“The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain”
1859-08-00
novelette
By Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1859-08-00
novelette
By Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Synopsis
A man is fascinated by a supposedly haunted house and wants to go in to investigate.
History
First publication: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, August 1859
Review
A Late Gothic ghost story. The style is the antique style of writing popular in the early 1800s. But, for the time, this was well-written and has a lot of imagination. It may seem cliche today, but in its day was less so, but it wasn’t really a trail-blazer either. Often anthologized. It gets a bit tedious with the constant attempts to explain events and make them less threatening. Some of that is good. Too much just gets repetitive.
