You get the gist of the song now?

[greygirlbeast]

Continuing my research on Dogtown Commons, a Cape Ann, MA ghost town which figures prominently in Daughter of Hounds. I was especially taken with this photo:



My head is so filled with Dogtown, with feral beasts, cosmic misdirections, angry old women with terrible secrets and desires, the "past" and the present, crumbling cellar walls...

Now I've got a mind full of wicked designs
I've got a non-stop hole in my head—imagination
I'm in a building that has two thousand floors, and when they all fall down
I think you know it's you they're fallin' for
I can't forget I am a sole architect
I built the shadows here
I built the growlin' voice I fear
You add it up, but to do better than that
You've got to follow me...

And so forth.

Comments

[loupgarouone.livejournal.com]

The picture is awesome. Oh, I like the lyrics too.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like the lyrics too.

Well, they're not mine, of course.

[loupgarouone.livejournal.com]

La Grise Bête a écrit:

"Well, they're not mine, of course."

Well, bloody fuck, break my heart! I was hoping those were yours.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Well, bloody fuck, break my heart! I was hoping those were yours.

Sorry. They're Poe's, from "Hey Pretty" on Haunted.

I wish they were mine.

[listeningowl.livejournal.com]

yep, you are making me too, too curious as well.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

yep, you are making me too, too curious as well.

Cool.

It's contagious.

[iliadawry.livejournal.com]

While I number you and one other as my favorite living authors, House of Leaves got into my head (and, I think, into my veins) as no other book has, before or since. Johnny is still a figure in my nightmares. Haunted has been almost consistently on heavy rotation since it came out, and that is my favorite song.

Has anyone pointed you to Dionaea House (http://www.dionaea-house.com/)?

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Has anyone pointed you to Dionaea House?

Nope. I was entirely unaware of it. Thanks. It looks very interesting.

I maintain that House of Leaves is the single most important work of dark fantasy from the last ten years.

[iliadawry.livejournal.com]

It's an assertion I can get behind, really.

[sadiane.livejournal.com]

As someone who has been reading "scary" books since about the age of 10, House of Leaves remains the one novel that has kept me up at night after I finished reading, and still occasionaly gives me nightmares to this day.

This is, of course, a good thing.

Excited about DOH

[acorn-woobie.livejournal.com]

I recently finished reading (and loving) The Dry Salvages, and I can't wait for Daughter of Hounds. My boyfriend and I listen to Poe's Haunted together, and get all emotional over the stuff about her father.
I LOVE that picture you posted. There's a big headstone in a local cemetery that just says "STRANGE."
*T*