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Originally posted by ItsAlive75
Ooh, I do. That's all that matters.
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Well, it sorta helps that I just read Salem's Lot (again), and there's that whole deal with the Marsten House...
Really, it's a child contemplating a luminous dark house. Is it his fears or an actual haunted house? Does the house represent the subconscious mind of the boy? The unknown? Yet the boy is surrounded by this bubble of light... So is the light a protective barrier, which makes me think that the house is part of his subconscious or his own fears. The light separates the boy from the house, protecting him, giving him the opportunity to think about the house, to understand it before actually venturing into its unknown depths.
I just like it for those unanswered questions.
It brings to mind this painting I once saw online. I don't know if I got the link here when I first joined or if it was at some other message forum that I frequented. I honestly can't remember the details, except that it was supposed to be haunted. It was a picture of a little boy and a doll? His sister? A toy clown? (It's always a clown isn't it?) There was something about looking at the painting... I don't really remember. I just remember that it was sold to someone at a yard sale/auction, and they were really freaked out by it.