#31 Day Horror House!

[bobipineman]

31 days house of horror day 10: something dangerous lurking in the fountain As you successfully slain the hog, you remark a family of rubber duck in the fountain... they weren't here before and the water jet mysteriously stopped

[bobipineman]

October may have passed, but this won't stop me. In my personal opinion november was always the real month of death. This drawathon challenge always intrigued me but never tried it So I start: day 1

OKAY my idea for a halloween drawing challenge: 31 Day Horror House

With a lot of stuff to do, I probably wouldn’t be able to join in myself this year but you know when a “haunted house” in a cartoon or video game is like an entire spooky world with just EVERY conceivable horror trope crammed under one roof? One of my favorite examples is the little known Braindead 13, but there’s lots more, so this challenge would be to populate and stylize your own! What would we call that? I guess a 31 Day Horror House!

The only rule is that every character has to be some kind of monster, and ideally a different “species” of monster every time, or at least “subspecies” if for example you wanted both a Dracula-style and Nosferatu-style vampire under one roof, or 31 different interpretations of a “space alien!” Whatever!

You could also give all of the monsters an additional theme. Maybe they’re all also plant people? Or object heads? Or different animals? Or hybrids of two different monster tropes? Maybe the house exists in some other fictional setting, like what the heck would a haunted monster mansion look like in the Star Wars galaxy or Spongebob? Whatever makes it more fun and more unique.

Day 01: a wild, feral monster that stalks the surrounding woods

Day 02: the gatekeeper of the weird old mansion you’ve found

Day 03: the butler/housekeeper who guides you around the house

Day 04: the groundskeeper/gardener

Day 05: the handymonster they might assign to “fix” your car

Day 06: the master of the household’s faithful pet

Day 07: the head chef who makes you a “nice” dinner

Day 08: some kind of pest that infests the house

Day 09: something dangerous lurking in the gardens

Day 10: something dangerous lurking in the pond, pool or fountain

Day 11: something horrible inhabiting the guest bathroom

Day 12: something they keep under a trap door to dispose of guests

Day 13: a resident that only SEEMS harmless and pleasant

Day 14: the only resident that is harmless and genuinely helpful

Day 15: a conniving double-crosser that could be helpful

Day 16: the night watch/security chief

Day 17: waste management

Day 18: the resident medical expert

Day 19: the librarian

Day 20: a scientist or inventor

Day 21: the scientist’s creation

Day 22: a more defective creation

Day 23: an artist

Day 24: a young child monster (or several)

Day 25: a nanny or on-site schoolteacher

Day 26: a pair of monstrous lovers

Day 27: something so horrible even they keep it tightly locked away

Day 28: Anything you want!

Day 29: The Head of the Household.

Day 30: What the head of the household really answers to.

Day 31: what the “main character” (or even you!) becomes when their escape fails and they join the house.

ADDITIONAL STUFF:

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[stardustprompts]

how to sell a haunted house - grady hendrix sentence starters change tenses/pronouns as needed !!  some lines have been edited for clarity / length / ease of roleplaying tw ; death , alcohol , language , mental health

‘you need to sit down.’

‘what did you do?’

‘jesus, i’m sorry I’m not doing it the right way. i’m sure you’d be perfect at this.’

‘I find knowing these details makes it easier.’

‘you should have a drink, too.’

‘i’m not going to die. not for a long time.’

‘just because we shared a bathroom for fifteen years doesn’t mean you know a thing about me.’

‘my yoga instructor knows more about me than you do.’

‘I knew you’d do this. I knew you’d show up and start telling everyone what to do.’

‘look, I know you need to be in charge, but I’ve taken care of this.’

‘stop telling me how to deal with things. things are dealt with. I dealt with them.’

‘you can’t argue with someone when they’re upset.’

‘I don’t know what got into me, but I overreacted and I’m not proud of if it, and it wasn’t fair to you.’

‘you always needed everyone looking at you.’

‘I didn’t do it for attention. I did it because I was upset.’

‘I don’t like coming in here anyways. it’s got bad vibes.’

‘you can’t put a price tag on love.’

‘being here is really bad for my mental health.’

‘I know you don’t like me because i’m not successful enough for you.’

‘i’m actually happy with my life.’

‘if we aren’t related, if we met today, we wouldn’t chose to be friends.’

