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A very early work, published in the late 1880s or early 1890s, by A.M. Van Amburgh was called The Demoniac, or the Living Man
The plot summary on Wikipedia reads:
After a series of inexplicable events, a group of men, including a professor and a reporter, investigate an abandoned mansion that was once home to a mysterious cult known as the "The Cult of Aton." They discover an ancient manuscript, written by a professor in Paris in 1780, describing the last rites of a group called the "Guild of the Living God", which led to the creation of a mysterious device known as the "Stone of the Ages" that has an extraordinary power to summon ghosts. The discovery of the manuscript is followed by strange events, including a series of hauntings, a large explosion, and the apparent appearance of the ghost of a man who was allegedly killed in the explosion. During these events, one of the survivors of the explosion is injured and finds himself locked in the titular house.
The story has been republished a few times since, and is part of the Library of Famous Fantastic Mysteries, the first series of volumes of pulp fiction.
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I do not think this is what you are asking about, but I thought I would point out that A.M. Van Amburgh (1839-1924) wrote a book called The Demoniac or The Living Man and it is mentioned on Wikipedia that this was an early "supernatural" story. I did not find any mention of the word "haunt" in the entire book, although I only skimmed the thing. It does mention "haunted houses".
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I think you might be thinking of the book The Haunted House by Edgar Allan Poe.