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Jon Day: Haunted Houses, 6 November 2025

Hearth of Darkness 
by Matt Blake.
Elliott & Thompson, 272 pp., £16.99, October, 978 1 78396 915 9
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How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession 
by Caitlin BlackwellBaines.
Profile, 303 pp., £22, October, 978 1 80522 148 7
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... school of ghostbusting.Real-life violence isn’t essential to the creation of haunted houses, Caitlin BlackwellBaines argues in How to Build a Haunted House, but it does make ghostly visitations more likely (or perhaps just easier to sell to others). Ghost hunters and parapsychic investigators sometimes invoke the ...

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