Haunted house

The classic haunted house look is borrowed from Second Empire architecture, a style popular across Europe and North America in the mid-1800s, with steep mansard roofs, towers and tall narrow windows. Illustrators and film-makers have leaned on those shapes for decades, which is why a mansard roof and a tower read as spooky before anything else in the picture does. Coloring page of a three-storey haunted house with pointed roofs, arched windows, crooked shutters, a porch and a heavy front door.

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