Ben Highmore is the author of The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House. At the Guardian he tagged ten top books about houses, including:The House of Stairs by Barbara VineRead about the other books on the list.
Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine is brilliant at capturing the uncanniness of some houses. Freud wrote a famous essay on the uncanny and reminded us that the German word for the uncanny is literally translated as un-homely. For him what is unnerving about the uncanny is that this is strangeness found in familiar places. If you want a sense of that experience then read The House of Stairs.
--Marshal Zeringue
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