{"id":395,"date":"2014-07-23T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsudlr.wordpress.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2014-07-23T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T18:00:30","slug":"beware-the-house-that-feels-the-impact-of-sentient-house-hauntings-on-literary-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/dlr\/2014\/07\/23\/beware-the-house-that-feels-the-impact-of-sentient-house-hauntings-on-literary-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the House that Feels: The Impact of Sentient House Hauntings on Literary Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This essay examines Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s &#8220;The Fall of the House of Usher,&#8221; Shirley Jackson&#8217;s <em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>, and Mark Z. Danielewski&#8217;s <em>House of Leaves<\/em>, texts featuring sentient house hauntings. 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