Ghost House Revenge, the 1981 sequel, deals with a different spectre that seeks a more personal revenge against the Van Burens.
These books provide examples of:
- Big Bad: The ghosts of Starbine Court Road. Jacob Armand in 'Ghost House'. Janice Lors in 'Ghost House Revenge'.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The ghosts are able to do this as one of their powers. Jacob does it to Melanie's friend Janice, to convert her to his cause. In Ghost House Revenge Janiceis the ghost and does it to Derek, Gary's therapist. The human thralls tend to act as The Dragon.
- Cassandra Truth: Helen Jennings is the neighbour who tries to warn Melanie. The way she does it doesn't help herself, though.
- Creepy Child: Alicen becomes one as she falls under Janice's thrall.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In 'Ghost House Revenge', Alicen Miller's mother died in front of her when she was young, thus Alicen is
The Woobie. Janice uses this to get Alicen on her side. - Dead Person Impersonation: In 'Ghost House Revenge' the ghost pretends to be Alicen's mother (RE: above). Unusually for this trope, both parties are dead.
- Dragged Off to Hell: Jacob's fate in 'Ghost House'. The ghosts of his previous victims catch up to him. The ghost of his previous lover Lydia joins him, deciding You Are Worth Hell. It's weirdly heartwarming.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The house is haunted with a long history of the ghost seducing the female occupants and murdering the husband and kids.
- Heel–Face Turn:, Redemption Equals Death: Derek begrudgingly serves Janice's ghost out of fear and he's bewitched. When he does stand up to her, it costs him his life.
- Here We Go Again!: At the end of 'Ghost House', the ghost leaves. The respite is short-lived as Evil Former Friend Janice, who Melanie had killed in defence of her children, becomes the new ghost in the mansion.
- Love Makes You Crazy: A major reason why the ghosts act. Jacob Armand's lover in the 17th Century was betrayed and murdered in a witch hunt by her husband and children. His ghost, as a result, sees the women in the house as his beloved while trying to kill off the rest of the family. In 'Ghost House Revenge' Janice is more of a Yandere.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The Rodents of Unusual Size that attack Melanie; while this could happen naturally, there is the implication that it's Janice's doing.
- Old, Dark House: The titular Ghost House becomes this.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Ghosts in this setting have much more powers than most, including mind-reading, bewitchment, telekinesis, shape-shifting and reality-warping.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Police chief Bryan Davis, he realises no-one would believe that ghosts are behind the events, nor can he prove this, so he finds another way to try and explain events publically.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Despite the Van Buren's determination to stay in the house after the first haunting, they leave after Janice Lors'ghost tears Derek apart. The mansion becomes the archetypal haunted house and gets the appropriate sobriquet, Ghost House.
- Sequel Hook: The ending explicitly states a new ghost haunts the mansion.
- Tragic Villain: Jacob. His actions are a twisted attempt to rectify his lover being betrayed and murdered by her own family
- Would Hurt a Child: The 'Ghost House' ghosts are made of this. Jacob Armand does it out of confusion and past events. Janice later tries it to get more personal revenge on Melanie, her former friend.
