So basic is it that the desecration of it, the corruption, as it were, by something alien takes on a peculiar and bone-deep horror and disgust." It is an extension of ourselves it tolls in answer to one of the most basic chords mankind will ever hear. Maybe it's because, to a woman, her house is so much more than that: it is kingdom, responsibility, comfort, total world to her. She told him, "The haunted house has always spoken specially and directly to me as the emblem of particular horror. Stephen King was so impressed by The House Next Door that when he wrote Danse Macabre, his personal tour of the horror genre, he sought out Siddons for an interview.
But the frame itself-the observations of an urbane and sophisticated couple who live next door and become close friends with the architect-is the most deeply involving story in the book. The novel uses a frame device to put three short stories under a single cover: as each of three families moves into the house in succession, we watch the bad things that happen to them and eventually force them to leave. The setting is a wealthy suburb in Atlanta where an ambitious young architect is building a dramatically contemporary house. Anne Rivers Siddons is a writer of literary fiction whose one foray into the horror genre is this remarkable 1978 novel, The House Next Door.
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