Entrance Hall

The Entrance Hall is a large room with peeling wallpaper, threadbare carpet, gas lamps, and a serpent-shaped, cobwebby candleabra. A staircase runs to the upper floors. There are a number of age-blackened portaits here, including a large one behind moth-eaten moldy curtains. This portrait is of Mrs. Black, and when disturbed it screeches and screams in a most horrible manner, cursing everyone around and waking the other portraits, who also begin screaming. Not surprisingly, everyone tiptoes and whispers in the hall. There is an umbrella stand in the hall made from a Troll leg.