The Haunt of Home

The Haunt of Home
Author: Zachary Michael Jack
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501751808

What does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age have explored the American Gothic and the homegrown fatalism that flourish in many of the nation's most far-flung and forgotten places. The Haunt of Home introduces us to a cast of real-life Midwestern characters grappling with the Gothic in their own lives, from promising young professionals debating the perennial "Should I stay or should I go" dilemma, to recent émigrés and entrepreneurs seeking personal reinvention, to faithful boosters determined to keep their communities alive despite the odds. In The Haunt of Home Zachary Michael Jack considers the many ways a region's abiding spirit shapes the ethos of a land and its people, offering portraits of others who, like himself, are determined to live out the unique promise and predicament of the Gothic.

How to Haunt a House

How to Haunt a House
Author: Carolyn Crimi
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807534277

Clever ghosts-in-training solve a scary haunted house problem. Groana, Moana, and Shrieky are three little ghosties learning the tricks to giving a good scare. They stomp around, spook family pets, and slam toilet seats. They're all set to pass their Halloween test, until they find a family that doesn't scare easily. In fact, they LOVE everything the ghosties send their way—especially the bats and rats! What does it take to horrify a household like this one? Sometimes you have to think outside the box (or casket!) to find a way around a problem.

Who Will Haunt My House on Halloween?

Who Will Haunt My House on Halloween?
Author: Jerry Pallotta
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2008-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0439025214

It's Halloween night. While a mother is upstairs getting her daughter's costume ready, lots of trick-or-treaters stop by the house -- from werewolves, ghosts, and zombies to witches, bats, dinosaurs, and more! But are they really real? Jerry Pallotta and David Biedrzycki team up again in this spine-tingling story that's as giggle-inducing as Who Will Help Santa This Year and Who Will Guide My Sleigh Tonight?

How to Haunt a House

How to Haunt a House
Author: John Shephard
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1994
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780679867425

Everything kids need to know to hold a seance in which curtains move, chains rattle, objects levitate, and mysterious voices call from the "world beyond". They'll get complete instructions on how to transform a home into a spooky, blood-curdling, fun-filled haunted house.

How to Haunt Your House, Book Three

How to Haunt Your House, Book Three
Author: Lynne Mitchell
Publisher: Rabbit Hole Productions
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0985630434

How to Haunt Your House, Book Three has risen up from the grave once more! Find out how to take your Halloween decorating to the next level. This year, cross over to the over side of Halloween decorating and bring our your inner spirit--The one that longs for dark corners and spider webs! You don't have to wait till you're dead to create these incredible props. Wouldn't a Werewolf Rug look perfect in front of the fireplace? How about a Brain Bubbler for the kitchen? Find out how to turn a living room into a Fortune Tellers Den or set the time on a Witch's Clock. There's something for just about every room in the haunted house. So get out the glue gun and start sharpening those files. It's time to perfect the art of haunt decor! For more great tips and videos visit us at: www.howtohauntyourhouse.com

How to Sell a Haunted House

How to Sell a Haunted House
Author: Grady Hendrix
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2023-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593201280

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times "Ingenious."-The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else. When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market. But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them… Like his novels The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifying—a gripping new read from “the horror master” (USA Today).

How to Haunt Your House, Book One

How to Haunt Your House, Book One
Author: Lynne Mitchell
Publisher: Rabbit Hole Productions
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2009-03-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0985630418

If you are looking to raise the coffin lid a little higher this Halloween, try out some of these spooky projects and tips. From simple to advanced there is something here to make your next Halloween party or home haunt even spookier. Halloween is for grown-ups too-- the projects in this book are not intended for children, but for the creative, adults who want to handcraft their own Halloween home haunt and graveyard fun.

The Carrow Haunt

The Carrow Haunt
Author: Darcy Coates
Publisher: Black Owl Books
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Remy is a tour guide for the notoriously haunted Carrow House. The old place is a haunt for the superstitious, but Remy hasn't seen any proof of the paranormal yet. So when she's asked to host guests for a week-long stay in order to research Carrow's phenomena, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it's everything they hoped for. Then a storm moves in, cutting off their contact with the outside world, and things quickly take a sinister turn. Doors open on their own. Séances go disastrously wrong. Their spirit medium wanders through the house at night, seemingly in a trance. But it isn't until one of the guests dies under strange circumstances that Remy is forced to consider the possibility that the ghost of the house's original owner―a twisted serial killer―still walks the halls. And by then it's too late to escape…

Home, Sweet Haunt

Home, Sweet Haunt
Author: P.J. Night
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442472413

Every home has its secrets…For Nora, the truth starts to be revealed on Halloween night. It’s been a bad few months for Nora Wilson. There was a huge fire in her family’s apartment this summer, and her parents have been acting superweird ever since. They won’t let her or her brother out of the apartment anymore, not even to go to school. So when Nora’s parents say she can go trick-or-treating on Halloween, Nora is thrilled. And she’s even more thrilled to make a new friend, Caitlin, who just moved into the apartment building. Caitlin knows nothing about what happened to Nora’s family, but she does seem to know a lot about the ghosts that are rumored to haunt the building. As she shares these ghost stories with Nora, Nora can’t help but be chilled by them. Are they hitting just a little too close to home? This spooky story is rated a Level 4 on the Creep-o-Meter.

This House Is Haunted

This House Is Haunted
Author: John Boyne
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590516796

A Dickensian ghost story from the bestselling author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky “A wonderfully creepy novel…magnificently eerie.” —The Observer This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during her travels, she is greeted by the two children now in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There is no adult present to represent her mysterious employer, and the children offer no explanation. Later that night in her room, another terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong. From the moment Eliza rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence that lives within Gaudlin’s walls. Eliza realizes that if she and the children are to survive its violent attentions, she must first uncover the hall’s long-buried secrets and confront the demons of its past. Clever, captivating, and witty, This House Is Haunted is pure entertainment with a catch.