Halloween would not be complete without a frightening haunted house, mansion, estate, or castle! The ambiance is all that really matters: if it’s spooky enough to give you a chill and inspire scary ghost stories, it’s a success! Here are some of our favorite fictional haunted houses, what makes them great, and actual places you can visit year-round.
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
–Shirley Jackson, “The Haunting of Hill House”
Some of our favorite haunted houses are merely fictitious and we can snuggle up and read about them under the covers. Other houses around...
