This gothic soundscape
contains haunting melodies, eerie voices, Latin chants, and foreboding
orchestrations to create a perfect dark and moody atmosphere.
Nox Arcana invites listeners to embark on a musical journey throughout
a legendary haunted mansion with a dark and sinister history...
Darklore Manor, a place where creatures of the night lurk in
shadows and ghostly sounds echo through its unhallowed halls.
The concept of the album, which
is based on the tales of a real haunted Victorian mansion near
Salem, Mass., centers around the mysterious deaths of its original
owners, the Darklore family, the curse that yet lingers there
among the ruins, and the later disappearance of three teenagers
who set out to hold a séance in the house on Halloween
night several years ago. The story itself is somewhere between
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward,"
with an atmosphere like Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting
of Hill House."
This real-life ghost story, along
with the ominous music, has all the elements of a classic horror
film—an
old mansion with a dark history, a cursed bloodline, tales of
black magic, murder, and vengeful ghosts.
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