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Feb 14, 2009 12:46PM
I'm not sure if this is really a dying plot problem, but I'll post it here. I have a story, and there needs to be a really creepy haunted place for them to live at, and i orignaly thought asylum, but have no clue what they look like, so are there any ideas for the place?
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I meant more the inside. What does HTH mean?
Me neither-I was just using my common sense, lol.
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anyway. Did Paul's information help or not?
Most Victorian asylums were large houses barely converted. The doctor or administrator would have a suite of large, nice rooms, traditionally on the ground floor. Kitchens and scullery at the back. First and second floors would be usually converted into small, narrow rooms with iron-framed cots, perhaps a table and chair. Patients went here. Bars on the windows.The staff (cleaners, nurses) would live in small rooms on the top floor.
The servants' quarters could be reached by a narrow staircase at the back of the house, starting from just outside the kitchens. A much grander staircase would lead up from the large front hall to the 1st and 2nd floors.
Open fireplaces in the ground floor rooms.
Cellars - including wine cellars - probably converted to house the more 'difficult' patients. Most of the seriously nasty stuff would have occurred down here.
IMHO, HTH, LOL :-)
Wow, those asylums are gorgeous Paul. We have a couple old deserted aylums in Philly, and they're just plain brick buildings.
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Thank you! I realized I couldn't use it though, but thanks anyway! I'll use the abandoned jail idea though!
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Also, If you're using a jail, you should make sure that you describe it with vines and stuff, very overgrown, and something else that is creepy is a disused well, like in Coraline.
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Vines and crumbling brinks? Maybe some bats? And of course rats.
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Like the graffiti idea! (and you were the one who suggested the crumbling bricks)
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Marisol you have a thing about cliche don't you? LOL!
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That is true but cliches are not always bad. sometimes they can be used well.
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I'm here. Sorry. Thanks for the help. Hey! Wait, I'm not a he! I'm a she!
Lie. It's not my real name, it's a characters name. Yeah, I didn't know lye is used in soap....
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I DON'T WANT TO CHANGE IT! WHY WOULD I?
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Wow, I probaly shouldn't have done all caps... sorry. I have freak outs like that sometimes.
Lye is a cool name. I like it. Do you know it's origins--the meaning behind the name? (I'm always curious about stuff like that :P) And if the jail doesn't work out you could always try using an abandoned hospital (don't read about many of those). But so many have been used: jails, hotels, asylums. I don't think haunted schools have been used much . . .
Once I was in a large metal warehouse building that sold used office furniture. The front half had OK furniture but the back half (dividing wall with doors to pass from front to rear of building) was creepy- it smelled like rat poison. Furniture was covered with dust, had faded colors, missing legs, lots of metal shelving. Maybe use a non-traditional creepy place like this in the story - creepy because of the version of itself versus a cliche creepy place.
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