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  • I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.

    Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.107, Penguin