Some houses are haunted by the dead. Others hide something far stranger.

In tonight’s Midnight Murmurs, we enter The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Drawn to a London house infamous for terrifying those who dare spend the night inside, a skeptical investigator decides to confront its mysteries himself. But as darkness settles over the house, strange sounds, apparitions, unseen forces, and increasingly disturbing phenomena begin to challenge everything he believes about the supernatural.

And behind the haunting may lie something much more sinister than a restless spirit.

Published in 1859, The Haunted and the Haunters is a classic of Victorian supernatural fiction that blends the traditional haunted-house story with psychological terror and oc ...