#Haunted Houses

[cupofearlgreytea]

everything is a queer metaphor if you have eyes to see

[clandestinewhore]

[weirdlookindog]

Marvin Dorwart Cone (1891–1965) - Anniversary, 1938

oil on canvas

[ishhbowl]

ive had the image of this meme in my head for so long

[mysharona1987]

[mickeymagpie]

anatomy of a haunted house

I. Bones

the creaking of floors underfoot,

the scream of wrought-iron gates swinging open,

pillar and arch, corner and frame,

the structure of a home holding itself

aloft,

alert,

alive.

II. Stomach

dark and warm

or cold and damp

or dusty-dry;

the windowless spaces—

closet, staircase, basement—

eager to carry and keep and consume and

slowly

digest.

III. Skin

every doorknob,

light switch,

cabinet,

cushion,

socks upon carpet

and hands along walls;

deaf and blind, within itself

the house senses you only,

and always,

by touch.

IV. Hands

windows open cheery-bright or

ominous dark and

giving an illusion of choice,

escape,

a world outside their embrace,

holding you close holding you safe, you're safe,

you're safe because you can see outside,

you can see what it would mean

to leave the body of home.

V. Mouth

what else could it be

but the front door?

yawning, smiling, wide and inviting,

telling you: come in, come in, come in.

the lock under your hand

bolts with the soothing note of a lullaby;

you're safe,

you're home,

come in—

and never-mind the desperate hunger.

VI. Heart

the heart allows the life of a thing,

allows it to continue being what it is.

lacking its own,

the house exists in this state

of arrested decay,

empty and yearning,

swallowing itself

trying to soothe the wretched ache.

beautiful,

bright little thing,

coveted thing,

you live inside and

give it life

again.

[kayleerowena]

new random haunted house generator just dropped!

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[ex0skeletal-undead]

Vintage inspired Halloween by Austin Pardun on Instagram

This artist’s Etsy Shop

[chronicowboy]

ghost i, christina marie brown | empty stage, franz wright | murmur, cameron barnett | ghostland: an american history in haunted places, colin dickey | virginia woolf | bluebeard's egg, margaret atwood

[virgin-martyr]

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

motherfuckers will be like "i don't even like tea" have you fucking tried keats and co?

because what you MEAN is that you don't like fucking celestial seasonings or tazo like no shit you don't THEY SUCK.

Call me when you've drunk some real tea.

[envydeath]

silence lay steadily.

things haunt, joshua jennifer espinoza // giovanni's room, james baldwin // through me (the flood), hozier // flowers in the attic, v.c. andrews // i am in eskew, jon ware // anatomy, kitty horrorshow // the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

[weirdlookindog]

Marvin Dorwart Cone (1891–1965) - Night Prowler, 1941

oil on canvas

[newblvotg]

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

a comic I made because I am so so normal about the stone tape theory