haunted house theme
There is an otherwise ordinary house which is surreptitiously inhabited by a supernatural being. Typically the being is the spirit of someone who has died.
Examples
In nightgallery1x03b "Certain Shadows on the Wall" the spirit of Emma Brigham lingered in order to haunt her brother and murdered, Dr. Stephen Brigham.
28 total · 4 choice · 16 major · 8 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp1x31 | choice | Howard spent a night in the supposedly haunted Hurstwood mansion. |
| as1985e1x17 | choice | The story centers around a married couple of ill-repute being reluctantly driven out of their new home by the good-natured ghosts of its previous owners. |
| rbt1985e3x08 | choice | While the underlying mechanics of the house were never clarified, the way it seemed to behave had all the stereotypical trappings of a haunted house. It is also referred to in such terms in the title. The central point of the story is that a house had been rebuilt after a fire and had apparently taken on a somewhat prudish streak. It suddenly had enough of the debauched behavior of its current occupants and started ejecting them by opening or shutting the doors, and by sending nightmarish visions to those that dared to spend the night. |
| tftc1989e2x16 | choice | The story follows the cynical television presenter Horton Rivers as he broadcasts live from an abandoned house that is haunted by the ghost of a notorious serial killer. |
| ftt1982e3x07 | major | Martin spent three nights in a ghost infested castle. |
| gdtcoc2022e06 | major | The house referred to in the title was haunted by the witch, also referred to, as well as her familiar, the rat-man Jenkins. |
| gdtcoc2022e08 | major | The house where Nancy and Edgar had been put up turned out to be haunted by the ghosts of a mother and the son she had cruelly murdered. |
| movie: The Shining (1980) | major | Numerous ghosts haunted the Overlook Hotel, perhaps because of bad things that had happened there and because it was built on an ancient Indian burial ground. |
| nightgallery1x03a | major | Elaine purchased a house that was thought to have been haunted by its previous residents. |
| nightgallery1x03b | major | Emma haunted her old house in pursuit of justice. |