Creepy Houses.

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I love doing Google image searches for random things. It's amazing what beautiful images can turn up with the right words.

Lately, because I really want to write a novel, I have been looking at derelict houses. I find this one striking.

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Do you wonder what stories it has to tell? I do. Entire generations might have come and gone through it's doors. Mostly I see a house that lost the love of it's owners, and then time took over.

The world will look like this not long after humanity is one day gone. A whole planet of rotting splendour, handed back to the plants and the animals. Frankly, I agree with what Stephen King called in The Stand a season of rest for the world.

Thanks to @pipercadence for reminding me about the brilliant 'Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley Jackson. While it's in my head, I will also throw in some other classic haunted houses from popular culture ( keep in mind I'm a massive Stephen King fan )

1. The house on Neibolt Street from 'It'. Pennywise's funhouse.

2. The Overlook Hotel from 'The Shining'. Thanks to this gem, I can't ever keep a shower curtain closed.

3. The Nostromo from Ridley Scott's Alien ( yes it pushes the boundary of what is a haunted house, but trust me it is )

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pipercadence:
I would go for Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.  "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."
gladyce:
I love it!

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