To House and To Haunt
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hustler rejects no. 9 (1985)
The Color of Pomegranates (1968) - dir. Sergei Parajanov
“The haunted house is precisely that which should be homey, should be welcoming—the place one lives inside—but which has somehow become emptied out of its true function. It is terrifying because it has lost its purpose yet stubbornly persists. Neither alive nor dead but undead, the haunted house is the thing in between.”
— Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, 2014
If you post about haunted houses, haunting houses, sentient houses, hungry houses, give-to-me houses, houses as people/ghosts/animals, houses, spaces that live and breathe and hate and love, if you think it is difficult to overstate the importance of the house, if the words "Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House" mean anything to you, if your kind of haunting is architectural, leave a reply, reblog, pass this post around.
Leave recommendations of blogs that post about this kind of thing at all in the replies or reblogs and check the notes and see if you'd like to follow anyone! There is also a list of blogs (and more) under the Keep Reading break. Don't forget to check the original upload, where I might've added even more stuf!
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Robyn and Angie (1988) Del LaGrace Volcano
While a house may hunger, it cannot starve. And so in fever and anger and loneliness, it may simply lie in wait. Doors open. Shades drawn. Hallways empty. Hungry.
Anatomy (2016), Kitty Horrorshow // @briscoepark // The House is Alive and The House is Hungry, The Paper Chase // P.T. // Anatomy (2016), Kitty Horrorshow // This House Has People In It (2016) dir. Alan Resnick // The House That Dripped Blood, The Mountain Goats // “a journey into ai generated rooms” by float // Anatomy (2016), Kitty Horrorshow
jesse ball, from “how to set a fire and why”
Jon Ware, I Am In Eskew
more and more, margaret atwood
Artwork by Deryk Thomas. His artwork was also seen on the album covers by Swans on their albums White Light From the Mouth of Infinity and Love of Life.
