The Uninhabited House (Annotated)

The Uninhabited House is a finely constructed Victorian ghost story in which the supernatural is inseparable from questions of property, law, money, and social reputation. Riddell frames the haunted house not as a gothic ruin but as a modern commercial problem: a desirable residence rendered valueless by fear. Her prose is lucid, ironic, and observant, joining sensation fiction, domestic realism, ...