That was fun.

Are you sure?

Since you asked…several different contractors, working on different parts of the building, unaware of each other. He'd often fire them right before their par of the job was done and finish it himself, his own way…

It looks like "burned to the ground" is an exaggeration - "gutted" is more like it.

His hijinks really can haunt your dreams if you're not careful. At least one man he stretched on his custom-made rack (yes, really) until he signed over his property - then finished him off, of course.

Ah, maybe this explains the discrepancy. Kind of a weird building to rebuild though…

For some reason I've always pictured Daniel Day Lewis as HHH Holmes.

And I believe the police and press did to a rather thorough search and exploration of the place. Talk about the stuff of nightmares…the one that stuck with me was a room only accessible by going through another room, which then was locked from the outside and filled with suffocating gas. The room was then accessed…

It was never burned to the ground, was it? There was a mysterious fire in the added third (fourth) story earlier, but the building stood for many more years.

Holland Taylor is consistently funny, as she has been for the last thirty years or so. The character of Berta might be "from central casting", but there's nothing wrong with that intrinsically - she's got the character nailed perfectly, so to speak.

Male victims too. As long as there was a buck in it for him, he didn't discriminate. Men were harder to "disappear", though - sad but true.

Oh, that's just the money screaming for help.

The Castle building (sans burnt-out upper story) was still in use long after the Fair/Holmes events. Until the seventies, maybe? At least the fifties.

Robert Bloch
I recently read Robert Bloch's unfinished book about HHH Holmes. What creeped me out most (and it's all genuinely horrifying) is that apparently Holmes was sane, and committed all the murders for financial gain. He was also perpetrating various cons elsewhere in the country, under various aliases. He…

OK, this just frustrates me
Why didn't they just keep it on the air when it was called "Eastwick"? Which ALSO was adapted into a tv series twice…I really liked the one from last year and was very disappointed when it was cancelled.

Y'all know it's condos now, right? Yuck. There's also an old forbidding-looking Catholic school in my city that's now apts/condos. YUCK. You couldn't PAY me to live there!

Local affiliates have ultimate control over what they air. In the 80s my local NBC affiliate pushed back Late Night by a half hour to air Laugh-In reruns, for instance. It also used to be VERY common for affiliates in Southern states to refuse to air "racially objectionable" material.

Leonard, thank you for the opening
"Worst case, eh? What if I told you it was a church-sponsored costume party?"

It breathes the same air as the Roseanne Halloween episodes too. Loved it.

Session 9 was a giant disappointment. It totally wasted the Haunted Hospital premise. Very atmospheric, ultimately adding up to NOTHING at all.