SOME dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural, and full of contradictions ; Yet others of our most romantic schemes Are something more than fictions. It might be only on enchanted ground ; It might be merely by a thought's expansion ; But in the spirit, or the flesh, I found An old deserted Mansion. ... from Thomas Hood 'The Haunted House' Hood's magazine and comic miscellany v.1, 1844 Source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112108240190&seq=13
O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted! from Thomas Hood 'The Haunted House' Hood's magazine and comic miscellany v.1, 1844 Source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112108240190&seq=23
Etching entitled 'The Haunted House' based on a painting by Thomas Creswick (1811 - 1869) Nocturnal view of a gothic style house on a pond, in the shadows of a group of tall trees, a slim crescent moon, some broken columns in the garden. Source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112108240190&seq=12&view=1up
Romantic Landscapes (28.2/n)
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When #ThomasHood publishes _The Hounted House_ in 1844, romanticism is long past. The paraphernalia evoking supernatural spirits or ghosts in ruined houses, cobwebs, bats, rats & the BLOODY HAND are tired markers for a crime scene.
