While growing up in a reportedly haunted civil war house in Virginia, Courtney Conk read H. P. Lovecraft as a young girl. His tales blossomed in her imagination for many years, until inspiring her to create these terrifying and haunting images.

These photographs have not been digitally manipulated or altered in any way, only minor color corrections were performed. This is a visual diary of the creatures Courtney found late at night one winter in the basement of her South Minneapolis home.