you're in a haunted victorian mansion | a playlist

[alex_mikwue]

pov: you are walking through the corridors of an ancient castle, when suddenly the sounds of piano playing come from the hall. You decide to look there and see a beautiful young man, he notices you and invites you to dance. You agree. However, during the dance, you are too carried away by the young man that you do not notice that the music is playing by itself, as if it is part of this place.

[now_where]

I listened to it at 3am during a big storm while reading old books i found in my grandparents basement. Best insomnia i ever had in my life

[suchnothing]

I love how many of these songs come from movies featuring spooky large houses 😭 totally amazing

[caidalee]

No matter where or in what situation, that piece from Beauty and the Beast will never fail to enchant me and make me smile.

[moon_girl]

Timecodes for those who needヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ

00:00 Edith‘s theme
02:03 Prologue from ”Beauty and the Beast“
04:27 Victor‘s piano solo from “Corpse Bride”
07:46 Melting Waltz from ”Penny Dreadful“
11:08 Lullaby Variation
12:48 Once upon a December
17:02 Perfectly Splendid from ”The Haunting of Bly Manor“
19:04 24 Préludes, Op.28: No.4 in E Minor
21:51 A Heart Made of Yarn by Franz Gordon
25:16 Reflections by Toshifumi Hinata
27:26 Mariage d’Amour by Paule de Senneville

[kate]

"This mansion, it's so beautiful. I could feel the old furniture all around this place. It's sad that people left all of this to rot. Simply dissaper" I thought to myself as I was walking down the stairs to leave.
I was looking around the main hall, admiring it's beuty, when I noticed a figure standing next to a door that lead to the kitchen, I think. I immidiately went to apologize to them, that I went into their home without their permission and I simply didn't know anyone lived here. It was weird tho. There were no signs of life ever since I came here few hours ago.
As I was about to leave the figure desperately screamed "NO, DONT GO." I flinched, then turned around and realized that it was not just a figure, but a ghost.











And that's how it all began...

[gargaritaladybug]

Why does this music sound more romantic to me, than spooky ?! I must be a freak, but I love it!!!🤯

[sandraproverbs]

The falling rain and thunder takes this play list to another level where it belongs!

[sisigpapi]

Victor's piano solo and duet with Emily goes so well with all this

[femininequeer]

This helped me write my horror short story tonight! Thank you!!

[stacydsc]

Victor’s solo, Once upon a December… this playlist is literally one of my favorites. Thank you for this!

[theflyingdoom]

Dear Mellinda,

You created a playlist that represents perfection, made for late night studies, dreaming, relaxing and writing a spooky old story with a slow burn so beautiful you would be called a prodigy, even if you do not even know how to write a story properly.
Madam, this is a work of art, and I congratulate you and wish you a long, aesthetic, adventurous and romantic life.

Yours,
The Flying Doom

[idkmynametbh]

I hear whispers in the night, as I hurried down the hallways, depending on the candlelight. The moon’s shine reflected in the mirror as a figure stopped me in my tracks. They had a long white gown, hair falling down their shoulders, but yet no apparent face.
“You can’t run away…” they said.
“ it’s your time..”
“ it’s your time..”
“it’s your time..”
I pushed past them, running even faster as I felt spirits dancing with me. This was my mistake, coming back to my past was only going to haunt me. I hear a door slam, as I turn around to see a mirror.
Me.
I was normal. Burned out candle in my hand, smoke swirling around me, with my corset and curly brown hair. But there was only one difference.
I had no face.
I collapsed to the floor, crying, realizing what was happening. It was my turn, and my ancestors long ago made sure of it.
I felt myself slowly disappear, the rain falling outside the last thing I would ever hear.
Welp. This was my time, I guess. At least I would do it here, in a fancy mansion. That’s a cool way to leave.
I promised myself to haunt this area once again, as I made my last breath, as the other spirits waited for me to dance with them.

[krishasethy]

Here's a story I wrote inspired by this music:

Who are you?

I walk through the corridors of the ancient castle walls admiring the beauty it beholds. After my friends left me here. I'm all alone with no one or so I thought...

My friends and I all came to this place thinking it would be fun. This castle is known to be haunted in our town, so we went to go check it out, but it was a mistake because I'm here all alone all because of some stupid dare. I was dared to open the lock of this door that was said to have deadly spirits in it and go inside for 5 minutes, and I thought I would look daring or something stupid like that. So, I did, and the ceiling fell, and walls caved in, and my “friends” all ran out and never came back leaving me behind, I didn’t bring my phone with my for some reason and all the doors are locked along with the windows. I managed to find a way out, but I am still stuck in the castle on my own...

