The purpose of this page is to capture the essence of what a haunted home story is and isolate both the aspects of that template I like and the aspects I don’t like.
From there, I can distill the qualities I like and flesh them out with a fresh template.
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This is a child page of Haunted home.
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This document is mainly concerned about a sub-genre of haunted house story: the haunted home story. In the haunted home sub-genre, residents of a home are being haunted. Such a storyline usually extends over a significant period of time.
That is in contrast with the haunted house visitor stories, where the protagonists are visiting a haunted house, usually to spend a single night. In such cases, if the house is not abandoned but instead has human hosts, then those hosts are usually either in league with the spirits or at least immune to them.
All of these examples are movies. I’m not a big fan of horror movies, and I’m even less a fan of horror literature (other than Lovecraft.)
Primarily, a haunted home is about being scary.
In particular, and similar to the home intrusion sub-genre, it's about being vulnerable in a normally safe place, or what is normally the safe place.
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