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* ''[[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.}}
* [[The Grudge]] and [[
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{{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.}}
* Matheson's [[Hell House]] rivals Shirley Jackson's Hill House.
* 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 [[
** {{spoiler|And the ''native vampires'' avoid it as haunted. Some even say they saw ''[[Humans Are Cthulhu|humans]]'' there -- just imagine it!}}
* The Shrieking Shack in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series. Arguably, Sirius Black's house as well.
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* In the second ''[[No More Heroes]]'' game, Travis fights Matt Helms, a ghost kid who haunts his creepy, abandoned house, complete with a graveyard on the front lawn.
* The entirety of ''[[Sweet Home (video game)|Sweet Home]]'' takes place in one of these, referred to as a "House of Residing Evil."
* Draynor Manor in ''[[
* The entire setting of the first ''[[Nightmare House]]'' fan game.
* ''[[Shining the Holy Ark]]'' has a massive sprawling mansion in the middle of a graveyard where the powerful being Galm lives. The house has seen much better days. Seeing how Galm was only released from [[Sealed Badass in a Can|imprisonment]] you do have to wonder who built such a massive house (which is bigger than the King's castle) and why it was abandoned.
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