‘I don’t think we should be in here at all. I think my plan was better.’

‘don’t you feel the vibes?’

‘this is happening too fast. we need to slow down.’

‘your house is haunted.’

‘every single time I give you the benefit of the doubt, or I try to help, it comes back and bites me in the ass. every! single! time!’

‘our house is not haunted.’

‘i’m telling you there’s weird vibe. I can feel it in my gut.’

‘methinks thou doth protesteth too much.’

‘ghosts don’t exist.’

‘there are true things and there are false things, and there are no in-betweens.’

‘there are facts, like houses and car accidents and cremation, and there’s bullshit like ghosts and vibes and exorcisms. and if you start getting the true things mixed up with the false things, you’re fucked!’

‘reality is not a consensus!’

‘when you don’t like the way a conversation is going you deflect with personal attacks.’

‘you’re like some kind of emotionally abusive octopus entangling everyone in your word tentacles.’

‘even I know that you don’t go back in a haunted house after dark.’

‘the only things here are memories, and those can’t hurt us.’

‘you’re very threatened by new ideas.’

‘I offered to stay tonight because I thought it would be good for you. i’m hoping it gives you some closure.’

‘why are you so mad at me? is it because you feel guilty?’

‘i’m sorry you remember it that way because that must feel terrible, but that’s not what happened.’

‘stop telling me what I remember!’

‘no one ever says no to you, (name) because we’re all scared you’re going to lose your temper.’

‘oh, fuck you. nice try, (name), but fuck you.’

‘no matter what you did, I still don’t want anything bad to happen to you.’

‘everything has to be a big production and you’re the star.’

‘everything has to be a big production and you’re the star. all because you can’t face the fact that your life is sad and empty.’

‘it’s a little late for you to start being my brother now.’

‘you blew my mind. it felt like we were the only two people left in the world.’

‘no matter what, I don’t want to ditch you here with a bunch of ghosts.’

‘right now what you need, for once in your life, is to listen to me.’

‘the way you’re laughing is actually really, really scary.’

‘none of this is real.’

‘stop being scary.’

‘I don’t think I’m well. I think something is really wrong inside me.’

‘don’t you fucking laugh at me. for the first time ever, my life finally makes sense.’

‘I don’t think I know what’s real anymore.’

‘my explanation is logically consistent. yours is all magical energy.’

‘it was absolutely terrifying.’

‘how much trouble are you in?’

‘look at me. you’re not crazy. this really happened.’

‘don’t make this funny.’

everything you’ve seen tonight, i’ve seen it too.’

‘i’m sorry I wasn’t stronger.’

‘it was easier to pretend nothing happened.’

‘my entire life I’ve always known something was wrong with me. i’ve spend my entire life scared that if didn’t do everything exactly right, reality would unravel around me and I’d lose myself again.’

‘I forgive you.’

‘I hope you feel better. i’m fine.’

‘I didn’t think you had it in you.’

‘get out of here.’

‘all the things I did, I want to forget.’

‘i’m not doing it! i’m not doing it again!’

‘you need to get out of here right now.’

‘it won’t hurt me, but it’ll hurt you. you have to go right now!’

‘don’t let him do this again. don’t let him take over.’

‘I need a beer.’

‘an apology would go a long way.’

‘can you keep it down? I had to lie about what happened to a lot of people.’

‘are you seriously upset with me because I saved your life?’

‘you need to accept reality.’

‘you’ve become such a grouch.’

‘I wish you’d let someone take care of you.’

‘do you agree that there are forces greater than this world and we are helpless in the face of them?’

‘we don’t have time to fuck around.’

‘i’d like to say this the weirdest shit that’s ever happened to me but I have a bad feeling it’s about to get a lot worse.’

‘I told you this was a bad idea.’

‘I think we’re fucked.’

‘this is wrong. what you’re doing is wrong.’

‘let’s talk about something that’s actually interesting.’

‘it just hurts a little. and by ‘a little’ I mean ‘a lot’ and also ‘all the time.’’

[divinemorcega]

A WONDERful nightmare before christmas for the Tim Burton girls.

[cyberghostface]

31 Day Horror Challenge

9. Your guilty pleasure horror movie.

House of 1000 Corpses is pretty trashy but I still enjoy it. Sid Haig's performance as Captain Spaulding remains one of my favorites.

