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I've been brainstorming for my capstone recently and have amassed a decently sized list of stuff in this niche and I wanted to compile it here.
CRITERIA: Has a Fucked Up House TM in it and has a focus on the setting itself. Some of these are solely hostile architecture, some are more traditional hauntings or have sci-fi elements, but the focus remains on the House.
PROSE:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. On here for obvious reasons.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Also here for obvious reasons.
Conditions of Absolute Reality by tin_tweezers on AO3. This is a Critical Role fanfic and has major campaign two spoilers, but even without knowledge of the series, its imagery is very striking. Heed the tags for content warnings.
Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George. Ok, this one's an outlier. This is actually a children's book series I read in elementary school that has stuck with me to this day. The ever-changing castle is actually (generally) benevolent and protective of its royal family, but I wanted to include it anyway.
MOVIES/TV:
Haunting of Hill House (the 2018 miniseries). Drastically different from the book it's vaguely based on, but still about a Fucked Up House full of 2937423947 ghosts, and it's just a generally excellent story about grief.
Magnetic Rose (1995, part of the anthology Memories). The first entry of three in an anthology of animated short(ish) films and the animation is stunning. Fucked Up House but in outer space!
Ghostwatch (1992). This one's a pretty standard ghost haunting movie, but it was filmed as a mockumentary like it was airing as a live news tv segment (and then it aired on the BBC and concerned a lot of viewers.) Earned a place on this list because it scared the shit out of me. It's the kind of lurking horror that has you questioning every closed door and dark hallway and corner of the house.
PODCASTS:
I Am In Eskew. This series is about a Fucked Up City instead of a single House, but it's got so many themes of hostile architecture I had to include it. Plus, it's only 30 episodes, so it's not a super long listen.
Mabel. Feywild shit. It's trippy and cool. Unfortunately hasn't been updated since 2022 though, and I'm not sure if there are plans to continue the story.
MUSIC:
House of Eternal Return by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley
Haunted House by Florence and the Machine. Pretty simple lyrically but it sounds haunting in a way I can't explain idk
MISC.
Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House, a video essay by Jacob Geller. This video is fucking phenomenal (just like all this guy's video essays) and is largely what inspired me to compile this list in the first place. It talks about several video games which I haven't played, but check them out they seem neat.
FINAL SIDE NOTE: I have a shortage of comics/graphic novels that fit into this niche, please please recommend me some if you know any. Or just any media that fits this in general thanks
Warning: violence (canon compliant), a bit of Mithra/Owen depiction but the main focus will still be Cain and Owen pair. Only up to the third act is available for now.
More information (and images) under the cut ⬇ (please read first if you're going to try out the game! 🙏)
Additional warning: this work isn't beta-read, there will be a lot of errors and inconsistencies ⚠
Playtime is going to be 4 hours roughly. Recorded on auto, Act I takes up one and a half hour to finish, but if you're a fast reader it won't take as long.
Initially, I intended to use ATTWN as a placeholder title... Since I can't come up with something better, I ended up using it 🙇🏻♀️
The officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of the Temeraire novel series by Naomi Novik!
This is launching tomorrow! Super excited; Magpie Games are doing this and they've got a really great approach to the RPG that lets players play both people and dragons \o/ Check out if you're into TTRPG!
Another one from ArtFight 2025, this si Rhodolite by S-L-Y-S-D (her username at https://artfight.net/) and he was a ton of fun to draw!
S-L-Y-S-D's art style and coloring is so nonchalant and I tried to somehow get that on paper, too. I am really happy with the results (I think I will always prefer art on paper, even if it is much much slower to achieve).
Mainly watercolor and some pencils on not so watercolor friendly but at least thick sketchbookpaper :->
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