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CONTENTS Preface IX 1 Welcome to the Funhouse: Gothic and the Architecture of Subversion 1 2 The Sentient House and the Ghostly Tradition: The Legacy of Poe and Hawthorne 15 3 June Cleaver in the House of Horrors: Shirley Jackson's The Haunting ofHill House 25 4 "Too bad we can't stay, baby!": The Horror at Amityville 47 5 Middle-Class Nightmares: Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings and Anne Rivers Siddons's The House Next Door 67 6 Unmanned by the American Dream: Stephen King's The Shining 91 7 Ghosts in the Machine: The Future of the Haunted House Formula 107 Notes 115 Works Cited 125 Index 137 ...

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