The Dead Mall Hotel

Liminal Spaces, Surreal Horrors, & Strange Beasts roam, down at the Dead Mall Hotel Written and Illustrated by O.M. Graves

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The Dead Mall Hotel is a fictional archive about an interdimensional, ever-changing, eldritch entity in the form of an amalgamated mall hotel. Built during the 70’s in the ghost town of Serenity, Washington, this semi-dormant giant lurks just beyond our reality, swallowing victims in brief moments of lucidity. Its rooms and floors make up different planes of Unreality; liminal spaces harboring unknown entities waiting to be discovered. Friends and foes can be found everywhere, but a way out is yet to be discovered.

This blog is broadcast from a base in room 219 on the 11th floor; if you ever find yourself lost in the planes, we’ll be waiting for you here.

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Credits:

Written and Illustrated by O. M. Graves

You can also find me on Bluesky and Instagram @ HauntedbyAnimals but this is where I'll be most active

The Dead Mall Hotel © 2022 by @hauntedbyanimals is licensed under CC BY-NC 4. 0

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Unknown Journal Entry # --8

“I’ve discovered these delightful creatures I’m naming ‘Mechanical Bugs’. I would have gone with ‘Mechanical Insects’ though after finding variants like the arachnid and isopod look alikes it would feel contradictory to do so.

Mechanical bugs are found primarily in overgrown planes that contain some form of tech such as live screens. They are abundantly found on Floor 11 - Room 36, ‘The Overgrown’ in particular due to the ideal conditions of this habitat. They cannot survive long outside these conditions. After many failed attempts, I’ve finally perfected recreating these ideal conditions in an enclosure form so that I can travel with them as companions.

During my research I’ve learned about their utility capabilities, intelligence, and capacity to be trained. These organisms are capable of repairing objects, warning for predators, and creating fuel sources. During my observations I have witnessed a variety of ‘species’ similar to our own back home. These species specialize in different tasks such as; spiders with different screw driver heads for feet and a work-light abdomen, ‘silkworms’ that produce synthetic fibers, and USBeetles that reboot the tech when they get viruses.

Mechanical bugs have a mutualistic relationship with the plants they live with, where the bugs maintain and repair the plants, while plants provide decaying matter for the bugs to convert into a fuel source. Plants in this plane in particular have grown hostile towards human shaped entities due to a group of poachers in the past. The poachers collected as many mechanical bugs as they could find and salvaged them for parts and energy sources, causing the population to decline and a temporary period of hardship for the plants.

If you plan on taking any as utility companions, be sure to only take a few, ideally luring them into enclosures rather than snatching them up to avoid aggressive behavior from the plants."

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"Coming Soon!" Poster

*This photo has been altered for viewer safety.

The promotional poster for the grand opening of Serenity Mall from the weathered bag. The number of stories for the hotel was scratched off at the time of discovery; however, [REDACTED] Fashion & Beauty has been altered due to injury to staff upon viewing the content.

Potential symptoms when reading include: paranoia, migraines, nausea, hives, skin lesions, mild hallucinations, mania, sanity loss, yellowing of the eyes, and upset stomach.

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Pretzel People - Restaurant

Approved sign schematics for the restaurant "Pretzel People" and a photograph of their food when it first opened. What originally started out as cute pretzels shaped like people and a booming restaurant, slowly became vacant as they morphed into the shapes of "human pretzels", physically contorted with pained expressions.

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Unknown Journal Entry # ---

"In the middle of nowhere, lies the center of our universe; Shrouded by mountains and trees, a forgotten dream sleeps.

Those who remember, called it Serenity Mall..." - Unknown

A partial entry from the damaged journal found in the weathered bag, which was discovered 3 miles from the town's last known location on the side of an old hiking trail. This is what led us here.

Inside the bag, other artifacts that were recovered include:

1 broken camcorder

2 corrupted SD cards

1 broken glass box with a dead insect inside (non-native species)

1 woodcarving of [REDACTED]

1 shattered magic 8-ball

3 cassette tapes

1 crumpled "Coming Soon!" poster for The Mall