Anne Rice
This large house in New Orleans was home to author Anne Rice from 1989 until 2004. It was the inspiration for the fictional Mayfair Manor in Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. In the series the home is the site of tragedies caused by the Mayfair family being haunted by the demon known as Lasher. Anne Rice sold the home in 2004 after converting to Catholocism and declaring that she would no longer write novels that weren't religious in nature.