Haunted Houseful is an Alfred Hitchcock collection of stories published in 1961. Fred Banbery (1913-1999) created these very nice illustrations. From what I can gather, the illustrations don’t match the stories especially well, but they would work very well as creative writing inspo. (For instance: Write Your Own Urban Legend.)
OTHER ATMOSPHERIC USE OF BLUE AND BLACK
NACHTMERRIE OVER NEDERLAND (1945) L.J. Jordaan Jeroen HennemanDas Komitee (1958) Walter Schnackenberg (1965)Arthur Saron Sarnoff (American, 1912–2000) Moonlit StrollWoman’s Realm, No.113, Vol.5, June 4, 1960 art by Peter GibsonIllustration by Cheri Herouard For La Vie Parisienne 1924Mead Schaeffer (1898-1980) 1932cover for Fémina Noël, Décembre 1936 by Pierre MourgueIn the Dymkovskaya Slobada written by Vladimir Krupin, illustrated by Aleksander Zemsha 1989Cover design and illustration by Georgette & Benjamin Harris, 1944Song for a Little House, by Christopher Morley, Illustrated by Barbara Cooney, 1959Franz Stassen made four portfolios of illustrations for Wagner’s Ring operasOne Dark Night by Edna Mitchell Preston, illustrated by Kurt Werth (1969)Music Round the Town edited by Max T. Krone, Irving Wolfe, Beatrice Perham Krone & Margaret Fullerton, illustrated by Val Samuelson (1963)Space Witch written and illustrated by Don Freeman (1959)
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project: