Haunted house

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The Haunted Mansion : a haunted house as a theme park attraction
The Winchester House in San Jose, California, USA

A haunted house is a building (or a single room as a haunted room) in which it is supposed to be haunted . The term haunted castle has become established as a variant for castles . The haunted house has found its way into literature, film and video games as a motif.

Examples of supposed haunted houses

Haunted house Fühlingen in Cologne

Examples of haunted houses:

The haunted house as a literary motif

It is a motif from fantastic literature that was particularly popular in the 19th century and was also used again and again later - in films , for example . The preference of many authors for this motif is related on the one hand to its dramatically rich possibilities for variation, on the other hand to the immanent goal of the fantastic, which is quite easy to implement here: the uncertainty of the recipient and the associated feeling of uncanny that arises when reality and Everyday perception is called into question. If the threat emanates from the object that most clearly embodies the security of people, the house or room , the effect is all the more unsettling, even more dramatic.

Château de Noisy , Belgium

At the beginning of a typical haunted house story, the protagonists often move into a new house or rent a room - in the film, the viewer usually sees it eerily and threateningly through appropriate camera work and music - only to find out after a while that strange things of different nature are happening . If these can apparently still be explained rationally at the beginning, this hope usually disappears in the course of the action. In the end, the phenomena are often attributed to crimes in the house, which can lead to ending the haunted house ; on the other hand, it is also possible that the residents are forced to leave the house. Authors such as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , Ambrose Bierce , HP Lovecraft and Stephen King ( Shining ) each processed the motif in a specific way.

The haunted house as a film motif (examples)

The haunted house as a theme in video games (examples)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Haunted houses in Germany , accessed on October 31, 2014
  2. ↑ Haunted house and haunted room . In: Rein A. Zondergeld : Lexicon of fantastic literature. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1983, ISBN 3-518-37380-3 , p. 295
  3. ↑ Haunted house and haunted room . In: Rein A. Zondergeld: Lexicon of fantastic literature. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1983, ISBN 3-518-37380-3 , p. 295