Reminds me of a Ravenloft setting campaign...

A 'wandering' domain that consists of a single haunted house; The House of Lament. Its controlled by the fused spirit of the house and that of a woman who was murdered there, and has gone quite mad. Visitors will find themselves trapped until at least one of them dies inside the house. The soul of the dead person is then added to those within its walls to try and soothe the loneliness of the one in charge... which never seems to help.

There's one adventure there specifically in which the famous Doctor Van Helsing finally dies inside the house, but manages to finally appease the spirit within...

'Mother! Oh God. . .mother! Blood. . .blood!'

Sorry, the piece just gave off a very Block/Hitchcock sort of vibe. Excellently creepy UV. ^.^

~Ecksu

There's also that one room in that house with ghastly yellow wallpaper...

As gorgeous at this is, that wall on the far left seems just a liiittle bit out-of-place... I think it has to do with the corner furthest from us having a somewhat "bulgy" linework to it.
Besides that, I'm floored... the details in the sky and on the beach are breathtaking and spooky.

That's the non-Euclidean geometry. :)

"Non-Euclidean geometry often makes appearances in works of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Its usage is most clearly tied with the influence of the 20th century horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. In his works, many unnatural things follow their own unique laws of geometry. This is said to be a profoundly unsettling sight, often to the point of driving those who look upon it insane."

That sounds like Sigil, yes.

ohhh spooky

I also tend to forget the flash on my camera is on when photographing paintings in historic building. I lose more cameras that way.

Rooby Roooo!

well either two things happen next, a meteor crashes in the houses back yard and 7 out of place kids walk up and break in the place to investigate

or

a man or woman in light brown pants and a green top get out of a old taxi and walk up to the attic only to be attacked by zombies and misshaped wearwolfs as they walk to the basement


bonus if you know what each of those are from ;p

Don't be a tuna head, Bernard.



Unfortunately, the real reference this picture was aiming for seems to have gotten rather obscure. Sigh. I must be getting old. :)

hummm any hints so that i may continue to feel equally as old

That game '7th Guest', maybe? That's what it reminds me of.

Or some old Hitchcock story or Poe or something.

Yesssss. :)

Awesome! I was the first to get the reference to 7th Guest. I still have the game, as well as the box, actually. :}===<

If only I had won something with my useless trivia knowledge. By the way, did you ever get to play the sequel, 'The 11th Hour'? Sadly, I did not.

The light globe burnt out and they spent the next two hours blinking at the patterns that had been burnt onto the back of their retinas. I always go for the boring explanation. Although no one could explain why the patterns were what they were...

Balderdash. They would have been eaten by Grues. :)

Well, if they forgot to put on their Grue-be-gone then they most definately deserve to be eaten.

spooky. i'm probably wrong, but since everyone else is guessing.... ummm... House on Haunted Hill?

Sorry! -grin-

Reminds me of 7th quest box art. Now that was a creepy game.

"..but if you should see old man Stauf,
get on your knees and pray"


:)

My first guess was "The Strange High House in the Mist," but the only door to that house was on the cliff side (the first step was a doozy :) ).

I'm afraid I'm stuck at Lovecraft. Whatever reference makes you feel old is probably too recent for me.

Hmm.. And thats a story I've not read yet I think.. will have to fix that! It was 7th guest, circle takes the square. :)

As I suspected, I am too out of touch to have heard of your reference.

As for "The Strange High House...", here is a link to an on-line version: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrar.....einthemist.htm . That site seems to have just about all of his stories.

Neat house :3

~N~

I agree with the others. It reminds me of the 7th guest house (From the computer game of course). But I love it... The twisted aspect of the picture makes the house look very eerie and threatening, as if the very scene itself were trying to break the viewer's sanity. The house itself is appears beckon the viewer to come forth into its torturous interior.

Well done! I'm really impressed by this neat piece of art.

It was meant to look more twisty than it ended up, I think. :) I'm glad you liked it though!

Hmmm... I am getting a distinct 'House on the Borderland' (William Hope Hodgson) vibe from this. Am I right?

Love Fox XXX

Sorry dear :) (see below!) But maybe that's something I should look into? :)

Oh, that's a great book! So hard to find a modern edition though... The one I have is an awful 70s paperback which bizarrely has a giant corn of cob lying in a desert on the front, with American farm buildings in the background, the clearest case of a books cover not representing the contents!

strangely enough that is exactly the same edition as I have. It also has H P Lovecraft's name prominently displayed on the top :P

Oh goodness! Yes! That's the only reason I bought it at the time, in an Oxfam bookstore in Oxford... At the time I hadn't heard of Hodgson before (criminal ignorance) but I loved HPL so I thought "Hey, it's a quid, I'll give it a go"... There is literally not a square inch of the cover which does /not/ quote HPL's "Supernatural Horror In Literature"! =D

were you stoned when you drew this?

No. :)

Good old 7th Guest! That was the first CD-ROM I ever played... Stirred up memories, I couldn't even get past the cake puzzle (I was a kid, I suppose) Damn green graveyard cake! I just watched my family play it, we couldn't get much further than 2/3 of the way through, even pooling our negligible intellects... Great pic!

I was pretty young too - but I remember getting through quite a bit of it, legitimately no less. I think I got up to and about the microscope puzzle and then something stopped me. And I'll never be able to fotget how to play that little piano bit ever.

Man! This is brilliant!
It reminds me SSSooo much of the game "the 7th guest"
AAhhhh Stauff and his toys...

Yusssss. So very favourite. I think it got me more than anything into computer games. :) I should probably do a less derivative trilobyte software homage some time..

I love when people make houses and seaviews! Well done!^^

This is so not something I can take full credit for though, it's just redrawn and coloured largely to correspond to some old box art :) But it is something I needs to practice more seriously sometime!