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Shunned Houses : An Anthology ed by S. T. Joshi & Katherine Kerestman

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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 Houses delves 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
Notes on Contributors