"The Fall Of The House Of Usher"

My Life And Adventures
Castle Freeman, Jr.

We had roads that went no place, villages that had disappeared, strange animals and birds, a vanished aristocracy of the mad, trains that weren't there, witty lawyers. It was that kind of place altogether, Bible Hill. Still is. Fleeing the Wreckage of a Murky diplomatic job in a chaotic Latin country, Mark Noon finds himself down-and-out and holed up in a hotel in Mexico. As a last resort, he claims an odd bequest from a long-deceased family friend named Hugo Usher, and comes north to move into a dilapidated farmhouse in the hills of rural Vermont. There, Noon begins to rebuild the house and the fragments of his life. He comes to know the complex histories of the memorable residents of Bible Hill, including Orlando Applegate, the lawyer and town father who becomes Noon's mentor--and Orlando's troubled daughter Amanda, who captures his heart and begins to share her life with him. Noon also discovers the journal of the farm's previous tenant, a bachelor named Claude Littlejohn, whose cryptic diary of weather conditions he finds hidden in a trunk in the attic. As Mark pieces together the secret behind Littlejohn's lonely, hardscrabble life, he embraces his new community and learns to thrive there. My Life and Adventures sets the haunted and transcendentalist New England of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Emerson side by side with the dope farmers and llama herders, survivalists and leaf-peepers of our day. The result is a delightful, unusual novel of one man's estrangement and return.

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Butterfly House
T.K. Sheils

In a small rural town, a frightening evil lurks... Two strangers buy a house together because, not in spite of, the fact that it is reputed to be haunted. They soon come to realize that Time is not on their side as the sinister effects of an evil monk's warped concept of past, present and future are forced upon them. Now even the house itself seems to have developed a life of its own. Can these two innocents escape the evil they have stumbled upon, or will they be trapped for all time...

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Midnight Bayou
Nora Roberts

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana-where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house. Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. All he knew was that ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted--and obsessed-with it. So when the opportunity to buy the house comes up, Declan jumps at the chance to live out a dream. Determined to restore Manet Hall to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room, relying on his own labor and skills. But the days spent in total isolation in the empty house take a toll. He is seeing visions of days from a century past, and experiencing sensations of terror and nearly unbearable grief-sensations not his own, but those of a stranger. Local legend has it that the house is haunted, and with every passing day Declan's belief in the ghostly presence grows. Only the companionship of alluring Angelina Simone can distract him from the mysterious happenings in the house, but Angelina too has her own surprising connection to Manet Hall--a connection that will help Declan uncover a secret that's been buried for a hundred years.

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Bag Of Bones
Stephen King

Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel, Bag of Bones, is a story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of 40-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his word processor. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans' isolated summer home. He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much changed underneath--held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike is drawn into their struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here--and what do they want of Mike Noonan?

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The House On The Borderland
William Hope Hodgson

The narrator and his friend, on a fishing trip in a desolate part of Ireland, come upon a ruinous and deserted house set in an unmapped wilderness of forest and stone. Neither speaks the local language, and so are unwarned about the sinister house--or rather, what is left of a house, on the edge of an apparently bottomless chasm. With foreboding, they try to ignore the isolation and unsettling noises from the pit and the surrounding wood. They explore the ruins, and discover there a moldering book, which portrays--but doesn't explain--the unseen life of the brooding house and the ultimate fate of its vanished inhabitants.

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Kachima Spirit
Marilyn Meredith

Madeline Kennon, a young widow, along with her two children, Norman and Wendy, move into an old Victorian house in Ojai, California in an effort to begin life anew. The house is haunted by several ghosts. Norman, the collector of all things horrible, is delighted. The ghost of a Chumash Native American woman disturbs Madeline's dreams. As she tries to solve the mysteries of their new home, she becomes involved with an intriguing stranger. But it is Norman's policeman friend who saves her from the fate that befell the Indian maiden years before.

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The Passers
David LeMaster

She died to escape him, managing to rip her soul from his vengeance and slip into eternity. A hundred years later, he's calling back her reincarnated soul. They say he made a pact with Satan. They say his spirit inhabits his old home. But whatever they say, one thing is true--something lurks in the Beauregard House, waiting, as an entrepreneur ignores the warnings and converts it to a bed and breakfast. It is the last place his guests will ever stay, for General Elijah Beauregard pulls intruders through time, past each succeeding generation of his half-crazed relatives, and to the feet of the very devil himself.

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Ghostly Encounters: True Stories Of America's Haunted Inns And Hotels
Frances Kermeen

When Frances Kermeen bought The Myrtles Plantation of St. Francisville, LA, in 1980, she did so with a dream of turning the historic site into a cozy inn. Before long, however, her intentions were thrown wildly off course when she discovered that the property was haunted. Surprisingly enough, business for Frances' haunted inn exploded: it seemed everyone wanted to stay in a haunted house. Since then, Frances Kermeen has traveled to over 150 haunted inns and hotels across America and collected some of the creepiest, most spine-tingling ghost stories imaginable from owners and visitors alike-and each one of them is true.

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Nancy Drew #122: The Message In The Haunted Mansion
Carolyn Keene

Nancy, Bess, and George have joined the Drews' housekeeper, Hannah Gruen, on a trip to San Francisco. They have come at the invitation of Hannah's friend Rose Green, who has asked their help in renovating a charming old Victorian mansion. But there may be other, uninvited guests as well: visitors from the past ... spirits who want the place all to themselves. Nancy suspects that there is another force at work--greed. According to legend, a fortune in long-lost gold is hidden on the property, and someone is determined to take it. But in a house full of trapdoors and secret tunnels, falling glass and suspicious fires, finding the truth won't be easy. One misstep, and Nancy won't stand a ghost of a chance!

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Coraline
Neil Gaiman

The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring.... In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages. [Contains half a dozen eBook extras, not available in the standard print edition, including facsimile pages of Neil Gaiman's Coraline noteBook and additional illustrations by Dave McKean.]

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The Haunted House Diary
Louise Hart

Soon after young Kate Sullivan and her family move into a larger house, they begin to suspect they are not its only occupants. Mysterious disembodied footsteps, ringing doorbells, and rapping sounds are just the beginning of the haunt. Are the spirits of the dead trying to communicate with Kate and her family, or is there something else going on?

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The Secret Of Connelly Castle
Dorothy Baughman

When Kathy and Kevin's Connelly's father inherits a castle of sorts from an almost forgotten great-uncle, the family travels to Ireland to sell it. Upon their arrival they meet a strange man who hints that the old place is haunted. The first night in the castle, Kathy is terrified by the ghost of a Lady In Blue. While the parents believe it's a case of an over active imagination, the twins are determined to discover the real secret of Connelly Castle. During their investigation they find an old diary belonging to Sean OBriens father and a riding crop thought to belong to the Blue Lady, only to have both disappear from Kathys room during another ghostly visit. But when they find a secret tunnel, danger awaits in the shadows. Can they escape in time or will the castle's secrets claim them?

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The Endless Place
W. J. Calabrese

Kevin Shaw thought that he had lucked out when he inherited the big old house filled with valuable antiques. He soon finds, however, that the place is not only haunted, but is possessed by demons. His troubles really start when he falls in love with one of the ghosts.

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lost boy lost girl
Peter Straub

A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill--vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law's funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother's suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.

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The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe

One of Poe's most popular works centers around a brother and sister suffering from a mysterious ailment in their ancestral home. Is the home infecting them, or vice-versa? If the Ushers die, will the house die as well?

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