Corinne May Botz’s beautiful photos of haunted spaces across the US — which are featured alongside first-hand ghost stories in her book Haunted Houses (The Monacelli Press, 2010) — are the perfect way to kick off your Halloween weekend. “The series was inspired by turn of the century spirit photographs and Victorian ghost stories written by women as a means of articulating domestic discontents,” she explains. “In being the medium through which the spirit of these houses was recorded, I continued the tradition of female sensitivity to the supernatural.” Click through to check out a selection of images from the over eighty haunted sites she visited. [Spotted via Curbed]
Private Residence, Hawthorne, New Jersey. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Army Barracks, Vancouver, Washington. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Private Residence, Rhinebeck, New York. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Old Bermuda Inn, Staten Island, New York. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Apartment No.2, Brooklyn, New York. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
La Posada Hotel,Winslow, Arizona. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
La Petite Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
The Roehrs House, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
El Rancho, Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Bodie, Mono County, California. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Abandoned House, Frankfort, Maine. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Vealtown Tavern, Bernardsville, New Jersey. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Private Residence, Cumberland, Kentucky. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Private Residence, Harlan, Kentucky. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Private Residence, Clinton, Maine. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz
Atlas Theatre, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Photo credit: Corinne May Botz