->'''Jim''': Hey honey, you know they have dead people in the backyard.\\
'''Sara''': Well, some people have swimming pools, others have private cemeteries. It can happen.
-->-- ''Film/TheHauntedMansion2003''

->''What is it in the house\\
That the darkness brings to life?\\
I sense their eyes upon me\\
As I grab a butcher knife\\
Whatever it is that waits for me\\
It hides beneath my bed\\
If I try to sleep tonight\\
By morning I'll be dead!\\
\\
'Cause I'm shakin' and I'm thinkin'\\
Of something evil lurking\\
And waiting for me in the house\\
Yes, I'm shakin' and I'm thinkin'\\
Of something evil lurking\\
And waiting for me in the dark''
-->-- '''Music/MetalChurch''', "The Dark"

-> The closer she gets to Thornton Hall, the more dilapidated it looks. The paint has all but crumbled from its walls, leaving them coated in sickly green; the great front pillars are enveloped in strangling tendrils of ivy and half the railings on the upper floor are overgrown with the dark haze of rust. Cypresses lurk dangerously close to the house, their branches nearly brushing the ragged roof. Wade has already reached the porch and stands unmoving there, shadowed by its ceiling.
-> "It seems built to inspire dread, I think," [[Franchise/NancyDrew Nancy]] murmurs absently.
-> "Indeed it was." The words slip out before Clara can stop them and she grits her teeth. Nancy glances at her but offers no reply.
-> ''(...)''
-> The crimson and turquoise of the threadbare carpet, the deep burgundy of the tattered, peeling, moldy wallpaper; the stairs, far across the entryway, leading up to a second floor engulfed in lamplight and shadow; the carved mahogany sets of doors flanking both sides of the room, to parlor on the right and dining room on the left. The rest of the house, a floorplan long blocked from memory, returns to Clara, and she reels.
-->-- ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/899961?view_full_work=true Haze]]'', a fanfic of ''VideoGame/NancyDrew: The Ghost of Thornton Hall''

->'''Ann:''' What did [Belasco] do to make this house so evil, Mr. Fischer?
->'''Fischer:''' Drug addiction, alcoholism, sadism, [[BestialityIsDepraved bestiality]], mutilation, murder, vampirism, [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]], cannibalism, not to mention a gamut of sexual goodies. Shall I go on?
-->-- ''Film/TheLegendOfHellHouse''

->I don't spook easy. I've spent nights in houses so filled with spirits, I had to perform exorcisms to take a dump. But that burned house up there? [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace The Black House?]] That place got me breaking out in goosebumps. Not spooked, not that, but... affected. In a bad way. [[EvilIsDeathlyCold It's a cold place]]. Funny thing with that house, it wasn't haunted before the locals [[BurnTheWitch made it so]]. They were so afraid of witchcraft, they never gave a single thought to what witchcraft does and doesn't do. After the house burnt down, they got far worse than magic to contend with. Anyone walked within a hundred yards could feel it, like nails on a blackboard. You look for evil in people, sooner or later you'll find it... [[ThenLetMeBeEvil even when it wasn't there in the first place]].
-->--'''John Wolf,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->''"This house is full of m-m-m-my mess!\\
Slamming...\\
This house is full of m-m-m-mistakes!\\
Slamming...\\
This house is full of m-m-m-madness!\\
Slamming...\\
This house is full of, full of, full of fight\\
Slam it...''
-->-- '''Music/KateBush,''' ''Get Out of my House''

->''"The family, the house. Makes no difference, does it? Cursed is cursed."''
-->-- '''Marta''', ''Literature/MexicanGothic''

->'''Alison:''' Fine! [[ISeeDeadPeople I see you]]! I see [[OfficerAndAGentleman Major-General Can't-Sing]], I see [[ContemporaryCaveman Captain Cave-Prick]], I see all of you! Okay?! You win! Mission accomplished, I admit your existence. Now ''what the hell do you want''?!\\
'''The Captain:''' We want you out of this house!\\
'''Lady Button:''' Yes, you do ''not'' belong here!\\
'''Alison:''' Well, that's tough, isn't it? Because thanks to my resident "mortgage advisor", ''we're stuck here!'' [...] So how about ''you'' leave?\\
'''The Captain:''' We can't leave.\\
'''Mary:''' You sort of just stays where you dies.\\
'''Thomas:''' And ''how'' you dies -- ''died''.\\
'''Pat:''' It's your classic haunted house.
-->-- ''Series/GhostsUK'', helpfully explaining the premise of both the show and this trope for us

->''"Ghosts galore. Headless horsemen, horseless headsmen, everything."''
-->--'''Charles Fengriffen''' on his ancestral home, ''Film/AndNowTheScreamingStarts''

->''"I have heard myself say that a house with a death in it can never again be bought or sold by the living. It can only be borrowed from the ghosts that have stayed behind. To go back and forth, letting out and gathering back in again. Worrying over the floors in confused circles. Tending to their deaths like patchy, withered gardens. They have stayed to look back for a glimpse of the very last moments of their lives. But the memories of their own deaths are faces on the wrong side of wet windows, smeared by rain. Impossible to properly see. There is nothing that chains them to the places where their bodies have fallen. They are free to go, but still they confine themselves, held in place by their looking. For those who have stayed, their prison is their never seeing. And left all alone, this is how they rot."''
-->--'''Lily Taylor''', ''Film/IAmThePrettyThingThatLivesInTheHouse''

->''"I should warn you folks, this house makes Amityville look like a spinning tea cup ride."''
-->--'''John Stoker''', ''Film/FleshForTheBeast''

->''"The whole building is a huge, superconductive antenna that was designed and built expressly for the purpose of pulling in and concentrating spiritual turbulence. Your girlfriend lives in the corner penthouse of Spook Central."''
-->--'''Egon Spengler''', ''Film/Ghostbusters1984''

->In the old days, spotting a haunted house was a piece of cake. It was always the creepy Victorian with the unmowed lawn and freakishly large weathervane. But that was then. In the modern Terrorverse, it doesn't matter if the house is falling apart or band-spanking new, sitting atop Graveyard Hill or shoehorned into an exclusive gated community. Any combination of wood, concrete, and paint can be haunted. And for that reason, every horror homeowner should know what to do in the event of a ghost or poltergeist infiltration.
->Remember: in horror movies, you don't gut the interior... [[RussianReversal the interior guts you]].
-->--''Literature/HowToSurviveAHorrorMovie''

->'''Lionel''': Is there a ghost here, Will?
->'''Will''': Not that I ''know'' of.
->'''Lionel''': ''Just'' my luck. Not even ''that'' to look forward to.
-->-- ''Film/NoKidding''
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