Text Sources: Wikipedia (Haunt), Wikipedia (Haunted House), Wikipedia (Stigmatized Property), Wikipedia (Ghost), Wiktionary (Haunt), Wiktionary (Alone), Wikipedia (Abandonment - Legal), Wikipedia (Ghost town), Wikipedia (Architecture), Wikiquote (Ghosts), Wikiquote (Solitude), Wikiquote (Loneliness)
Image Sources: Putnam House Floor Plans, Plan of House of Sallustius in Mau, JW Keith House (Summer Cottage Floor Plans), PSM V41 D852 Ground Floor Plan of Somesco House at Creil Oise, France, Plan of House of the Surgeon
“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!
🏚️The houseposting¹ niche must unite...🏠
Growing list of blogs² and their tags for this topic:
haunthouse
kurulover #house is an animal
kayleerowena
hous3-of-leaves
eskewcity #on haunting
very-tired-child #genius loci
andromerot #hill house
tallahasseemp3 #hauntings
regrind-the-lens
spirifage #the beauty of the house is immeasurable; its kindness infinite)
hauntinghouse #haunting house
shelterwoodpod
cryptidbeowulf #this haunting is architectural
scorndotexe
merricatcoded #haunting #eternal return
¹ Not just houses. Any kind of haunted space, wrong space, infinite space is welcome. The haunting need only be architectural in some form. Besides- not every house is a home, and not every home is a house.
² Many, perhaps most of these blogs are not exclusively about this topic- this very blog is not exclusively about houses! They may have dedicated tags, which I've included, or only post about it on occasion. They're good blogs.
As a treat, I'm including a Google Drive link with a handful of works relevant to this topic. Books, book chapters, essays, etc. Most of it is non-fiction, cultural and artistic analysis.
Yes, House of Leaves is there. Yes, I know- I have a physical copy. This is a good scan though, so if anyone can't get their hands on a copy, it'll suffice.
If you can't access Google Drive or are having issues with the files, send me a message or an ask over on my main at @cornerfolks.
As an extra treat, here is a list of media recommendations which you can add to by sending me your suggestions. Everything will have free links (except for independent artists' work) or pointers. Completely random order.
HOUSE OF LEAVES, Mark Z. Danielewski (in the Drive)
ANATOMY, Kitty Horrorshow (check out her other works as well)
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, Shirley Jackson (in the Drive)
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, Mike Flanagan (please use adblock)
THE TURN OF THE SCREW, Henry James (in the Drive)
THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR, Mike Flanagan
CONTROL, Remedy Games (get qbittorent)
MABEL, Becca De La Rosa & Maybell Marten (also on Spotify)
THE HOUSE IN THE OCEAN, Alex Casanas
ASH, Tracy K. Smith
I AM IN ESKEW, I can't find the creators' names? (this fits, so I've heard...)
SKINAMARINK, Kyle Edward Ball (I haven't actually seen this yet, somehow?)
CONTROL, ANATOMY, AND THE LEGACY OF THE HAUNTED HOUSE, Jacob Geller (<3)
GAMING'S HARSHEST ARCHITECTURE: NAISSANCE AND ALIENATION, Jacob Geller.
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
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gracieabrams
kianamaiart
snowghoul
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