#creepy house at night

[exploringwithbeyondboundaries]

Exploring abandoned creepy house with the boys

[dolliesboneyard]

Portal from whence you came, what do you see?

[n1ghtblossom]

[scoutingthetrooper]

[melannen]

Dracula cross-stitch sampler pattern

Since I've had time on vacation, I finished up a cross-stitch pattern I started a year ago in the first Dracula Daily round, based on the words Dracula uses to greet Jonathan Harker when he comes to the castle: "Welcome to my house. Come freely, go safely, and leave some of the happiness you bring".

I wanted a sampler for my front hall, but all the patterns I could find were very Hot Topic Goth. Nothing wrong with that, but my goth aesthetic is more "creepy thing found behind the wall in an old attic", and I wanted a pattern that my aunt wouldn't realize was anything out of the ordinary. I was looking around for inspiration and stumbled on an 1871 sampler by 12-year-old Jemima Clements in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It's a little bit early for Dracula but the aesthetic was spot on, so I spent a long time squinting at a zoom of the best download of it they had to copy the wolves and the letters, and then left it for almost a year because I got frustrated trying to figure out how to get a good-formatted pattern out.

When we came up on a year I transcended frustrated and went with the good-old fashioned grandma method and transferred my pixels to a spreadsheet. So on the off chance you want a creepy Dracula sampler for your front hall, I now have it in .pdf and a downloadable Google Sheet. The .pdf is formatted to print on legal paper, but it will be a bit small that way; you are welcome to fiddle with the spreadsheets to get it the size you want.

PDF of the pattern of the Dracula quote ^this will not work if your browser redirects to https because my webhost messed that up, but it should work if you force http

Google Drive link to a shareable/downloadable Sheets file

The pattern uses 7-10 different thread colors; I don't believe in locking in brand-name floss, so the pattern includes color description and it's up to you to find stuff in your stash that looks good together.

I could not come up with a decision on the border, so the options are:

Make all the flowers plain lavender

Use a variegated purple for the flowers

Pick 4-6 different shades of lavender/light purple and alternate them - this is most similar to Jemima's border

Use the "allium flower" pixel art pattern I coded into the pattern (recommended only if you recognized the allium flower pixel art pattern I used.)

[creekbed-burial]

Is Anyone There?

[onyxfaustus]

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

I had a night terror about a creepy hand once. very unsettling

[gailstorm]

House on the hill

Bee Cave, Texas

[link-sans-specs]

I made myself into nightmare fuel.

Mythical Society

Rhett & Link Extras- Behind the Scenes of the Mouse in the House

BONUS PEEKABOO:

[mansionfreaks]

whats the inside of the mansion like. is it particularly decrepit?

heres a photo of my trip back from the basement for an ice tray. i feel like the walls that beat in rhythm with a human heart and a flooded black gore basement are kind of self explanatory on the state of the mansion.

[virgo-barbie]

i know i’m cute and bubbly and oh so very pink but you would not believe how positively horrifying my nightmares are lol

[notastranger]

[scoutingthetrooper]

michael mccluskey

[mrokat-art]

Creepy House

[mossy-rot]

been working a haunted house and now i really want a kny haunted house au. zenitsu being security and getting absolutely terrified by everything and the actors scaring him intentionally. inosuke getting a silly animal costume n mask and jumping all over the sets with noise makers. nezuko and tanjiro working ticket booths and concessions in cartoon creepy makeup. enmu being a mortician actor and using a bunch of lines related to sleep as people pass through his scene. giyuu being a puppet operator bc he was so low energy. rengoku chasing people through mazes with a chainsaw. mitsuri doing makeup and uzui doing costumes. i can't stop thinking about this au