Author Ingrid Hall:
I haven’t had time to run a specific Halloween post, so I am sharing Lenora’s INCREDIBLE Haunted Doll’s House post. Have a spooktacular Halloween people!
Originally posted on The Haunted Palace:
As I won’t be in reach of the internet on the night itself – here is my slightly early offering for Halloween. Enjoy…
‘Strawberry Hill Gothic’ style dolls house. Image adapted by Lenora.
There has always been something innately creepy about the trappings of childhood – from cursed dolls to self-propelling rocking horses – the contents of the nursery has more often than not been the stuff of nightmare and horror. Perhaps it is the ease with which such objects of innocence can transform themselves, with only a change in the quality of light or a sense of unobserved movement, into the uncanny or sinister.
Image by Lenora
Dolls houses have always held a particular fascination for me, perhaps it is because peering in at the windows of the world in miniature, you cannot help but imagine what dreadful stories might be unfolding behind the twee facade. I have to…
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Published on October 30, 2015 07:51