October 1 of Dollopween: All of the Halloween-related tags of thedollop.net, plus my photographs from my visit to the spooky Winchester House, such as they are (story below).
In no particular order…
- getting away with murder
- bad medicine
- sex police
- creepy boundaries
- good touch bad touch
- surgery for an audience
- left him for dead
- home labs
- bomb goes boom
- man v. beast
- homegrown religion
- eugenics
- medical abuse
- cults
- religious abuse
- horror
- horror movies
- horror novels, horror books
- horror games
- horror tv
- Australian horror
- Australian horror movies
- urban legends
- ghosts
- hauntings
- ouija boards
- exorcisms
- spiritualism
- serial killers
- zombies
- vampires
- parapsychology
plus…
- phobias
- arachnophobia
- coulrophobia
- odontophobia
- taphophobia
- graves
- graveyards
- cemeteries
- grave-robbing
- grave torpedo
- funeral industry
and then, certainly in no particular order:
movies, novels, games…
The Blair Witch Project, Dying Breed, Ghost Ship, Halloween, Stones of Death, The Babadook, Wolf Creek, Session 9, The People Under the Stairs, Tentacles, Bad Ronald, Hellraiser, The X-Files, Nosferatu, Cloverfield, Beetlejuice, The Skeleton Key, Altered States, The Exorcist, Witchboard, The Bottoms, The Walking Dead, Dark Ride
authors, directors, creators…
Stephen King, Wes Craven, Vincent Price, Clive Barker, Rob Zombie, Shirley Jackson, Tim Curry, F. W. Murnau, Joe Hill, Jack Vance, Thomas Harris, Silence of the Lambs, Edward Gorey, Forrest J. Ackerman, Ray Bradbury, Tobe Hooper, Final Destination, , Joe Lansdale, Fangoria, Edgar Allan Poe
Sarah Winchester lost her child and her husband, and, alone in the world and feeling guilty for being the heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, sought out a psychic. The psychic told Sarah that she was haunted by the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles. Sarah needed to build a home for them–and never stop building. Ever.
Construction began in 1884 and never stopped, 24-7, until Sarah’s death on September 5, 1922. She held a seance every night in a special room that only she was allowed to enter.
So many 13s throughout the house. Everywhere.
Happy Dollopween! Welcome to the party!
