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House Horror;
1. A fiction trope in which a house, or a building which can otherwise constitute that which makes a home, is made to be perceived as a living thing; an organism.Β
2. A horror trope in which the haunting of a structure is not the organisms 'haunting' or still currently living in the structure, but the structure itself.
3. A trope in which the structure, personified, is an adversary to the protagonist of a story, whether it is a place they're living or not. (Ex. "The room hates you. Isn't that enough to want to leave?")
ESSAYS ON THE TOPIC;Β
Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted HouseΒ by Jacob Geller
The Haunted Worlds of A Mysterious Developer...Β by Sagan Hawkes (briefly mentioned)
VIDEO GAMES;
CONTROL (Remedy Entertainment)
ANATOMY (kittyhorrorshow, indie developer)
BOOKS;
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Bible (if you can believe it lol, specifically Leviticus)
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
FILM;Β
1408 (2007)
The Haunting of Hill House (1963)
The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
ARTISTS;
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778)
Adriana VarejΓ£o (1964 - present)
Will be updated as I find more, this is one of my fav interests <33
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Ina
Casita from Encanto. lol no horror ofc, but it's evil counterpart would be that house from The Haunted House animation movie.
Person dies and becomes a vengeful spirit and then haunts the whole structure by becoming it.
I guess it's one of those tropes you wrote.
Also, the personification of objects is leaning more on the psychological horror, isn't it? Like, the real enemy is the character's subconcious being portrayed in physical way through things like certain places, buildings and even certain objects.
Encanto is a good point! I'll add it :)
what separates The Haunted House actually is the fact that a person ends up becoming the structure I'd argue ! in all of these, part of the horror is the fact that the structure itself is a living thing completely unrelated from a person & it's origin is basically unknown. A person haunting the house is a classic ghost trope, which is why I haven't included that one actually- I thought abt it tho!
it is psychological horror yeah I agree! but I think structures/buildings and objects are maybe two different degrees of horror because they kind of deal with different types of terrifying if that makes sense??
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What I meant is that when you give certain qualities to a room it's the same with an object. Not even talking about anamalous objects, just that this trope is similar in either way.
Ex: The walls heard your cries and they mocked you.
and
You looked at the mirror and it looked back at you.
These two examples are all connected by the character's psyche. I love doing this in literature because it allows me to describe the character's attributes or what they are feeling without directly addressing them.
In horror, it's even better, especially when it's about someone going crazy. :V
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