I'm interested in novel/stories about haunted houses. Anything that would be considered a classic/must-read haunted house story, with ghosts/spirits/entities, as well as any works that stretch or experiment with that, or take their own unique path of what a house or place can do and be: haunted non-home buildings/closets/sewers/carnivals, paranormal places, homes as environmental recordings/"stone tape theory," places that hold memories/traumas, people seeking remembering/healing in them, houses that have a life or soul of their own, houses that move/change, frequently visited buildings in a dream, houses that have doorways to other worlds, houses that have secrets, places that have an eerie mystery/energy. I'm interested in novels (including YA fiction), short stories, graphic novels/comics, non-fiction, or any other media.
Stories that I've read that are on this list for me:
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
Coldheart Canyon & Thief of Always – Clive Barker
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
In Watermelon Sugar & The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western – Richard Brautigan
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
It & The Shining – Stephen King
I'm currently reading The Three-Body Problem – Liu Cixin and I have no idea what is going on just yet but it seems like the entire planet Earth (the biggest house there is) is being haunted by something.
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Hell house
The haunting of hill house
Something in the walls
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*Sumikowa: The Haunting of Higabana Heights* by Tara A. Devlin