The Haunted And The Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The House and the Brain

A narrator takes up residence in an old country house long suspected to be haunted and is soon beset by baffling noises, apparitions, and seemingly impossible disturbances; as the mystery deepens, an investigation reveals secret passages, hidden devices, and a human manipulator who has engineered the phenomena, turning an apparently supernatural terror into a study of psychological influence, obsession, and the uneasy boundary between the uncanny and the explainable.

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