[brokehorrorfan]

Every day is Halloween with Cavity Colors’ vintage-inspired shirts designed by Austin Pardun and Hillary White. Priced at $30, they'll ship the week of November 13.

[enterprise420patriots]

Watched "His House" (2020) yesterday. I'd give it a 5/10. Worth a watch for sure. Eerie atmosphere, Ghosts, a couple of jump scares, quite humorous at times and of course a bit of Matt Smith. What's not to enjoy for 90 minutes?

[oldfangirl81]

Day 12- Give It A Second Chance

I decided to give two remakes another try, Poltergeist (2015) and House On Haunted Hill (1999). I enjoy the originals but I'm going to attempt to not judge based on that this time.

[f0restpunk]

[cronennerd]

Favorite first watches of October:

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), dir. Jaromil Jires

Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973), dir. Richard Blackburn

Theatre of Blood (1973), dir. Douglas Hickox

Killer of Dolls (1975), dir. Miguel Madrid

The House by the Cemetery (1981), dir. Lucio Fulci

Mystics in Bali (1981), dir. H. Tjut Djalil

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002), dir. Guy Maddin

Hagazussa (2017), dir. Lukas Feigelfeld

In Fabric (2018), dir. Peter Strickland

Exhuma (2024), dir. Jang Jae-hyun

Lists of my 31 days of horror watches: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

[bobipineman]

31 days of house of horror day 11: something horrible in the guest bathroom Now having a 'urge' you go the nearest bathroom. You discover with horror a stinky massive mountain composed of wet clump of hair and black and brown scum. This thing emit a fool smell, thousand of drain fly are hovering above it. More are coming out of it mouth as it gurgle ...You get out

[witched-kid-writer]

Day Twenty-One: Fog

TW: death, violence

31 Days of Horror prompts

note: if you are one of my curse of strahd players you should consider not reading this

They don't see it roll in in the night. That, of course, is by design. If they see it all coming then they might leave, then they might try to get away and then the plan cannot go ahead, and she has been so bored as of late. The last group who came wandering into her lands didn't last nearly as long as she had wanted, which meant the game of it all was over far too fast. 

This new group, a small group of four just starting their life at the burgeoning new university, seemed to have more of what she was looking for. They wanted power, strength, adventure, everything she needed to make this all work. Everything she needed to make playing with them so much more fun.

She watches as they each wake, one by one, to an empty campus coated in a layer of fog that seems to go on forever. Concern flits across each of their faces as they stumble out of their dorm rooms and come face to face with nothing, not even the warmth of the sun they are so used to. She watches as they all find one another, all ask if they had seen anyone else or if it was just them. There is a moment she wonders if they might just stay on the campus and try and wait it all out, but then there is a cream from out in the woods.

The timing couldn't be more perfect. It makes her smile as she watches them all look to one another for just a moment before taking off towards the sound. They don't know there is no one to rescue, they don't know that they are already well within her trap and there would be no going home for them.

She watches as they make it to the old road, to the gate, to the body, to the town. She gets to revel in the look of horror on their faces once they learn that there is no escaping this place. She cannot watch always, there is too much that needs to be handled but every time she has a spare moment she looks to them.

She meets them a few times, egging them on, pushing them to try harder, to see if they can actually do anything at all.

She watches them plan, she watches them problem solve, she watches them make allies and friends. She watches them gain hope that they might win. That they might actually beat her. That there might be a chance for them to tear her down and take this world from her. She watches her subjects begin to gain a little bit of light behind their eyes as they follow these dear, sweet adventures lead.

It makes it all that much sweeter when she tears their hearts from their chests. 

[thefollows]

Last night’s viewing

[nonessentialviewing]

Asylum of Terror (1998)

[thehorrormoviechick]

For days 14, 15, and 16, I give you the hell house trilogy. These are all amazing if you love found footage horror! :)

Day 14 - Hell House LLC (2015)

Day 15 - Hell House LLC 2: The Abaddon Hotel (2018)

Day 16 - Hell House LLC 3: Lake of Fire (2019)

[stevebuscemieyes]

31 Days Of Horror:

October 2nd, Day 2/31

House On Haunted Hill, 1999

Dir. William Malone