Murder mysteries were set in empty Victorians—and as more and more were torn down in real life to make room for modernity, they took root in the imagination instead. https://daily.jstor.org/how-victorian-mansions-became-the-default-haunted-house/
Quick: Picture a haunted house. It’s probably a Victorian mansion, right? Here’s how these structures became signifiers of horror, haunting, and death.
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