You Don't Have To Be A House To Be Haunted

One need not be a Chamberâto be Hauntedâ
One need not be a Houseâ
The Brain has Corridorsâsurpassing
Material Placeâ

Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting
External Ghost
Than its interior Confrontingâ
That Cooler Host.

Far safer, through an Abbey gallop,
The Stones a'chaseâ
Than Unarmed, one's a'self encounterâ
In lonesome Placeâ

Ourself behind ourself, concealedâ
Should startle mostâ
Assassin hid in our Apartment
Be Horror's least.

The Bodyâborrows a Revolverâ
He bolts the Doorâ
O'erlooking a superior spectreâ
Or Moreâ