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Haunted houses

Here are entered works on houses believed to be actually haunted. Works on displays created for the purpose of scaring guests, usually at Halloween, are entered under Haunted houses (Amusements).

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Dwellings
• Haunted places

• Haunted houses -- Connecticut
• Haunted houses -- England
• Haunted houses -- Fiction
• Haunted houses -- Great Britain
• Haunted houses -- Juvenile fiction
• Haunted houses -- Scotland
• Haunted houses -- Wales

• The Thing From the Lake (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1921), by Eleanor M. Ingram (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales (London: E. Nash, 1908), by Elliott O'Donnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Haunted Houses of London (London: E. Nash, 1909), by Elliott O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• More Haunted Houses of London (London: E. Nash Co., c1920), by Elliott O'Donnell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Ape's-Face (London and New York: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1914), by Marion Inez Douglas Fox
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The House of the Seven Gables (with introduction by Lathrop), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, contrib. by George Parsons Lathrop (Gutenberg text)
• The House of the Seven Gables (edited for school use; Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1902), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Robert Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson (Gutenberg text)
• Cold Harbour (London et al,: W. Collins Sons and Co., c1924), by Francis Brett Young
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Last Tenant (New York: F. M. Lupton Pub. Co., c1893), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at Google
• Sinister House (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Leland Hall, illust. by Haydon Jones (page images at Google; US access only)

• The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain (illustrated edition; London: Reeves and Turner, ca. 1912), by John H. Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Alleged Haunting of B-- House, Including a Journal Kept During the Tenancy of Colonel Lemesurier Taylor (London: G. Redway, 1899), ed. by A. Goodrich-Freer and John Patrick Crichton-Stuart Bute
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales (London: E. Nash, 1908), by Elliott O'Donnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House (c1916), by Ross Kay (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Better Homes in America: Plan Book for Demonstration Week, October 9 to 14, 1922, by Better Homes in America (Gutenberg text)

• The House of All Sorts (1944), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• California Tenants: A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights and Responsibilities (electronic edition; c2010), by California Department of Consumer Affairs (HTML at ca.gov)

• China's Old Dwellings (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c2000), by Ronald G. Knapp (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• Housing Conditions in New Haven (New Haven, CT: Civic Federation of New Haven, Committee on Tenement House Conditions, 1913), by Carol Aronovici (page images at Harvard)

• The Principles and Practice of Modern House-Construction (6 volumes; London et a.: Blackie and Son, Ltd., ca. 1899), ed. by G. Lister Sutcliffe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org

• Supplement to Bicknell's Village Builder, Containing Eighteen Modern Designs for Country and Suburban Houses of Moderate Cost, With Elevations, Plans, Sections, and a Variety of Details (New York: A. J. Bicknell and Co, 1871) (page images at ohiomemory.org)

• More Other Homes and Garbage: Designs for Self-Sufficient Living (originally published 1981), by Jim Leckie, Gilbert M. Masters, Harry Whitehouse, and Lily Y. Young (PDF at Cornell)

• The Lighting Pattern Book for Homes (online edition, 2007), by Russell P. Leslie and Kathryn M. Conway (PDF files with commentary at RPI)

• The Home Mechanic: A Manual for Industrial Schools and Amateurs (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1905), by John Wright
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Samoan House Building, Cooking, and Tattooing (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #15; Honolulu: The Museum, 1924), by E. S. Craighill Handy and Willowdean C. Handy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Security Handbook, by Crime and Violence Prevention Center (Calif.) (PDF at UCSC)

• The Bungalow Book (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Charles E. White (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text)

• A Manual on School-Houses and Cottages for the People of the South, by C. Thurston Chase (page images at MOA)

• The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, Farm-Houses, and Villas; With Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the Best Modes of Warming and Ventilating (fifteenth thousand; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1859), by A. J. Downing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House: A Pocket Manual of Rural Architecture: or, How to Build Country Houses and Out-Buildings, by Daniel Harrison Jacques (page images at MOA)
• Rural Homes: or, Sketches of Houses Suited to American Country Life, With Original Plans, Designs, &c. (New York: C. Scribner, 1852), by Gervase Wheeler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)

• When to Do House Cleaning Jobs (1972), by United States Department of Agriculture
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at archives.gov; pages may be in reverse order in some browsers

• Houseboat Days in China, by J. O. P. Bland (illustrated HTML at talesofoldchina.com)
• Virginia: The Old Dominion, As Seen From its Colonial Waterway, the Historic River James (Boston: The Page Co., 1921), by Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
  • HTML and page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Regional Guidelines for Building Passive Energy Conserving Homes (Washington: Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1978), by AIA Research Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by Frank J. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sybaris and Other Homes, by Edward Everett Hale (page images at MOA)

• Plank-And-Beam Framing for Residential Buildings (c2003), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)

• Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines (Washington, DC: Government Print. Office, 1881), by Lewis Henry Morgan
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Modern Maya Houses: A Study of Their Archaeological Significance (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #502; 1938), by Robert Wauchope (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beauty for Ashes (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1914), by Albion Fellows Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Recent Trends in American Housing (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction (third edition; London: The Society For Improving The Condition Of The Labouring Classes, ca. 1853), by Henry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing Famine, How to End It: A Triangular Debate, by John J. Murphy, Edith Elmer Wood, and Frederick Lee Ackerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Housing Problem in War and Peace (1918), by Charles Harris Whitaker, Frederick Lee Ackerman, Richard S. Childs, and Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sybaris and Other Homes, by Edward Everett Hale (page images at MOA)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.