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This house I grew up in was built in the 1800s, and the back yard was like a cemetery. Naturally, I grew up in an environment where ghosts and supernatural things were very unnerving to me, because my brothers and I dealt with it on a daily basis.

A house is kind of scary.

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

I like to believe there are ghosts all over the place!

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.

We all live in some kind of home, so the idea that our home could be invested with a supernatural entity is kind of frightening, I think.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.