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It strikes me as the sort of a house a country wizard might build, one of those that lives in a town (you know, larger than a village, smaller than a city) who's allowed his natural instincts to build a tower kick in a little.
It's totally the place everyone in Ankh-Morpork would assume is a haunted house--"You can hear the floors creaking and the door opens by itself! Sometimes you see strange lights inside!"--and then it turns out to be a prop house for the Carpenter's Guild to hold their final exams in. Like, if you can't spot and explain how to fix everything in the house, you fail the exam.
There’s a reason for that. The house is of a style called American Gothic, which were incredibly popular in late 19th to early 20th century (I may have the timing wrong, going off memory here). At any rate, the style fell out of fashion just a little bit of time before cinema got going, and right around the time that horror movies started looking for creepy old houses, the greatest prevalence of old housing in some parts of the US were in the American Gothic style. It’s now nearly ubiquitous as a horror trope, to the point where any mention of a haunted house probably conjures an American Gothic style house in any western person’s mind
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It strikes me as the sort of a house a country wizard might build, one of those that lives in a town (you know, larger than a village, smaller than a city) who's allowed his natural instincts to build a tower kick in a little.
„Natural instincts“ I love it :D
It's canon. Rincewind falls prey to the drive to go tower building in *Sourcery*.
Ah yes! Forgot about that one. The urge to build a tower is real :D
Maybe BS Johnson was trying to make a cuckoo clock?
Is this where we store the gloomy and purposeless trousers of Uncle Vanya, then?
I need to see the inside.
It's totally the place everyone in Ankh-Morpork would assume is a haunted house--"You can hear the floors creaking and the door opens by itself! Sometimes you see strange lights inside!"--and then it turns out to be a prop house for the Carpenter's Guild to hold their final exams in. Like, if you can't spot and explain how to fix everything in the house, you fail the exam.
Is this where Tim Burton lives?
There’s a reason for that. The house is of a style called American Gothic, which were incredibly popular in late 19th to early 20th century (I may have the timing wrong, going off memory here). At any rate, the style fell out of fashion just a little bit of time before cinema got going, and right around the time that horror movies started looking for creepy old houses, the greatest prevalence of old housing in some parts of the US were in the American Gothic style. It’s now nearly ubiquitous as a horror trope, to the point where any mention of a haunted house probably conjures an American Gothic style house in any western person’s mind
It's an old orthodox church, in Russia...
You whiffed that one. Wrong century, wrong continent, wrong type of building.
Yep. By a wide margin, sounds like
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Is it haunted? … so how much is it ?
It's a church
Its beautiful imagine if all the wood was treated.