Anyone out there a Nox Arcana fan? I was listening to their “Gothic” album one day and got this idea. The manor mentioned in the album is Grimstone Manor, and the intro to the album inspired me to do some more spooky October art, this time with Miss Trixie Lulamoon.

Nox Arcana, Album “Gothic”, track, “Testament”, “The House Beyond the Graveyard”

Welcome to Grimstone Manor.

I hereby bequeath to you, my last surviving heir

My mansion and all the secrets it holds

You may still have distant recollections of your ancestral home.

But perhaps some things are best left buried in the past…

Your inheritance is not without condition, however.

Should you wish to claim all that is rightfully yours

You must stay here in this house, on this very night, alone

Where you shall remain locked inside from dusk until dawn

Only by facing your fears can you truly embrace that which dwells in the darkness

Perhaps you shall come to understand and embrace your true heritage as well…..

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The house beyond the graveyard

Is no place to stay the night

For once its ancient doors creak shut

There is no escape in sight

The old house looks deserted

Abandoned and forsaken

But every night as darkness falls

Its residents awaken

Shadows roam the cobwebbed halls

And whispers fill the rooms

And in the cold crypts far below

The dead rise from their tombs

So if you dare to venture there

Leave long before night falls

Lest you join the restless ghosts

That haunt its shadowed halls…

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