Why are country houses so often the perfect settings for horror novels?

That's just one of the questions posed by James Fisher to Louise Davidson, author of The Fortunes of Olivia Richmond, on the latest episode of the Country Life Podcast.

Growing up in Northern Ireland with an aunt who was — and had been since childhood — possessed of supernatural gifts made the idea of thinking, talking and writing about ghosts second nature to Louise. But there's far more to our obsession with haunted houses than just the ghost stories which we tell, as she explains to James.

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Episode credits

Host: James Fisher
Guest: Louise Davidson
Editor and Producer: Toby Keel
Music: JuliusH via Pixabay

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Louise Davidson: Haunted houses, psychic aunts, Gothic novels and writing at night with the lights off