What is it about old houses that stirs the imagination? Is it the presence of the house itself? Its shuttered windows; its gaping doors..the long dark tunnel of its hall? Or is it the rememberance of some dark and secret episode of childhood? Some shameful, long-buried memory we dare not share? Gary Crew asked twelve of Australia's most exciting writers what lurks in the dark house of their imaginations and they dared to tell. If you dare to listen.