| abstract | - The Lovecraft Room is in the basement of Poe Cottage, at least until the middle of the Fall 2006 term, when the door began shifting between Poe and Hawthorne Cottage. Presumably it eventually stabilizes in Hawthorne, but that isn't certain. Sara entered, finding an almost regular small dorm room with red carpet and grey concrete walls. Unlike regular dorm rooms, the walls were painted with strange red hieroglyphs that seemed to shift oddly under her aura vision. The inside had changed. The writhing runes had shrunk and multiplied during Sara’s absence, barely noticeable unless you knew what to look for. The old room was still there, but the wallpaper was peeling off to reveal ancient stonework of inhuman origin. The dark blocks were the size of minivans, though achingly familiar in design. Several doors had sprouted of their own accord, leading to god-knows-where or god-knows-what. Sara hoped it was only the former. The room had also enlarged itself again, becoming practically cavernous. Sara looked again. Other things had changed aside from the room. The furniture, for instance. Her bed was now a four-poster double bed that looked to be carved from obsidian, covered in blood-red silk. The chairs, dining table and desk all matched the décor. The once-sparse carpet was soft and blood-red matching the covers, obviously. All in all, it looked like Count Dracula’s interior designer had been given licence to go crazy with her living space.
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