Smtimes your house is haunted because there’s a ghost sometimes your house is haunted because you miss grandma and your mom misses her even more sometimes your house is haunted because the subtext of how the last owners decorated rubs you wrong way sometimes your house is haunted because you’ve sublimated the fact that you didn’t want to move in the first place and Sometimes your house is haunted because there’s a carbon monoxide leak. Lots of options.
It wasn’t such a bad place, she thought, once you got out of the house. It was the house that disfigured the land.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Noemí tried to think of the house filled with the noise of children’s laughter, children playing hide and seek, children with a spinning top or a ball between their hands. But she couldn’t. The house would not have allowed such a thing. The house would have demanded they spring from it fully formed.
i will never in my whole life not be emotional about how many times cara mia shows up in the portal soundtrack. the fact its in the SOUND of the hardlight bridges is the most bonkers thing in the whole world. man. portal.
portal is a game about being in a place that you hate so goddamn much that you start tearing at the walls to get out and its a place that hates YOU and is incredibly deeply dangerous and wants you DEAD and you end up in a horrible stalemate where the aperture facility is a shambling corpse full of rotten water and decay that is TRYING to pull itself back together but of course you could never, never escape it and then you realize its built on its own goddamn bones like 4 times over and every previous iteration is just as mean and nasty and just as empty and has just as much implied hurt in it and then it LETS YOU GO in the single most viscreal scene in any video game ever and its as you leave you realize its been singing to you the entire time. the aperture facility is a haunted house!!!!! god!!!!
i’ve ported my spatial horror reclist to notion to make it easier to sort and filter! everything is arranged by type, subtype, and a key describing what kind of hauntings are present in the work, and you can filter by any of those things.
hello haunted house corner of tumblr! today i would like to recommend you a comic. it’s called home sick pilots (written by dan watters, drawn by caspar wijngaard, lettered by aditya bidikar) and it’s about:
haunted houses
haunted houses piloted like mechs
copious use of the color pink
teenage punks in the 90s
haunted houses piloted like mechs fighting each other
the inseparable connection between ghosts and trauma
did i mention it’s like if you combined the haunting of hill house and pacific rim. did i mention that part
the art and writing are both completely gorgeous! look at that shit!! it’s incredible!!!
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