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[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|A spooky house.]] A staple of [[Horror]]. Where [[Haunted Castle]]s would appear in European tales, the '''Haunted House''' takes its place in American stories. It is commonly associated with bumps in the night, strange lights, and a shady history involving violence and terror.

 

For the [[Atari 2600]] game of the same name, go [[Haunted House (video game)|here]].

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* In ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', the Hinata house is haunted by a [[Cute Ghost Girl]] who appears sporadically throughout the series. She turns out to be really a very nice person. Also, she kinda sucks at haunting.

* Anna and Yoh's house in ''[[Shaman King]]''.

* ''[[Ghost Hunt]]'' had one, based on the Winchester Mystery House.

 

* [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]] spent at least one story dealing with a hostile haunted house, within which her magical powers were unavailable.

 

* The little cabin in ''The [[Evil Dead]]'' contains a haunted book, so, for all intents and purposes, is haunted.

* Gracey Manor in ''[[The Haunted Mansion (film)|The Haunted Mansion]]'' (2003) starring Eddie Murphy is a parody.

* ''[[The Changeling (film)|The Changeling]]'' from 1980 features George C. Scott moving into a house that is haunted by {{spoiler|the ghost of a crippled child who was drowned in the bathtub by his father.}}

* Played straight and {{spoiler|Inverted}} in ''[[The Others (film)|The Others]]'' starring [[Nicole Kidman]]. {{spoiler|The house is haunted, but by the main characters, who don't realize that they're dead.}}

 

* Shirley Jackson's classic novel, ''[[The Haunting of Hill House]]''. The first paragraph has been cited by [[Stephen King]] as one of the finest openings in English-language literature:

{{quote|No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.}}

* In ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' Skeeve received from the natives (Deveels), notoriously canny businessmen, a big house on Deva as a part of a deal. Why do they give him a cheap house? It has a back door that leads to the [[Überwald]]-like vampire dimension.

** {{spoiler|And the ''native vampires'' avoid it as haunted. Some even say they saw ''[[Humans Are Cthulhu|humans]]'' there -- just imagine it!}}

*** And the Marsten house from [['Salem's Lot]].

 

* ''[[30 Rock]]''. [[Lampshaded]] by a [[Genre Savvy]] Liz Lemon.

{{quote|'''Liz:''' Word of advice: If the will says you have to spend the night in a haunted house you better hope that everybody else there is [[Black Dude Dies First|black guys]] and [[Death by Sex|sluts]].}}

* The ''[[Castle]]'' episode "Demons" has the [[Body of the Week]] be a ghost-hunter killed in a reputedly haunted mansion. Castle, naturally, [[Agent Mulder|eagerly buys into the possibility of demonic possession]], while Beckett is [[Agent Scully|a lot more skeptical]]. Although the case of the week is ultimately discovered to have a human hand behind it, it's still [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|up in the air whether the house actually is haunted]].

* Aaargh Manor is reputed to be the most haunted house in Bottom World, in ''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom]]''. {{spoiler|The owner is faking it... but there is actually a ghost there as well.}}

 

* Diana Thornton's '''Lover's Last Chance'''. The song starts by describing innocent childhood Halloween fun, but then< "All of them hush past the house on the corner/A darkened old mansion than never did sell/Even the grownups just whisper about her/Nobody knows how she died... or won't tell."

 

* ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'' at [[Disney Theme Parks]]. There's 999 Happy Haunts, but there's room for a thousand...any volunteers?

* Halloween Horror Nights 2010 at Universal Studios Orlando features the haunted house Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate, which is the first literal haunted house the event has had and has a group of spirit seekers attempting to [[What an Idiot!|summon the angry ghosts of a mass murderer's victims and the murderer himself in the most haunted place in the world]].

 

* ''[[Luigi's Mansion|Luigis Mansion]]'' is basically the story of [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]]'s hapless younger brother getting a free house... which he then has to clear of ghosts. {{spoiler|Apparently, the whole thing was a ghostly creation, and it disappears when he's done. For some reason, the money in it ''wasn't'', so he buys a new one. Which is presumably ''not'' haunted.}}

* ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV]]: Oblivion'' has a quest which involves buying a haunted house and clearing it of ghosts.

* A haunted house appears in the Neighborhood in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Skateboarding]]''.

* ''[[Fatal Frame]]''

* ''The House'' point-and-click Flash game series focuses on exploring a house whose inhabitants committed suicide. Or did they?

* Unsurprisingly, used in ''The Lost Crown: A Ghosthunting Adventure''. Also a Haunted Museum, two Haunted Churches, a Haunted Boathouse, etc. Basically, if it's got a roof, some ghosts are sheltering under it.

* ''[[Shining Force III]]'' had another mansion with yet another Vandal living in it. He had transformed all the village folk into [[Our Zombies Are Different|Kyon-Shi]]. Dantares, the brave Knight, is teased by the young mage about being scared of ghosts at this point in the game.

 

* In ''[[Annyseed]]'', Uncle Tarkwin's mansion is known to be haunted. Perry Elliot, the ghost, frequently visits the library, and, (though he would like you to believe otherwise) Anny's bedroom.

* The Kesandru / Brie Meighsaton House in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.

* This is the backbone of ''Amber: Journeys Beyond.'' [[Rule of Three]] on the ghosts, one from roughly 1910-1920, one from 1942, and a third from the late fifties.

* In ''[[Roza]]'', they [http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/?date=2011-08-28 stumble on an entire haunted village].

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* The student republics in the new Forum/RPG, ''Grave Academy'', akin to Hogwart's Houses, all have elements of this, the students being monsters probably help.

 

* The trio of heroes from ''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters|Filmations Ghostbusters]]'' set up shop in what resembled a run-down haunted house—Ghost Command—that featured haunted appliances such as (most memorably) the wisecracking Ansabone. Similarly, the [[Big Bad]] Prime Evil had Hauntquarters, a cathedral-like building located in the Fifth Dimension.

* In a ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' Treehouse of Horror segment, the Simpsons move into a haunted house, which does its best to make them leave... but they refuse, because it's pretty much their dream house. The segment ends with the house destroying itself rather than live with the Simpsons.

{{quote|'''Lisa:''' You can't help but feel a little rejected.}}

** Subverted in another episode, where the family have to spend the night in a haunted house. Homer, foolishly, says it's perfectly safe since there's no such thing as ghosts. The spooky music rises and the door slams behind them, complete with a flash of lightning... Next morning, the sun is shining and it's beautiful out, and they've had a pleasant night's sleep and absolutely nothing's happened.

 

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