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Trade Paperback. A carefully chosen anthology of Weird Tales, Poems, & Essays with which to haunt dark chambers.
Some say home is where the heart is, but what if the heart in your home is the "Tell-Tale Heart"?
Houses can be reservoirs of joy . . . or misery. When this affective power endures, a place is said to be "haunted." When this energy for good or evil continues-especially when it touches people who were not involved in the primary circumstance which occurred in that location-then a place is considered alive. Places, then, may serve as portals through which a person can enter into the past, both psychically and physically; moreover, the effects of a place upon a person may influence what happens going forward. Places are causes, and they are effects.
One's home is a special place, and yet even your home may be infused with doubtful associations. At the end of a stressful day at work, you may want to run home-to the house that functions as a harbor, shelter, or castle; on the other hand, a home is sometimes a place to run away from, a cage or a trap. Perhaps the best we can do is hope that we live in a benevolent house.
Shunned Housesdelves into that larger realm through more than three dozen classic and contemporary short stories, poems, and essays by masters of the craft.
Contents:
Introduction
Katherine Kerestman & S. T. Joshi
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The House in the Arena
William Hope Hodgson
The Haunted House
Cristel Hastings
A Haven for the Homeless
Frank Coffman
The House of Terror
A. E. W. Mason
The Haunted Palace
Edgar Allan Poe
Empty Bottles
John Shirley
The Midnight Hour
Algernon Blackwood
Soul House
Kyla Lee Ward
Endless
Anna Taborska
The House
H. P. Lovecraft
Napier Court
Ramsey Campbell
House of the Lost
Ian Futter
A Night in an Old Castle
G. P. R. James
House
Rebecca Fraser
Two Haunted Houses
Ambrose Bierce
Dark House of Hunger
D. L. Myers
View
Tom Fletcher
All Hallows Harvest
Michael Potts
The Haunted House
John Greenleaf Whittier
The Scarlet Room
Adam Bolivar
A Life in Rocks
Jonathan Thomas
The Dark House
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Shave Your Bounty
Michael Aronovitz
The Ghost House
Robert Frost
Misery Cottage
H. A. Manhood
Papered Over
Ann K. Schwader
The Space
Jacob Moon
Letter to Licinius Sura
Pliny the Younger
Beach Shanty
Katherine Kerestman
The Inn
Guy de Maupassant
Haunted Houses
Im Bang
The Woman in the Wall
DJ Tyrer
Three at Table
W. W. Jacobs
The Witches’ House
Margaret Curtis
At the Home of Poe
Frank Belknap Long
The Darkness of Building 727
Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
The Haunted House at Kensington
Jessie Adelaide Middleton
The Haunted Castle
Lilla Price Savino
The Red Ensign
Tony LaMalfa
An Empty House at Night
Cristel Hastings
Haunted House
Katherine Kerestman
the cellar
Lori R. Lopez
With One Look
Maxwell I. Gold
The House at Black Tooth Pond
Stephen Mark Rainey
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