Big house, bad weather, something in the east wing.
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I went on a tour of a large old house. I was supposed to admire the plasterwork. Instead I spent two hours trying to work out which door the family doesn't open, and I found it, and the guide was not pleased.
You do not have an east wing. You have a hallway cupboard. Here is how to furnish a small home so that it reads, at night, with the lamp low, like a house that is keeping something from you.
The gothic novel has one rule: the house is bigger than the people in it, and it knows. Here are five, ranging from 1847 to this decade, for a week of bad weather.
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