{"id":954,"date":"2010-07-14T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T05:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=954"},"modified":"2010-07-14T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T05:03:12","slug":"a-literal-house-of-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"A Literal House of Horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe isolated retreat that Edith Wharton<\/strong> designed for herself in The Berkshires is straight out of The Shining.<\/em><\/p>\n


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Wharton lived on this estate – named “The Mount” – with her husband (Teddy), a MADMAN, from 1902 to 1911. She wrote her first bestseller, The House of Mirth<\/em> here in 1905 but more importantly the home was the scene of the disintegration of her ill-fated marriage and of Teddy’s descent into mental illness. She fled to Paris and left the house to the ghostsIronically, Edith Wharton was always scared of ghosts. As a child she felt she was “haunted by formless horrors”. She said she felt haunted by \u00c2\u00a0“some dark undefinable menace \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I could feel it behind me, upon me; and if there was any delay in the opening of the door I was seized by a choking agony of terror.” Even as a grown woman she admitted she couldn’t sleep in a room with a book containing a ghost story and claimed to have actually burned books containing ghost stories that were downstairs in the library. With this I completely empathize.<\/p>\n

You would think she would have known better.<\/p>\n

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\nOne big mistake was her decision to construct a PET CEMETERY on<\/em> the property. Who does that?<\/p>\n

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Another mistake was allowing the house to fall into the hands of a SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (The Foxhollow School for Girls from 1942-1976).<\/p>\n

At some point the house became lousy with ghosts and fell into ruin. The Mount is currently undergoing a major restoration. I hope they remember the holy water and prayer book along with the Benjamin Moore Historic Colors collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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