling, this graveyard is a haunted home like no other.
While not necessarily a typical horror tale (LeGuin described it as a traditional science fiction story), the first time I read Vaster Than Empires and More Slow, I was floored by how absolutely damned unnerving the whole thing was. 1867.
Get new fiction, essays, and poetry delivered to your inbox. What starts as a saga of two lonely, desperate characters slowly grows and warps in increasingly nightmarish, mind-bending ways to encompass the whole of the town of Gideon Falls and, eventually, reality itself.
Though with four trade paperback volumes out and the fifth scheduled for release on December 1, 2020, we wont be waiting long. This is fine until the spirits get out of hand and guests start disappearing.
Two previous expeditions to investigate its secrets met with disaster, the participants destroyed by murder, suicide or insanity.
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But Mrs. Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room, and it soon becomes clear that something weird and terrifying is happening in the house.
Maybe you're losing your mind. It seemed to slip across the night, sleepilya very hell-fog.".
Colquitt and Walter Kennedy enjoyed a life of lazy weekends, gathering with the neighbors on their quiet, manicured street and sipping drinks on their patios.
Like the Black Barn in Gideon Falls, the Navidson House is a sort of cosmic horror unto itself, a place where reality doesnt just wear thin, its pulled into capellini and thrown by the fistful into a yawning, bottomless pit.
Some of the scariest hauntings are borne out of trauma, and in no other book is this fact examined with such dread and empathy as Damien Angelica Walters Paper Tigers.
When the sister dies, the brother decides to preserve her corpse for a fortnight in one of the numerous vaults within the main walls of the building. Never bury a corpse in the walls of a haunted house, because this funeral rite results in the destruction of all involved, including the house itself. Nevertheless, there is always at least one person daring enough to check in at the Overlook Hotel or spend the night at Hill House.
Canterville Chase is haunted by the grumpy spirit of Sir Simon de Canterville. As the exterminators first job, it proves to be something of a baptism of fire.
The idea of home is supposed to be comforting. The story follows Alison, a horribly scarred young woman navigating the trauma from the loss of the life she used to know, who soon discovers a photo album in a curio shop that is far more terrifying and alive than it seems at the outset. Its as if the occupants left at a moments notice and never returned. There are no parents, no adults at all, and no one to represent Eliza'smysterious employer. Creaky floorboards, cobwebs, chains: you name it, the haunted houses in Scooby Doo are printed upon my visual memory, as technicolour as 70s strawberry Angel Delight. Read all of these at night by the light of a candle inside a jack o' lantern for full effect. Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed scenes of almost unimaginable horror and depravity. Well, probably quaking in a haunted house somewhere. Concealed among the wooded hills of Oxfordshire, the ruins of Ashdowne Housecarry a legacy of secrets, deceit, and destiny.
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, youll find the entrance to Slade House.
Everything.
The Black Barn Gideon Falls, Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino. The story of a team of Surveyors traveling to document World 4470, a seemingly-uninhabited dark green jewel of a planet as they cope with their own litany of interpersonal problems and the brutish, unseen force attacking them from the shadows, Vaster Than Empires doesnt waste any time turning up the tension.
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