![]() ![]() “Writers choose to work with the haunted house as a means of exploring the complicated feelings we have about ourselves”Īs a reader, I think the haunted house is one of the most persistently frightening concepts. ![]() What is haunting us? How do we react, versus how do we think we ought to react? How do events change us? How much control do we have over the situation, and by extension, ourselves? ![]() So it makes sense that writers choose to work with the haunted house as a means of exploring complicated thoughts and feelings we have about ourselves and our lives. You get home and you slough all of that stuff off and just exist.Ī haunting is an intrusion on the home by some unwanted or unexpected presence. You don’t have to be friendly at home, or professional, or interesting. ![]() It’s where we can be fully ourselves without having to put on the various fronts we adopt for the outside world. I think the haunted house is the perfect space for some kind of self-confrontation or discovery. Before we talk about the books themselves, could you first tell us a little about the pull of the haunted house? What does the persistence of this trope reveal about the human psyche? Thank you for this list of horror novel recommendations, all with a haunted house theme.
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