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A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together. [1] The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921 : [2] "A Haunted House" "Monday ...
The Haunted House in All the Year Round (1859) "The Haunted House" is a set of short stories published in 1859 for the weekly periodical All the Year Round. [1] It was "Conducted by Charles Dickens", with Charles Dickens writing the opening and closing stories, framing stories by Dickens himself and five other authors.
Stories of haunted houses appear in the Arabian Nights, as in the tale of "Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad". [55] The first gothic novel , The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole , is set in a haunted castle, as is " The Canterville Ghost ", a humorous short story from 1887 by Oscar Wilde .
Haunted battlefields are a common theme in ghostlore, often attributed to the violent deaths and residual energy left behind from the conflict. [63] The belief in ghosts and the paranormal is a cultural phenomenon found in many societies, and the stories surrounding haunted battlefields reflect this belief.
The Haunted Doll's House" is a 1923 short story by M. R. James, collected by him in A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). It was commissioned by Queen Mary , wife of George V , as a miniature book for her famous Dolls' House , which can still be seen in Windsor Castle .
The horror inherent in the novel does not lie in Hill House (monstrous though it is) or the events that take place within it, but in the unexplored recesses of its characters' – and its readers' – minds. This is perhaps why it remains the definitive haunted house story". [13] In 2016, in The Guardian, author Joanne Harris described the book as:
The Haunted Dolls' House; The Haunter of the Dark; He (short story) Herbert West–Reanimator; Here There Be Tygers (1968 short story) The Hollow of the Three Hills; Home Delivery (short story) Hop-Frog; The Horla; The Horror at Red Hook; The Horror in the Museum; The Horror of the Heights; The Hotel at the End of the Road; Hungry Daughters of ...
The Haunted Pampero is a collection of fantasy and other short stories by William Hope Hodgson. It was first published in 1992 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 500 copies, all of which were signed by the editor, Sam Moskowitz .