The Night Land

The Night Land

This just in:

Wait. You mean…?

;)

Besides:

…genius loci?

I was walking around, looking for Justice (whom I only found again much later on the internet, although I must have passed that corner a hundred times, always looking up in the wrong places)…

…when I came upon Nelson’s ship in a bottle…

…and then out of the stones it came for me.

Phantom Houses

A story from this book led me to a place in which two houses [...] exist but aren’t there.

They have clean windows and curtains, and truly look inhabited. But you can’t go in there. I bet the doors won’t open.

If you know where to look, you can see their backsides. They’re just empty shells, about 5 feet of lifeless concrete façade. The neighbouring houses reach steel girders across that void to support each other.
The story behind that? When the first tube was built, they still had to dig trenches along the whole length of the line. Those two houses were in the way and had to be demolished, but the posh residents didn’t want their street to be left so maimed – and got those mock houses put in place for the sake of appearance. The gap was never filled, since it served as a point where the steam-powered trains could vent coal exhaust. So, very white as seen from the street, very black from the back alley.

alternative story

I was crawling around on the floor, trying to make myself as small as possible, while the evil clouds were eating the interior.

carpet monsters

Of course there are others, like the two birds watching them from above, but my favourite monsters in this pattern are the two red-eyed ones looking at each other.

Taking over the world…!

Leaf Dragon in the snow

last knight.