Top 5 Haunted House Books Fun Fiction for Architecture Lovers: Haunted House BooksA dilapidated old Victorian house may be an architect's nightmare, but it's the perfect environment to enjoy a spooky novel about haunted houses. Here are a few of our all-time favorites. Be sure to also check out our companion piece on real-life haunted houses around the world. A turn-of-the-century mansion, built out of arrogance and greed, becomes a living spirit in Joyce Reardon's page-turning novel. Mysteriously in the night, the house grows, creating a maze of hallways, chambers and twisting stairways into which wanderers vanish. ISBN: 0786890436 Author Shirley Jackson describes the fictional Hill House as a foreboding structure "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...." Her ghostly tale unfolds amidst towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms. ISBN: 0140071083 A wonderful anthology of new and classic short stories, for those who like their shivers in small doses. Peter Haining has assembled works from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, L. P. Hartley, James Herbert, and many more, in this 512-page paperback guaranteed to produce nightmares. ISBN: 0786707917 "Wendy, I'm home!" Who can forget a possessed Jack Nicholson's creepy greeting to his wife in the movie based on Stephen King's novel? Strange things happen when the Torrances become winter caretakers at the Overlook Hotel, a place that contains an awesome power and a horrible past that only 5 year old Danny can see. One of King's most engrossing stories of all time. ISBN: 0743424425 Stephen King once said "Richard Matheson's 'Hell House' is the scariest haunted house novel ever written," and we agree. All those sent to investigate Belasco House were ultimately destroyed by murder, suicide, or insanity. Now, for the first time in two decades, a new team has been assembled to dissect the secrets of the haunted mansion. Will they meet the same horrible fate? ISBN: 0312868855 | 
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