How to Make Your House Scary
You begin in the right place. It might sound nice to have a graveyard, but it's not always useful. There aren't many cemeteries for sale in the area. I looked into it. It's easier to rule out all kinds of graveyards. Think about the words "reuse, reclaim, recycle" instead. Do you know of any hospitals that have been closed down? What about a funeral home that has a house connected to it? Find a place that is far away and where the shadows on the ground are never quite still if your search doesn't turn up anything.
Dirt is the first step in making a good base. Now is the time to go to a graveyard. Also, that will help with the next part. Bone. Also, keep any souvenirs you find along the way. Wedding rings are even better than lockets. Get all of those lost little moments and take them with you. Each one has a link to the past that pulls memories along like a fish on a hook.
Only use wood that has been used before. Find trees that have been scarred by lightning or fires. But Promise Trees has the best wood. The ones whose names are scratched into the bark, sometimes in the shape of hearts and other times as lines. Graveyard mementos connect your home to the past, but dead Promise Tree wood connects you to the future.
What might have been or what is still to come. Put your hand on the tree before you cut it down. Its warm skin will feel good against your palm. Use your finger to trace the names in the little valleys that friends and lovers cut out with pocketknives. There are lots of hopes for tomorrow written on the wood. As soon as you know that, you can kill it and gather its meat.
Make your house's hallways and doors long and narrow. Make the windows not in the middle. The floor should make noise. The steps should too. Dig a cave or basement and put the stolen yesterdays that you stole from graves in it. add an attic on top of everything else. The sun comes in through a high window and hits a frame of wooden beams, making the light bend.
Finally, you should think about her a lot if you want to build a scary house. She did everything. The one you dropped. Bring the images out of the back of your mind's closet. It's not just the nice times, like summer afternoons and walks through the trees behind your old house. Don't forget the fights, the hard days, or the quiet mornings. Remember her just the way she was, the way you both were. Tell the truth.
Also, be mean to yourself.
Remember how she looked the last time you saw her: she was wrapped in white, full of tubes, and the room smelled like bleach.
Thin.
When she was that thin, you couldn't believe she didn't fall through the floor, the bed or the window. Also, remember how blue her eyes were, like butterfly wings. Remember how they made you remember the good times?
Get in touch with ghosts, build them a house, and find the links between today and tomorrow.
That's how you creep into a house.
