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