Nothing speaks to that dark, forbidding place in the shadowy recesses of the mind like a haunted house. Countless books and movies draw inspiration from them, playing on the daunting tales we once told around the campfire. As children, we feared that rambling, vacant house with the overgrown shrubs and the peeling paint and the broken shudders, but what if they were real? What if past inhabitants really stalked thier old "haunts," forever at unrest as they seek to keep new occupants out, or maybe to welcome them in? Perhaps something unspeakable happened there long ago? Maybe someone lived there for so many years that they couldn't bring themselves to leave? On the following pages you'll find many spine-chilling accounts of haunted houses.