Hey folks, Aaron here.

Welcome to Deeper LORE, a bonus episode designed to be a topical guide to the most recent episode of

lore.

As I've explained before, Deeper LORE is here to help you find similar episodes to the most recent one.

With so many episodes in our catalog now, it's pretty difficult to track specific ones down.

So this is meant to be a big neon sign pointing you in the direction of other similar

episodes. No it's not a gimmick to grab more downloads or an effort to sell ads.

It's my attempt to be helpful for all of those

LORE super-fans out there or brand new listeners who want to learn more about the

same topic we covered on this week's brand new lore episode, you know, to go a bit deeper, thus deeper lore.

This week with episode 259, Where the Heart is, we go about as classic as we can get with another exploration of creepy haunted house folklore.

This is probably one of the oldest corners of folklore and it's undeniably one of the most popular.

Honestly, it's pretty easy to see why. That safe guarded

place that we all call home suddenly invaded by invisible forces that bring

chaos and danger into our lives. No wonder haunted houses are a standard feature of

Halloween, horror movies, and novels like Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of

Hill House or Richard Matheson's Hell House, which if you love amazing frightening fiction,

those are two absolute classic novels to read this fall.

You will thank me later.

Basically, these stories make sense.

They work, and they always seem to be entertaining.

Another fun side note, I have distinct memories from my childhood of going down into our dark dank

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