So here I am walking through this beautiful, but terrifying castle. l walk slowly down a grand black marble staircase and here a faint sound, the sound of a piano? I rush downstairs to hear it getting louder and louder. It was beautiful and yet I was here shaking in fear. And tears suddenly fell out my eyes, who else could possibly be here!? I take peak the room my knees and hands trembling in fear. What sits before me is a beautiful young man with dark silky hair and green eyes, I feel confused as to why he’s here. He notices me and invites me to dance. I don’t know why but for some reason I felt like I was hypnotized. I agree. However, during the dance I got too carried away by the young man that I didn’t notice that the music is playing by itself, as if it is part of the place, I pull away from him and look at the piano's keys jumping up in down on they’re own I immediately turn back, only to see the that the young man is no longer there. I stand there in shock as the piano starts to get louder and louder and then silence erupts. Who was that just now? And why was I dancing with him? Where did he go? As the thoughts circle around my head the lights go out, and I hear voices and whispers all around me. I look out the door in fear to see a tall dark shadow, it walks towards me I frantically take lots of steps back, eventually I get cornered my voice trembles “Please! Don’t hurt me!” It comes closer and gives me a hand? The lights flicker on, and I see that it’s the same man from before. “Who are you, and why are you here?” I say relieved. He replies in a cool and collected manner “I'm here to help, you don’t have to worry anymore I'll get you out of here. Ok?” Something in my gut told me that this was the only way I could get out of here from I take his hand follow him. He takes me to a huge door not like any door I had ever seen before. It was huge the door opened on its own, he whispers to me “Please don’t worry about, me I belong here.” and he pushed me out and the door slammed hard behind me. I looked behind me to see that he had disappeared. I panicked and banged on the door hard, shouting. And that’s when I turned around to see my parents and the police behind me, I tried to tell them he was in there and explained everything, the police immediately broke the doors down and searched for him. 2 hours later they said no one was in the castle. My parents were worried sick, and I explained everything to them about how I was in there. It has been 2 years and I still wonder if I'll ever see him again. Some people say you can still hear the tune of a faint piano from the outside...

[ivyactstudios]

I wander down the halls in the midnight shade, like under the shadow of the moon, I walk. My feet are tipping lightly on the carpeted corridors, I follow the tones of the old piano with the curiousness of a child, the excitement of my younger self and the enchantment of a world I thought was lost inside my head...
The lights are flickering, as if they're speaking to me, or perhaps leading way to the magic that was happening downstairs.
I pass the old portrait of my lover, my actor, my love. The love of my life, had he not left me for the afterlife those three, painful months ago...
I reach the staircase, the wide and gracious staircase, and tread lightly on its first step. Listening carefully to the music, wishing that it won't stop. Please don't stop! I want to see, I want to see...
I am not scared, for some reason I know that what, or who, I am abot to encounter sitting by the piano, will not be a fearful thing. It will be someone I have been waiting for, why I have this peculiar sensation I do not know, I just feel it so strong. It's in the air! In the dust, flying in the air like tiny fairies in search for a great mystery, hidden, somewhere in these halls... It is everywhere, it's in me and it is in the tones of the piano, meeting my heart in a strange, romantic and graceful rendezvous...
I reach the bottom of the stairs, the music becomes louder, I am getting closer to my destiny. It's...
I gasp! There he is! The actor. My beloved, sitting peacefully by the piano in the ballroom, lights flickering on the candelabra situated on the piano's dark, ebenholtz surface. Tears escape the crystal balls of my eyes and slide down my face, like glimmering stars falling in a sea of wonder. And as he turns around, facing me, my world becomes a dimension of another kind. Here, I stop to exist, and start to live again.
He walks up to me, carefully, careful not to frighten me. But I am far from frightened. I am enamored, I am in the midst of a storm of sensations, much too strange to my being to even be fathomable. My heart beats, and feels as if it's flying, like that feeling when you recieve that outmost thoughtful gift on Christmas Day!
I am in love anew, not that I ever stopped loving him, but my love for the one I thought I'd lost just metamorphosed into a million little butterflies, dazzling with the ray of love.
And so he embraces me.
And so he kisses me.
And so we dance together.
And so we descend into a different world, a different realm, a different dimension.
And so, he takes me home with him, again...
Forever...
Always, and forever... <3

[sam-zryj]

This playlist feels surreal, immediately downloaded it

[lilywalden]

when i’m listening to this i want to go into my closet, close the door, shut my eyes, and imagine i’m in another world.

[chi-weihsieh]

I feel it deeply that it defines "haunted" as the aspiration of open, freedom and reunion. And such aspiration is going with all ghost wandering in the live world.

[sophierose]

The perfect playlist doesn't exi----

Thank you so much for making this, it's literally perfect!

[V.R.CoryArt]

This is awesome! Spooky, regal and thoughtful. Being an upper class gentleman smoking in a gothic manor is much more interesting than overcoming adhd long enough to deal with this mess in my room...