{"product_id":"2940012539632","title":"The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories","description":"Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are evil. Willy nilly, they seem to communicate an atmosphere of secret and wicked thoughts which makes those in their immediate neighbourhood shrink from them as from a thing diseased.\u003cbr\u003eAnd, perhaps, with houses the same principle is operative, and it is the aroma of evil deeds committed under a particular roof, long after the actual doers have passed away, that makes the gooseflesh come and the hair rise. Something of the original passion of the evil-doer, and of the horror felt by his victim, enters the heart of the innocent watcher, and he becomes suddenly conscious of tingling nerves, creeping skin, and a chilling of the blood. He is terror-stricken without apparent cause.","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081432645872,"sku":"2940012539632","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012539632_p0.jpg?v=1763569768","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012539632","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}