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A collection of curated encounters with the beautifully unsettling.
cloakroom notices
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Reanimal: Because Apparently Valentine’s Week Needed More Trauma
Every so often, a game appears that makes you squint at the screen and think, “Haven’t I been traumatised by this art style before?” Enter Reanimal.
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Mama: A Mother’s Love Is Forever (Whether You Like It or Not)
A ghost is an emotion bent out of shape, condemned to repeat itself time and time again, until it rights the wrong that was done.
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Unlocking Netflix’s Hidden Horror
Netflix is many things. Convenient, overwhelming, and occasionally determined to hide every horror film you actually want to watch. Fortunately, the House Keeper has recently discovered a little‑known workaround.
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Dark Secrets: A Survival Kit of Belief, Hiding Beneath Waterloo
Twenty-seven rooms exploring Voodoo rites, Freemason temples, alchemical experiments, witchcraft, demonology, séances, and even the world’s largest collection of haunted dolls.
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A reminder that society can, in fact, get worse: 28 Years Later
In case you missed it at the Cinema, you can now enjoy the chaos, panic, and the gentle reminder that society can, in fact, get worse, from the comfort of your own living room.
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The House of Last Resort, Christopher Golden
The House Keeper placed this on the list with a small, satisfied nod. “Homes like this don’t settle,” she said. “They wait.” Whether she meant the fictional house or ours was unclear. We decided not to press the matter.
Welcome Home
A collection of curated encounters with the beautifully unsettling.
ODDITIES FROM THE HOUSE
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Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Because apparently the Upside Down wasn’t content with just haunting Netflix.
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Manifestations of your unresolved guilt: Return to Silent Hill
Nothing says “fresh year, fresh start” like voluntarily returning to a town that behaves like a psychological escape room designed by someone who personally hates you.
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Cling to the Darkness: Quiet Horror to Keep the Festive Glitter at Bay
We’re still tethered to Halloween’s shadow, holding onto the last scraps of darkness before before December’s glitter seeps into the foundations and mingles with the dust. Call it denial – or just good taste before the season turns obnoxiously bright.
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The Hill of Bones, Bunhill Fields; 360 Years Forgotten
London isn’t short on cemeteries. With around 85,000 deaths recorded in the capital each year, we all have to end up somewhere. And yet, in a city founded nearly 2,000 years ago, burial space is running out.
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From Goosebumps to Gothic, The British Library Presents: Tales of the Weird
There’s nothing more beautiful than a bookshelf filled with stories, and nothing more haunting than one where the covers all speak as one.
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Dark Castle Wasn’t On The Map, But Blockbuster Showed Us the Way
Back then, horror didn’t come to you. You had to go looking for it. We didn’t have Sky. No easy access to YouTube trailers. No algorithmic nudges. We had the Horror aisle of Blockbuster.
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The Architect of Oddity: Tim Burton’s Emotional Blueprints
Crooked lines, pale faces, and a kind of melancholy that feels oddly comforting. Like many, his worlds have always felt familiar to me. Instantly recognizable, and comforting in the most macabre way.
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A Forgotten Portal: The Crystal Palace Subway
Once a grand entrance for first-class passengers arriving to visit the relocated Crystal Palace, this subterranean vestibule now stands as a poetic echo of a vanished era.
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Indika: A Pilgrimage Through the Absurd and the Divine
In my procrastination to avoid committing 80+ hours of my life to Death Stranding 2, I accidentally stumbled into a 4-hour existential crisis.
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Drawn to the Skull: Encountering Gary James McQueen
“The beauty and the brutal, the macabre and the romantic, life and death – is at the core of my practice.” – Gary James McQueen
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Still Wakes the Deep: A Very British Horror Story
Reflections on crafting horror that feels distinctly British – rooted in isolation, industrial melancholy, and emotional realism.
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Rubislaw Quarry: An Introduction to Strange Pt.1
I’ve been trying to pinpoint the exact moment I realised I was ‘into’ things other people just weren’t. Two obscure fascinations spring to mind
Write to The House
Have your own curiosity to share?
Why not write to the House.
Letters tend to vanish into the study, where the House Keeper reads them with the solemn focus of someone deciphering ancient hieroglyphs.
All letters are read. Some are answered. A few are filed in the archives for reasons the House Keeper refuses to elaborate on.
House of Solitude 