Happy Halloween! What better way to celebrate spooky season than to talk about some horror? Women have been telling horror stories from the origin of the genre, and haunted house stories are an especially good way to explore and examine the everyday horrors of home life. Grab the Halloween candy you were planning to hand out tonight and sit back with me for a chat about some fantastic haunted house stories you’ll be dying to read.

Recommended Reading:

The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike

The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson

Why Horror Seduces by Mathias Clasen