Inhabiting our Haunted Homes

main blog at moral-disorder

[ortodelmondo]

Pia Paulina Guilmoth, sanctuary/glowing, 2023

[i-kill-u-in-my-mind]

[moral-disorder]

“As always, the soucouyant seemed more lonely than bad. Maybe that was her trick, her ability to make it so you couldn’t decide if she was a monster. Still, I wondered if the salt and pepper were really necessary—they seemed too cruel when it would be easier to despatch her by blowing out her flame before it grew, or by holding a mirror up to her wrinkled face and saying, “I don’t believe in you.” But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you” is the cruellest way to kill a monster.”

— Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching

[bookwyrminspiration]

a red string of fate can be a leash. if you're enlightened

[stillunusual]

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

— Yohji Yamamoto

[funstealer]

Gaurav Gupta S/S 2026 Haute Couture

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Scars? Not body horror. Limb differences? Not body horror. Facial differences? Not body horror. Feeding tubes, colostomy bags, etc? Not body horror. Movement disorders? Not body horror. Visibly disabled people just existing is not horror.

[funstealer]

Gaurav Gupta S/S 2026 Haute Couture

[stars-bean]

Batman Returns (1992) dir. Tim Burton

[charnel-grounds]

Julia Soboleva, “Love is a dog from hell”

[lionofchaeronea]

The Garden of the Woman Learned in Magic, illustration by Edmund Dulac from Stories by Hans Andersen (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911)

[arabellas70s]

The Healers (2008)

[hillhouseeleanor]

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn // Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva

[funeral]

“Haunted houses [are] those that had soaked up emotional unpleasantness from former occupants…The emotional energy may become reactivated when later occupants of the house undergo a similar emotional disturbance. Therefore, a haunting…is produced by the merging of the two energies, one from the past, the other from the present…A reservoir of absorbed emotions that lies dormant in a house can only be activated when emotional instability is present.”

— Brad Steiger, Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places

[hantologie]

[G]hosts are gendered. [...] Of course, the very notion of gender is culturally constructed, just as ghosts are culturally constructed. Edith Wharton once asked, "What in the world constitutes a ghost except the fact of its being known for one?" Ghosts and gender both require naming and performing and are not at all uncomplicated, innate, or inherent things.

Andrea Janes, Introduction: Women, Death, and Ghosts for A Haunted History of Invisible Women

[theworldthroughfiction]

Monster Culture (Seven Theses) // Jeepers Creepers (2001) // My Brother's Creeper: Towards a Queer (Re-)Reading of Victor Salva's Jeepers Creepers (2001) // Powers of Horror

I'm working on an episode about Jeepers Creepers and made this while obsessively hyperfixating last night. The episode will be out next Sunday!

Edit: here is the episode

[worldsandemanations]

'Medusa' [oil] by Luiza Soluch