A dilapidated old Victorian house may be an architect's nightmare, but it's the perfect environment to enjoy a spooky novel about haunted houses. In these creepy tales, architecture plays a staring role with houses that change shapes, make scary noises, and take on horrific, surreal personalities.
A turn-of-the-century mansion, built out of arrogance and greed, becomes a living spirit in Joyce Reardon's page-turning novel. Mysteriously in the night, the house grows, creating a maze of hallways, chambers and twisting stairways where wanderers vanish.
Author Shirley Jackson describes the fictional Hill House as a foreboding structure "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...." Her ghostly tale unfolds amidst towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms.
A wonderful anthology of new and classic short stories, for those who like their shivers in small doses. Peter Haining has assembled works from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, L. P. Hartley, James Herbert, and many more, in this 512-page paperback guaranteed to produce nightmares.
"Wendy, I'm home!" Who can forget a possessed Jack Nicholson's creepy greeting to his wife in the movie based on Stephen King's novel? Strange things happen when the Torrances become winter caretakers at the Overlook Hotel, a place that contains an awesome power and a horrible past that only 5-year-old Danny can see. One of Stephen King's most engrossing stories of all time.
Stephen King once said "Richard Matheson's 'Hell House' is the scariest haunted house novel ever written," and we agree. All those sent to investigate Belasco House were ultimately destroyed by murder, suicide, or insanity. Now, for the first time in two decades, a new team has been assembled to dissect the secrets of the haunted mansion. Will they meet the same horrible fate?
When Jay Anson wrote
The Amityville Horror, he claimed the story was true. Fortunately, the terrifying experiences of paranormal activity in a pretty suburban house proved to be mostly fabrications. Still, the tale is chilling and, if you want, you can drive by the real
Amityville Horror house in Amityville, New York.
