haunted
You learn a few things fast when you share a home with ghosts. Firstly, just because the lights aren’t on DOES NOT mean that no one is home. Secondly, It makes more sense to run to your destinations because you can be 99% sure that something is in fact chasing you. Thirdly, avoid closets, stairs, basements and attics unless it’s daytime and you’re feeling especially brave. Lastly, NEVER EVER sleep with the lights completely off.
I grew up in a 1784 colonial farmhouse with about 14 rooms and creak- ing floorboards. It had felt like a castle the first time I walked through the front door at five years old. The house was haunted. It was the kind of place that would shake and moan as if the whole building was suffering from arthritis and even when you were alone it felt like someone or something was watching you. It was a place filled with unsettling magic.
The house burnt down in 2007 but I have remained haunted by the ideas, curiosities, and questions it left in me and have developed a fascination with colorful myths, monsters, demons, and nearly all folklore dealing with the things that go ......bump, in the night.
I draw to tell people stories. This one happens to be about me.
“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.” -Neil Gaiman, M is for Magic
“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we are opened, we’re red.” -Clive Barker, Books of Blood
“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.” -H.P. Lovecraft
