#small town horror

[mother-lee]

cr. brendan burton (@burtoo)

#rural gothic #small town #lost places #americana #rural exploration #small town horror #rural aesthetic #deer #abandoned places #abandoned #midwest aesthetic #oddcore #rural living #rural scene #strangecore #original photographers #credits #midwest america #backwoods #lost in the woods #dark #regional gothic #small town america #photography #how it started vs how it's going #brendan burton photography

[h0rifix]

"𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔰𝔢 𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔶 𝔟𝔬𝔡𝔶

𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔪𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔦 𝔲𝔰𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢."

- 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐧. (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐). 'family tree’

#ethel cain #preachers daughter #gothic blog #gothic horror #horror blog #southern goth aesthetic #southern gothic #ethel cain core #southern horror #midwest gothic #midwest #western gothic #small town gothic #small town horror #small town core #northern gothic #ethel cain lyrics #religious trauma

[helenewate]

to see what we’ve left behind

#helenewate #my photos #midwestern gothic #midwest gothic #midwestern emo #midwest #ohio #ohiocore #somewhere in ohio #regional gothic #small town core #small town horror #small town gothic #small town aesthetic #ruralcore #rural aesthetic #rural gothic #rural photography #rural america #americana #small town america #american gothic #farmcore #midwestcore #midwestern usa #tumblr photography #70s photography #midwest photography #vintage photography #photographers on tumblr

[mercury-and-scry]

I don't tend to post other people's work on this blog, but this calls for an exception,,, if you're a fan of analog horror, religious horror or small town horror, PLEASE check out St Mary Chapel on YouTube. It's been absolutely sending my brain through the ringer with even 5 episodes and like 4 community posts and I need people to watch it so when/if I break and make a two hour long iceberg video it makes sense to at least a handful of people.

#not my art #analog horror #religious horror #analog #small town horror #cw religion #cw horror #horror #YouTube #youtube series #st mary's chapel #youtube horror #catholiscism

[heartshapedcaskett]

35mm film capture from almost 5 years ago

#my photography #photography #film photography #35mm #35mm film #35mm color photography #35mm color film #graveyard photography #cemetery photography #graveyard #cemetery #taphophilia #rural exploration #rural #rural south #southern gothic #American gothic #gothic americana #small town horror #small town usa #rural USA #rural places #gothic #morute #coffinwood #nostalgia #nostalgiacore #memento mori #goth aesthetics #the South

[my-ceiling-is-tilted]

A ghost hunting crew for all the ages. The marshes are alight and dammit if these loveable goofs arent gonna get to the bottom of it

#not my ocs #but i do fancy myself a godfather of sorts #digital art #horror art #ttrpg #character art #ttrpg oc #ttrpg character #oc art #digital artist #character design #digital illustration #original character #original characters #rural horror #small town horror #periphery

[vampyangel]

need to live in a small town that's creepy and has a local diner that I can go to and get a strawberry milkshake and burger late at night whilst I read my book

#scenarios #creepy cute #ghostly whispers #ghostly rambles #mysterycore #horrorcore #small town aesthetic #small town horror #small town mystery

[springtimebat]

My Burial Plot (A Poem)

Living in a town as small as ours

Means that all you can expect from life 

Is a hasty burial hosted by the sea

You look forward to floating thoughtlessly

Slumber on a bed of dying coral wreaths

Pecked by underground fishes

Me? I want a sky casket

I wish to float upwards 

To space, shifting into that invisible light

Forming a fist in mid-air

I want to ghost around town

Punching you out of your skin in mid-July

As I soar around buildings

I want to peek through others 

I want to die like they do in pictures

Holden says he will die on a barb-wire fence

As the sky bruises over 

Plum purples, apricot oranges, and a cheese moon

Float in and out of our corpse cradle

His eyes will glaze over, crack under harsh light

Marbles stuck to bloated flesh

His life will go out then and refuse to reignite 

While mine will vanish to dark alleyways 

#poetry #my poem #creative writing #cryptidcore #weirdcore #oddcore #american gothic #southern gothic #small town gothic #small town horror #nature #my writing #childhood #nostalgia #I'm writing again

[mother-lee]

within each burning frame is a tale of its own

#rural gothic #small town horror #storytelling #tall tales #small town #shot #heat of the moment #rural aesthetic #midwest gothic #regional gothic #americana #film #rural exploration #american midwest #bloodstained #what happened here #burning frame #tale of its own #oddcore #dark #vintage vibes #small town america #summer gothic #heat of the day

[h0rifix]

"𝖎 𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝖆 𝖋𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗. 𝖎 𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝖆 𝖒𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗. 𝖎 𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝖘𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖔𝖑𝖉𝖊𝖗, 𝖜𝖎𝖘𝖊𝖗 𝖇𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖔 𝖈𝖗𝖞 𝖙𝖔. 𝖎 𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖐 𝖙𝖔 𝕲𝖔𝖉, 𝖇𝖚𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖐𝖞 𝖎𝖘 𝖊𝖒𝖕𝖙𝖞."

𝐒𝐲𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐡. (𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟐). ‘the unabridged journals of sylvia plath’.

#gothic blog #gothic horror #horror blog #southern goth aesthetic #ethel cain core #sylvia plath #ethel cain #western gothic #midwest gothic #midwest #ex religious #religious trauma #religious imagery #religion #religious themes #small town gothic #small town core #small town aesthetic #small town horror #gothic

[helenewate]

Roadkill

a little poem from the hauntings that i wrote today based off a cautionary tale i was always told as a kid. it’s meant to mimic the style of a nursery rhyme.

Two little boys,

cradled by leaves.

Two little brothers,

cowering beneath a tree.

Two boys dangling

in the road like bait.

Two brothers flattened

like flapjacks in ‘68.

Don’t veer into ditches

on the side of the road.

You never know who lies

where the tires should go.

Bits of brain,

fragments of bone.

Two little boys

who never came home.

—olivia garrett aka helene wate, the hauntings

#my words #my poetry #midwestern gothic #horror poetry #horror art #midwestern gothic art #midwestern #midwest #small town america #small town horror #rural gothic #poetry #poem #helenewate #helene’s poetry #helene’s hauntings

[industrialstate]

york 09/2022

#urban decay #liminality #urban gothic #small town gothic #small town horror #urban environment #urban exploration #suburban gothic #suburbia #35mm film #disposable camera #point and shoot #back roads #visual diary #emptiness #empty spaces #eerie #industrial decay #trespassing #hidden places #haunted places #urban loneliness #york #yorkshire #new topographics #film is not dead #point and click #35mm color film

[helenoftroydidnothingwrong]

i need some recs for stuff like Old Gods of Appalachia… like small town, southern/appalachian, eldritch horror type stuff…

#pls help me #books. movies. tv shows. podcasts #anything yall #old gods of appalachia #ogoa #appalachian gothic #appalachia #southern gothic #small town horror #horror #recommendations please

[my-ceiling-is-tilted]

The return of a spooky friend, just in time for Halloween >:)

Hope all my followers and mutuals are having a cozy night, bc this poor little scamp is absolutely not lol

#digital art #horror art #ttrpg #character art #ttrpg oc #ttrpg character #oc art #digital artist #character design #digital illustration #original character #original characters #rural horror #small town horror #periphery #happy halloween

[goregrindgal]

i find beauty in the grotesque and macabre

#southern gothic #camo #small town horror #taxidermy lover #emo #gothic americana #coney island baby