THE SPOOKY side of Wuthering Heights will be brought to life this month during a special art event in Haworth.

The walk-in video and audio installation, entitled Stormy House/Arashi no ie, also draws on traditional Japanese ghost stories.

The aim of the installation – in the former school room where the Brontë sisters taught – is to immerse the visitor in the world of Emily Brontë’s famous Gothic novel.

The work is the latest project from Worth Valley-based Whitestone Arts and forms part of the museum’s celebrations for the bicentenary of the birth of Emily Brontë.

Visitors are invited to enter a space inspired by Japanese tea house architecture, created by 59 Productions, the video-design team behind the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Once inside, visitors encounter multiple projections telling stories through shadow play, landscape and sound.

The Stormy House installation explores links between the spirit-world elements of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and ancient Japanese ghost tales or ‘kaidan’, collected and translated into English by 19th century author Patrick Lafcadio Hearn.

Judith Adams, writer of Stormy House/Arashi no ie, said: “There are many fictional and biographical connections between Brontë and Lafcadio Hearn, none stranger than the fact that Emily Brontë sited her imaginary world of Gondal in the North Pacific.

“A lifelong immersive game of acting out personas and imaginary worlds gave birth to Wuthering Heights, the landscape of which is a hybrid of Haworth Moor and unbounded childhood imagination.

“The characters in our Stormy House installation are also playing.”

Judith said the Whitestone team had been particularly inspired by the ghost story, In A Cup of Tea, which explores the probable consequences of ‘swallowing a soul’.

She added: “Lockwood is the only character in Wuthering Heights who sees young Cathy’s ghost in the flesh and then cannot escape her presence.

“At the centre of our teahouse space is a teacup with magical properties, like the Mirror of Many Souls in a Shinto shrine, and where the worlds of Lockwood and Lafcadio Hearn collide.”

Stormy House/Arashi no ie runs at the Old School Room, across the cobbles from the Brontë Parsonage Museum, from November 3 to 11, from 10.30am to 5pm daily. Admission is free.

Stormy House is written and created by Judith Adams, Stacey Johnstone and Simon Warner in collaboration with Misuzo Kosaka, Natsuko Toyoshima, Ima Tenko, Riko Murakami, Ayaka Morimoto, Aaron White and Zoe Katsilerou.

The installation is by Whitestone Arts and 59 Productions, in partnership with the Brontë Parsonage Museum and Theatre in the Mill.

It is supported by Arts Council England, British Council, Bradford Metropolitan District Council, The Japan Society and Wabi Sabi Design.

Visit bronte.org.uk for further information.