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Horror/Scary: September 03, 2025 Issue [#13317]




 This week: Old Houses
  Edited by: Asterix Author IconMail Icon
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place" ~ Emily Dickinson


Letter from the editor

Old Houses


The world is sprinkled with many well-known haunted houses. In Europe, those are sometimes entire castles. Abandoned hospitals and mental asylums are obvious front runners too. Some of those haunted houses are being run as bed and breakfast places. Those will offer accommodations and sometimes a tour.

The problem with those places that are known to be haunted is that anyone with enough imagination will be able to hear the chains rattling in the basement, or the moans permeating the walls. It's baked into the experience by having all of the information of what could possibly be scary. That's why people will report to have those exact experiences.

As writers, we can use one of those famous haunted places and use that to build a story on.

It's also a good idea to take a random house (that exists or doesn't) and make up a story about it being haunted. The best way to come up with scary things to see and sounds to hear is to spend a night or several alone in a secluded house in the country side.

The nights are darker because of the lack of light pollution.

There will be unexplainable sounds.

There will be unexplainable smells.

And maybe, there's even a power outage to make things more interesting.

Private residences, not yet on the list of bonafide haunted houses, are waiting for your stories.

Why are old houses more spooky than new ones?


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Ask & Answer

Replies to my last Horror/Scary newsletter "Illness" Open in new Window.

BIG BAD WOLF is Surprised Author Icon wrote: Huntington's Disease scares me the most. My grandfather had it, meaning that there's a chance I got it, especially if it turns out that my father has it.

As for what happened, one day, he went for a walk in the woods. In those woods is an active train track. He was identified by his suspenders. Thankfully, my grandmother wasn't the one to identify him.

We like to say that he went into the woods to locate his boys, who liked to play in those woods as kids.

Hades Author Icon wrote: To answer the question in bold, what illness scares me the most is cancer. I watched it kill several family members in horrible slow motion. Insidious and hiding, asymptomatic usually until it's too late to escape. It never really goes away. The person just borrows time to say goodbye. Thats if they're lucky. Then at the same time cancer steals that person bit by bit, hour by hour until the doctors decide hospice and the oblivion of painkillers is the only way. It scares the hell outa me.

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