Time being at home for responsibility and health. Some will take them worse and others better, and there can always be a book in them to accompany us. Indispensable in real life, we are now considering our houses, as we never would have imagined, the value of owning or living in them. And in literature they are also setting and character of many good stories Of all genres. These are 6 titles chosen where houses, mansions and homes are great too protagonists.
Black house - Stephen King and Peter Straub
Two horror greats like King and Straub published this novel after The talisman, the first they wrote together. I starred in Jack sawyer, and here he does it again in a story that takes him through two parallel worlds, that of the Territories, where he was to save his mother, and the real one. Now, and being former homicide detective, Jack knows buy a house in a Wisconsin town. He does not remember anything about his trip through the Territories, but he had to leave the Los Angeles police when an event inexplicably marked him.
Now, because of some murders in that town and when the local police chief asks for his help, Jack fears that the strange visions that has dragged him to that past of the Territories. Y to face evil that surrounds him will have to enter that Black House.
Desolate house - Charles Dickens
This Bleak House is the residence where the protagonist lives, Esther summerson, which was abandoned by her parents. Protected from John jarndyce, a good-hearted gentleman, this one has long been in lawsuits because of a The heritage. Esther lives together with Ada and Richard, John's cousins, orphans and poor by inheritance, whom he tries to help too. Esther, in the first person, and the storyteller they are counting his fighting story for finding their identity and succeeding in society.
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
The mystery of Casa Aranda - Jerónimo Tristante
El first title where Jerónimo Tristante introduced Victor Ros, his inspector of the Madrid of the XIX century. Ros is a young policeman who hides a dark past as a thief and an undercover agent. He is now in command of a new brigade to fight crime and its first case takes him to the Aranda house. There, three women, over time, have tried murder her husband after reading a paragraph from Dante's Divine Comedy. But also the murders of several prostitutes from the underworld of the city.
The crooked house - Christie Agatha
Agatha Christie was a master at setting her mysteries and crimes in houses or mansions. In this story that mansion has a curious leaning architecture. It is the house where three generations of the Greek billionaire's family live Aristide leonides. So through its corridors and rooms all the characters cross, from the young and beautiful Brenda, second wife of the now very old patriarch, and Sophia, his granddaughter, whose future father-in-law is a police commissioner. But then Aristide is poisoned and all members of his family are suspects.
There is a recent film version This title starred Glenn Close, Terence Stamp or Gillian Anderson.
The fall of the Usher House - Edgar Allan Poe
One of the greatest horror stories with a house as the protagonist. The Usher brothers' mansion ends with Roderick and Madeline sinking with them before the astonished and terrified gaze of his friend and narrator of this story that is always worth discovering or rereading.
Curious and very interesting entry for fans of the genre.
As a contribution, 'The house of leaves' by Danielewski also amazed me.
Greetings,
Stephen King would have cited the curse of Hill House, Shirley Jackson ... 😉