haunted house

haunted house

1. A house that is said to be visited by and/or home to ghosts or spirits. We're going to have a séance at the haunted house down the street, to see if we can talk to the spirits.
2. A house decorated to be spooky that serves as an attraction, usually around Halloween. I think the kids are too young to go to a haunted house, honey—I don't want them to have nightmares. Every year at Halloween, my family turns the garage into a haunted house by playing spooky music and hanging cobwebs everywhere.
See also: haunt, house
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • tiny house
  • move house
  • open house, keep
  • keep open house
  • house and home
  • eat someone out of house and home, to
  • ask up
  • out of square
  • spend the night
  • spend the night with somebody/together
References in classic literature
She said she would not go far, and would call at the haunted house once a month for her money.
Wolfert had not a doubt that this was the haunted house of Father Red-cap, and called to mind the story of Peechy Prauw.
A NEW haunted house attraction at Legoland has special features created in a collaboration involving a Shropshire firm.
IHalf an hour after breakfast - no insects on the menu - this feeling is exactly what I experienced on Legoland's new ride, the Haunted House Monster Party.
The Haunted House Monster Party at Legoland is open once again
The Haunted House Monster Party Legoland is open once again
Portland, OR, May 01, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Leonard Pickel built his first haunted house in 1976, formed his company Hauntrepreneurs[R] in 1987 and has been helping people start up and be successful in the Halloween attraction business ever since.
The Haunted House Monster Party at the park inWindsoropened last week after taking two years to be built.
Park-goers were invited by Lord Vampyre and his spooky pals to try out the new attraction and visitors faced long queues as they waited to see what was happening inside the haunted house.
The Windsor theme park's Haunted House Monster Party ride saw guests met by Lego gargoyles and talking statues, before a vampire turns a banquet hall upside down.
The Haunted House Monster Party is a brand new experience with magic, jokes and of course ghoulish, party vibes.
Halloween may be just around the corner, but there's still time to catch a good scare at a suburban haunted house.
Thinking the man was part of the characters in the haunted house, Greenfield entertained the suspect.
Rice took him to 7101 Miramar Blvd., and the legendary home seemed to be the right fit.<br />The home was the former Haunted House restaurant.
Summary: Nithya Menon plays Tara, an Indian English writer who decides to stay in a haunted house