Commercial Haunted Houses
Further information: Haunted attractionThe concept of the haunted house was capitalized on and commercial haunted houses sprung up all over the country. An estimated 3,500 to 5,000 professional haunted attractions operate in the United States.
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Famous quotes containing the words commercial, haunted and/or houses:
“It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
“If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)