Danielewskis House of Leaves.Īnd theres also this book, Horrorstr, a short horror novel (with strong humor elements) written by Grady Hendrix. Horror writers love this stuff, too you can find horror wrapped around modern suburban and retail settings in films like Poltergeist and Dawn of the Dead (and many other early-outbreak zombie movies) and in books and stories like Stephen Kings The Mist, Anne Rivers Siddons The House Next Door, and Mark Z. The suburban home built over an Indian graveyard, the supermarket with bloody handprints appearing mysteriously on the freezer cases, the trendy nightclub plagued by unusual deaths and fashionable vampires. Theres something wonderful about an old abandoned house (or mansion or castle or hotel or insane asylum), dilapidated, decaying, overgrown, crumbling, filled with creaking doors, dark shadows, creepy dolls, and something sinister that whispers from the attic.īut theres also a place in my heart for a modern, clean, brightly-lit building thats nevertheless crawling with the unquiet spirits of the dead. I love a classic haunted house as much as anyone.
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