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Images

 

Fig. 1 (background image) “The Haunted House” http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/246781

 

Fig. 2. Defining Fear, Nosferatu http://prettycleverfilms.com/movie-lists/pretty-clever-films-top-10-silent-horror-movies/

 

Fig. 3 - Dark Corridorby blackychoice, DeviantArt  http://blackychoice.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Corridor-256362457

 

Fig. 4 – The First Vampires, “Assyrian lime stone tablet mentioning vampire from 1325 B.C.” http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1018329/pg1

 

Fig. 4 - Sony's video game Bloodborne, based on Lovecraft's fictional towns http://thumbthrone.com/news/bloodborne-trailer-promises-nightmare-fueling-fun/

 

Fig. 6 – Resident Evil 7, a game played through virtual reality headset. Has won awards for its sheer realism.   http://playmoments.de/all-review-list/resident-evil-7-demo-beginning-hour-bei-uns-in-der-vorschau/

 

Fig. 7 Fearful Architecture Image. https://www.fastcodesign.com/3037796/why-are-victorian-houses-so-creepy

 

Fig. 8  Abandoned Trenton Psychiatric Hospital Photo Source: David Scaglione https://damnstraightneednotapply.wordpress.com/tag/abandoned-mental-hospital/

 

Fig. 9 - Erwood House, Wales  http://lobsterandswan.com/rustic-interior-erwood-house/

 

Fig. 10 – Church graveyard http://favim.com/image/9267/

 

Fig. 11 – WWII battlefield. The ruins of Guillemont Station. Photograph from the History of the 20th (Light) Division.  http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/guillemont.html

 

Fig. 12 – Hearsay is powerful. http://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2014/08/29/hearsay-in-investigations-its-inadmissable-right-wrong/

 

Fig. 13 – The Queen Anne Style https://www.bobvila.com/slideshow/the-queen-anne-porch-5614#.WLYeRn9zJxg

 

Fig. 14 – Disney’s phantomatic ‘fake’ house, depicting the house from Insidious (film) https://dipaulaondisney.com/2015/09/29/review-halloween-horror-nights-25-brings-classic-hhn-with-bigger-scares/

 

Fig. 15 – Disney World’s phantomatic scenery https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/04/beast-castle-behind-the-scenes-with-walt-disney-imagineers/

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Fig. 16 - Amityville house http://www.amityvillefaq.com/truthboard/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1646

 

Fig. 17 – newspaper article from 1974. The New York Times. Thursday, November 14th 1974 http://www.amityvillefiles.com/murders/

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Fig. 18 - Lutz family. https://moviepilot.com/posts/3723044

 

Fig. 19 – Cover of Jay Anson’s best selling novel.

 

Fig. 21 - West Elevation. http://www.amityvillefaq.com/truthboard/viewtopic.php?t=3300

 

Fig. 22 - 1924 William A. Radford - Dutch Colonial Revival - Gambrel roof, The American Architect and Building News

 

Fig. 23 – Front cover https://nastynels.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/colin-wilson-poltergeist/

 

Fig. 24 – photograph of Jean Pritchard with the book she most certainly benefited financially from http://www.30eastdrive.com/pontefract-items

 

Fig. 25 – Film Poster http://www.impawards.com/intl/uk/2012/when_the_lights_went_out_xlg.html

 

Fig. 26 – screen cap of film https://yts.gs/movies/when-the-lights-went-out-2012

 

Fig. 27 – Garden city OS, 1938 In the Manor and Woodthorpe Estates of South Yorkshire. http://sytimescapes.org.uk/zones/sheffield/S20

 

Fig. 28 – Interior, ground floor stairway. http://www.metimeforthemind.com/the-black-monk-of-pontefract-and-the-very-real-haunting-of-30-east-drive.html

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Fig. 29 Pontefract house https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1955211/what-black-monk-of-pontefract-haunting/

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Fig. 30 Sathorn Unique http://www.panoramio.com/photo/16446775

 

Fig. 31 full-tower photo http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/06/towers-of-terror-haunted-skyscrapers-of-the-world/

 

Fig. 32 http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/11/sathorn-unique-bangkoks-ghost-tower.html

 

Fig. 33 http://www.travelfreak.net/sathorn-unique-bangkok/

 

Fig. 34 http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/11/sathorn-unique-bangkoks-ghost-tower.html

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