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Sources/Resource:
- The Winchester Mystery House – Official Website
- Atlas Obscura – The Winchester House
- All That’s Interesting – “The True Story Behind the Bizarre Mansion”
- Smithsonian Magazine
- Mary Jo Ignoffo, Captive in the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune (2012)
- Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (2017)
- Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore (2007)
- The Winchester Mystery Mansion and Sarah Winchester are mentioned in the chapter “Gender and Ghosts” (Jeannie Banks Thomas) as well as “Haunted Houses” (Sylvia Ann Grider)
- Podcast: History Chicks’ coverage of Sarah Winchester
Fiction and/or Works Inspired by the Winchester Mystery House
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (originally published in 1959)
- The Haunting of Hill House (2019 Netflix Series)
- Stephen King’s Rose Red (2001 miniseries)
- Disney’s Haunted Mansion – The Winchester House was the alleged inspiration!
- Winchester (2018 movie filmed on location at the WMH!)
Books Mentioned:
- Kristin McGlothlin, Drawing with Whitman (2019)
- Lilianne Milgrom, L’Origine: The Secret Life of the World’s Most Erotic Masterpiece (2020)
- Mary Gray, Rental Diaries: Thoughts from my Four Walls in Florence (2020)
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Thanks for listening, ya’ll!
-Lindsay
