A CRIB NOTES MUST-READ FOR SPOOKY SEASON
'Glorious' PHILIP HOARE
'A supernatural safari - just the sort of book to read over Halloween' DAILY MAIL
'EXCELLENT' LEON CRAIG
'Every horror fan, coffin boffin and certified creep needs to read this book' ALICE SLATER
'As absorbing and seductive as any fictional ghost story' BRIDGET COLLINS
Do you have what it takes to cross the threshold?
Crumbling turrets, crenelated walls, creaking floorboards. We all know a haunted house when we see - or feel - one. That creeping sense of wrongness. An icy shiver stealing down the spine.
But why do certain structures set this super-sensory alarm bell jangling, while others leave us unmoved? Can a house be purpose-built to be haunted? And does a building need a bloody legacy to set the skin tingling?
Tiptoe through the haunted gallery at Hampton Court Palace, encounter the spectral residents of Chillingham Castle and lose yourself in the labyrinthine layout of Winchester Mystery House as Caitlin Blackwell Baines unravels the psyche, the history and the folkloric fabrication that make a haunted house take on a life of its own.
Enter if you dare...
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How to Build a Haunted House
The History of a Cultural Obsession
- 306 pages
- English
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Topic
Personal DevelopmentSubtopic
TravelTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Author’s note
- Introduction
- 1 Strawberry Hill House: The birth of ‘gloomth’
- 2 Chillingham Castle: Besieged from within
- 3 Borley Rectory: New haunts for old ghosts
- 4 Hampton Court: The ghosts of fame
- 5 The Myrtles Plantation: Enslaved by a haunted history
- 6 Raynham Hall: The death of the English country house
- 7 The Amityville Horror: Ghosts on film
- 8 The Winchester Mystery House: The architecture of a haunting
- 9 Global ghosts: The haunted house at home and abroad
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
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