The Castle of Otranto And The Failure Of Mortgage-Backed Securities
For the Term of his Natural Life (He’ll Be Renting)
The Old English Baron Is In Default
The Mysteries of Udolpho’s Debt Restructuring Plan
The Lonesome Place Is All We Can Afford
The Misfortunes of Virtue Or; Too Big To Fail
The Rats In The Walls: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
The Vanishing Apparition Of The Federal Funds Rate
Bleak House’s Subprime Borrowers
The Castle Spectre Is In Foreclosure
Jamaica Inn’s Short-Term Renters
The Lair of the White Worm Is $1800/mo., $1750/mo if you’re willing to share a bathroom
Other Voices, Other Rooms, All Of Which You’ll Have To Share With At Least Two Other Subletters
The Quaker City Has An Ever-Tightening Housing Market
The Romance of the Forest, Due To A Lack Of Affordable Housing In The City Proper
Melmoth the Wanderer Blames Stagnant Wages And Runaway Rent Increases
The Fall of the House of Usher Into Arrears
The Repossessing of the House on Black Lake
The Horrors of Trying to get a Second Mortgage on Oakendale Abbey
Now That Bertha is Gone We Are Subletting the Attic To Make Ends Meet.
The madwoman in the attic had to be evicted
Ghosts in the walls, boarders in the garden unit
I do not want to share a bathroom with the white worm, thanks.
We Have Always Lived In The Castle (And Probably Always Will Now That The Bottom’s Fallen Out Of The Market)
If You Have Overnight Houseghosts, You Pay
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall Is Late With The Rent
Why, those heights haven’t wuthered in years!
Or, Wuthering Heights Will Wuther Eternally Because The Expenses Of Fixing Them Properly Or Moving Out Are Both Insurmountable.
The secret family hidden in the attic owe back rent
ETA: Flowers in the attic; eviction notice on the front door.
Your ETA has just killed me dead
Why thank you!
Later I realised that foreclosure notice would even be better but decided that one ETA was enough.
The Italian, or Venice Deserted Because of Airbnb
The Lair of the White Worm Is $1800/mo., $1750/mo if you’re willing to share a bathroom
That is COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE. Unless off-site parking is included in the rent, in which case, I’ll take it. Worms and all.
We can totally AirBnB this giant helmet that fell into the courtyard.
The Haunted Condo: Not much room so our ghost lives in the storage ottoman
Melmoth the Wanderer: Couch Surfing after Foreclosure
Howards End of the Lease Term (not a Gothic novel, I know)
It is a little though!
The Foreclosing of Hill House
The Yellow Wallpaper isn’t so Bad it’s Just a Fixer Upper
(Omg I can’t stop this is awesome I love you Mallory)
I am mentally going through my bookshelves.
The Two Towers, where we rented an eleventh-floor walk-up.
The Jolly Corner in our dining room where some dude sleeps in a wooden box with a mattress on the bottom, for only $750/month rent!
The House on the Strand has been neither insured nor insurable since Clement Attlee was Prime Minister. We still live there anyway.
Also, for plays:
An Inspector Calls, to tell the Birlings no system in their house is up to code.
The Great God Pan will be just the thing to put under this leak!
John Bellairs Edition:
The House with the Clock in its Walls and an Illegal “Garden-Level” Apartment in its Basement
The Dark Secret of Weatherend (Is Mold)
The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn: a Rent-Controlled Apartment in Manhattan
The Trolley to Yesterday, when a Median Income Could Put You on the Housing Ladder
+++++ for John Bellairs references!!!
The Mayor of Casterbridge Is Under Investigation For Misuse Of Fair Housing Funds
The House of Mirth Is Laughing On the Other Side Of Its Face (when it compares its mortgage debt to its assessed value)
Middlemarch Is More Like Uppermarch and No One Can Afford To Live There Anymore
(you’re right, this is addictive, even if these aren’t really Gothics)
(well, maybe the Hardy)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: Is Sharing a Body Better than Sharing a $1600/month Studio?
Oh, the possibilities!
Northanger Abbey Has Been Converted into Condominiums
The Eve of St Agnes Is the Night Our Home Will Be Torn Down to Be Replaced by High-End Condos
Crimson Peak: the country’s coldest housing market.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Cosigners of a Defaulted Loan
The Monk: An Affordable Sublet That Is Really Just A Closet
Anne’s House of Reality
(okay, not gothic, but I couldn’t resist)
Related: Anne of Gables with Faded Green Paint (or just Anne of Faded Green Gables).
Anne’s House of Dreams is underwater
The Only Problem With This Apartment is the Heart Beating in the Floorboards; It’s a Steal at This Price.
The Fall of the House of Usher
Bravo, you.
WELL PLAYED
A Light in the Attic Because Our Student Renter Has Finals this Week
The Waste Land of Suburbia
Burnt Norton Owner Said To Have Burned His House Down for the Fire Insurance
(In my mental review of my bookshelves I’ve made it to the poetry shelf)
The Pit and the Penalties for Overdraft
Last night I dreamt of Manderley converting to condos.
This fixer-upper only needs a Turn of the Screw.
Release the Hounds and Hunt financial management solutions people on this, lets see if we can’t crack this mortgage refinancing
The Well Of Loneliness Gives It a Rustic Charm, Don’t You Think
The (No Longer) Shunned House (Seriously, A Detached House In Downtown Providence, R. I., Is A Steal, Huguenot Vampires Or Not!)
The Portrait of Dorian Gray is Really More the Landlord’s Taste, I’m Only Subletting Till March
The House in Dormer Forest, Quiet Neighborhood Only 7 Leagues From the City Center and Nearest Shopping Outlets (Recently Remodeled Granite Hearth!)
A Room With a View of the Alley and the Dumpsters
A Room Of One’s Own If Wages Would Keep Up With Rental Costs
To The Lighthouse To Live In A Hammock
The House Of Seven Gables Split Into 15 Studio Flats
The Horrors Of Oakendale Abbey’s Tenancy Agreements
The Bloody Chamber (That I Call Home)
The Sound And The Fury Through The Plasterboard Walls
The Great Gatsby: pushing up rent in a rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood, thanks very much.
The Phantom of the Opera and His Restructured Property Management Agreement
The Phantom of the Opera and His Restructured Property Management Agreement
Interview with the Vampire Regarding Guest Accommodations and Life Expectancies in His Various Properties
Interview with the Vampire Regarding Guest Accommodations and Life Expectancies in His Various Properties
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Except During the Remodel
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Except During the Remodel
The Woman in Black and The Woman in White Are Advertising for Additional Female Roommates
The Woman in Black and The Woman in White Are Advertising for Additional Female Roommates
The Hound of the Baskervilles Brings Down Property Values in the Neighborhood
The Hound of the Baskervilles Needs A Bigger Yard But At These Prices The Baskervilles Can’t Afford That.
The Hound of the Baskervilles Brings Down Property Values in the Neighborhood
The House at Riverton Is Listed For Sale Again After Being Taken Off the Market for Three Weeks
The House at Riverton Is Listed For Sale Again After Being Taken Off the Market for Three Weeks