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3 | A short story published by Creator/JosephSheridanLeFanu in 1853. |
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5 | It tells of two cousins (the narrator, and Tom Ludlow) who experience mysterious happenings at the titular house in Aungier Street, in UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}, UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}, sometime around the 1820s or 1830s. |
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8 | !!Among the mysterious tropes in Aungier Street are: |
9 | * GhostlyGoals: Horrocks appears to desire to drive anyone who tries to live in the house on Aungier Street to suicide, preferably by hanging. |
10 | * HangingJudge: Old Judge Horrocks, [[spoiler:whose ghost haunts the house in Aungier Street]], to the point where he seems to ''enjoy'' hanging people. |
11 | * HauntedHouse: The house in Aungier Street, where Uncle Ludlow lets the narrator and Tom take quarters. |
12 | * HauntedHouseHistorian: Three characters fulfill this role in the tale: |
13 | ** Uncle Ludlow's (unnamed) house agent knows some of the mundane history of the house; specifically that it dates from at least the 1680s (and possibly older), was sold as "forfeited property" (presumably for treason) in 1702, and was re-fronted around 1760. |
14 | ** An old "local woman" (of almost around 80 years of age, hence born around 1750) remembers that old Judge Horrocks, a HangingJudge, lived there in her youth and hanged himself in the main stair-well. (This must have happened in the 1750s or 1760s, and Horrocks himself must have been born around 1690-1700) |
15 | ** Martha, the 52-year-old daughter of the old local woman, who comes in to the house as a part-time servant, knows some of the history of the haunting of the house. |
16 | * MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: It is a strong possiblity that Judge Horrocks committed suicide precisely to become a malevolent ghost, given the combination of his evil and insanity. |
17 | * OffingTheOffspring: Judge Horrocks' first post-mortem victim was probably ''his own young daughter!'' |
18 | * RecurringDreams: Both the narrator and Tom keep having dreams haunted by the evil of [[spoiler:Judge Horrocks]]. |
19 | * SoleSurvivor: While Tom [[spoiler:isn't killed in the experiences at Aungier Street]], by the time the narrator tells his tale, [[spoiler:his cousin Tom has died of a disease contracted during missionary work]]. Given that this all happened decades ago, Uncle Ludlow has by now probably also died. |
20 | * SpookyPainting: The ghost of the HangingJudge manifests as a creepy painting, among other things. |
21 | * TheTeamBenefactor: Uncle Ludlow, Tom's father, is a wealthy man who dwells in the country, and owns a number of old houses in Aungier Street, one of which is the unoccupied house in which Uncle Ludlow let the narrator and Tom stay. |
22 | * WouldHurtAChild: Horrocks shows no mercy to children, and even seems to especially-delight in frightening them to death. |
23 | * YouDirtyRat: The "monstrous gray rat" (about the size of a very large human foot) which seems to be an avatar or herald of [[spoiler:the ghostly Judge Horrocks]]. |
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