H.P. Lovecraft seldom left the house, lurking reclusively behind closed drapes to pen his tales of the monstrous Cthulhu and other horrors, writes Ron Wolfe in Style.
In fact, it might be more assuring to believe in ghosts than to imagine what else goes bump in the night — like the furnace. And not just bump: creak, clank, hiss, scratch and burble.
See Saturday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for Wolfe’s Halloween guide to eerie sounds and smells in the house, and what might be causing these spooky disruptions if not a poltergeist.