Context is key. For example, your own home, even if old and a bit run down, often is comforting and familiar. But if one was to approach a house that looked like it hadn’t had a human inhabitant for ...

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Our columnist reviews “Strange Houses” and other new horror fiction. By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, literary critic and professor, and the author of “The Devil Takes You Home.

A fireplace clad in a thousand abalone shells sits in a low-ceilinged red brick building in Santa Cruz. Above the mantle is an empty triangle, where an occult relief depicting the sun and moon used to ...

HERE’S TED. IN THE WOODS OF ELIOT, MAINE, STANDS QUITE THE UNUSUAL HOUSE. MANY PEOPLE REFER THIS AS THE HOBBIT HOUSE OF MAINE. THE HOBBIT HOUSE HAS BEEN WELL KNOWN IN THIS TOWN SINCE THE 1970S, WHEN ...

From the moment you step into someone's house, the details of how they've arranged their space can tell you how taken care of that space is. While some signs of neglect are more obvious than others, ...