Just in time for Hallowe'en, I tumble through a hidden trapdoor into gruesome website called DiedInHouse.com
Morbid and paranoid tenants are invited to submit their home addresses to discover whether or not a previous tenant expired on the premises.
Beside satisfying eldritch curiosity, another benefit of the website I thought of was purely economical.
If your house comes up as "corpse positive," just print out the result and display it in your window. Then you won't need to decorate with expensive pumpkins, plastic gravestones, polyester spooks on sticks and other commercially produced Hallowe'en tat.
Visiting children on their Trick or Treat errands will surely be more impressed by proof of actual death rather than tacky, store-bought representations of such.
After all, real, scraped-off-the-mattress American gothic beats mass-produced zombies and a neon skeleton made in China every time.
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