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Compare [[Haunted Headquarters]], which is any haunted primary setting, and [[Old Dark House]], which may or may not have a supernatural element. [[Big Boo's Haunt]] is this trope in video games. Will often end up invoking [[Never Recycle a Building]], for good reason.
If it's merely the setting for a [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]] involving [[Ten Little Murder Victims]], see [[Old Dark House]].
For the [[Atari 2600]] game of the same name, go [[Haunted House (video game)|here]].
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== Anime/Manga ==
* 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.
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* ''[[Beetlejuice]]'' is a haunted house comedy from the perspective of the ghosts.
* ''Darkness'' (2002), starring [[Anna Paquin]], had a family moving into a haunted house as {{spoiler|part of an [[Evil Plan]] to complete a demonic ritual}}.
* ''[[Poltergeist]]'' features a suburban California home that is normal at first, but is invaded by ghosts that torment the owners in various ways. Because it was built on top of a cemetery.
* Somewhat inverted in ''[[13 Ghosts]]'' in which an occultist builds an infernal engine in the form of a glass house, then deliberately moves ghosts into it as a power source.
* [[Manos: The Hands of Fate|I tAke caRe oF tHe PlacE wHiLe tHe MaSteR iS aWaY.]]
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* ''[[The Haunting]]''
* Whether the ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]'' actually is haunted is moot. What's important is that people ''think'' it is.
* ''[[The House by the Cemetery]]''. And being haunted isn't the worst part, there's an [[The Undead|Undead]] [[Mad Scientist]] living in [[Creepy Basement|the cellar]].
* ''[[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.}}
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* 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.}}
* 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 [[Uberwald]]-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!}}
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* ''[[House of Leaves]]'': A postmodern horror story about a family that slowly discovers that their {{color|blue|house}} is larger on the inside than on the outside. [[Bizarrchitecture|Much, much larger.]] Also, <s>{{color|red|possibly there's a monster.}}</s>
* ''[[Nick Arcade]]'': The Creepyville board has a haunted house crawling with ghosts that scare Mikey (the player).
* In [[Aaron Allston]]'s ''[[Galatea in 2-D]]'', Donna thinks she's going mad because she can barely sleep, the house feels like it's haunted by stuff out of [[Edgar Allan Poe]].
** [[Art Initiates Life|It is.]]
* Edbrook Manor from ''[[Haunted (1995 film)|Haunted 1988]]'' is haunted by ghosts.
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' had a couple of these in its time, such as in "Fear Itself" and "Where the Wild Things Are".
** Cordelia's apartment in ''[[Angel]]'' was also haunted. Except the ghost was friendly and generally treated like an invisible room mate (that Cordy called '[[Incredibly Lame Pun|The Phantom Dennis']]).
*** That's because she found out his name while doing research for the place. Mainly because it was originally haunted by Dennis' mother who was far less nice, and attempted to kill Cordelia or convince her to commit suicide, believing her to be Dennis' fiance, who she hated in life.
*** And the reason behind the said haunting was that Dennis's mother walled him in a closet to keep him from moving out to live with the said fiance, and suffered a heart attack immediately afterwards.
* In the ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' episode "The Eternity Trap", Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde accompany Professor Rivers to investigate Ashen Hill Manor, supposedly one of the most haunted houses in Britain. As Clyde puts it, it's "[[Harry Potter|Hogwarts]], [[Tim Burton]]-style".
* The [[Stephen King]]-scripted miniseries ''[[Rose Red]]''.
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* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines|Vampire:]] [[Word Salad Title|The Masquerade:]] [[Colon Cancer|Bloodlines]]''' Oceanside Hotel level features a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|hotel that is haunted]] by the ghost of a woman who'd been murdered by her husband. Most fans consider it the most terrifying part of the game.
* Spookyraven Manor in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', with such bizzare undead as the "Pooltergeist" (made out of Snooker balls) and "Undead Elbow Macaroni".
* While the main threat in the first two ''[[Clock Tower (series)|Clock Tower games]]'' is [[Implacable Man|Scissorman]], the Barrow's mansion and {{spoiler|Barrow's Castle}} are both haunted, and have various other threats within them.
* ''The Haunted Mansion'' for the Gamecube. Playing it as a kid and being used to Mario Kart and other kiddy games did NOT help whenever rotting arms burst out of boarded doors and "The Ring" girl in a red dress flipped her hair up with a screech.
* 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."
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* ''[[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.
* ''[[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.
== Webcomics ==
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* ''Stupidity in Magic'' has this. ''Twice'', actually. Both times, the main cast is only called in to see why the house is haunted - they never get the house itself (they have their own place already, anyways). The first time, {{spoiler|the ghosts were stuck in the house because of a curse, and most of them were happy to leave once the problem was fixed.}} The second time, the ghosts were haunting a house being rented out by a college - the rent was ''very'' reasonable, due to the haunting, and the college students only called for help because the ghosts {{spoiler|had started possessing the occupants and were getting a bit violent; once things were fixed so that they wouldn't be in danger of getting hurt any more and they realized ''why'' the rent was so low, they were quite willing to let the ghosts stay - they preferred slightly-haunted accomodations that were within walking distance of the college to anything else they could've afforded.}}
* ''[[Goblin Hollow]]'': well, Goblin Hollow.
* Olive Specter's home in [[The Sims]] 2. Actually, if you have a Sim die on your lot, their ghost will show up and cause trouble.
* 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].
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3344 Crimney trick-or-treats at one]. It's good that Fuschia already has a crush on him.
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