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11	[[quoteright:330:[[Film/TalesOfTerror https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/girl_in_dusty_manor.jpg]]]]
12	[[caption-width-right:330:Aren't you glad you [[GorgeousPeriodDress dressed]] [[PrettyInMink up]] to visit?]]
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14	->''"Certainly, he didn't expect to come home and find a clear inch of dust."''
15	-->-- '''Albus Dumbledore''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''
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17	It's a place so dusty, the cobwebs are basically measured in depth. If there aren't cobwebs, everything has a layer of gray from all the dust anyway.
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19	Heck, the only thing keeping dust from getting kicked up, everywhere someone walks around, is [[RuleOfPerception that it would be difficult to film]] (and be very uncomfortable for the cast and crew).
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21	On the gritty end of SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty. One likely site for a BatScare.
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23	A SubTrope of SceneryGorn.
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25	Compare CobwebJungle, CobwebOfDisuse, TrashOfTheTitans.
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27	!!Examples:
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31	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
32	* This is the first obvious sign that something's gone weird with the world in the Second ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'' NonSerialMovie: Onsen Mark's house is absolutely covered from floor to ceiling, wall to wall with a layer of dust and mold.
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35	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
36	* ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'': And poor old Sophie has to clean up the whole thing!
37	* ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'': A variation, when Kiki rents an apartment from a baker. She finds the entire apartment extremely dusty, however, after further inspection, the apartment is caked (no pun intended) in ''flour'' rather than dust.
38	* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': Upon arriving at the dwarfs' cottage, Snow White finds the place a complete mess, complete with dust and cobwebs everywhere, so she and her animal friends decide to clean the place to surprise them when they get back.
39	-->'''Doc:''' Why-Why, the whole place is ''clean!''
40	-->'''Grumpy:''' There's dirty work afoot!
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44	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
45	* ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' - standard decor for a haunted house, but Barbara, still getting used to being a ghost, is frustrated that she can't clean the place with the vacuum being inaccessible. When Adam suggests their being alone in the house may be Heaven, she mutters "Heaven wouldn't have all this dust!"
46	* Done for laughs in ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967''. The daughter of Mata Hari is infiltrating her mom's NebulousEvilOrganisation, and is shown her mom's old room by a henchman who states "It's just the way she left it". The room is covered in dust and cobwebs, exactly as it would be after decades of neglect.
47	* ''Film/{{Dagon}}'' has a staffed hotel that is at the same time coated in dust and cobwebs.
48	* Every time Draco Malfoy pulls the sheet covering the Vanishing Cabinet in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', ''another'' inch or so of dust has accumulated on it, far more than should have been possible since he has been continuously working with it.
49	* Not Creator/RogerCorman, but Creator/VincentPrice: ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959''. Also lampshaded, as Frederick Loren's wife asks him why he couldn't have had the haunted house he's rented for the party cleaned. [[DeadpanSnarker Frederick]] responds "Atmosphere, darling. You know how ghosts are, they never tidy up."
50	* This trope shows up a lot in the Creator/RogerCorman Poe pictures; in the comedy adaptation of ''Film/{{The Raven\|1963}}'', Creator/PeterLorre improvised the quip "Tough place to keep clean, huh?" as he and Creator/VincentPrice walk through an extensive and overly-cobwebbed room.
51	* Picture comes from the first act of the Creator/RogerCorman anthology film ''Film/TalesOfTerror'', where a girl visits the home of her father, who let most of the place get this way after his wife died.
52	* In ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', Talbot Hall is certainly untidy to say the least.
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55	[[folder:Literature]]
56	* In ''Literature/AmeliaBedelia'', the titular [[TheDitz maid]] added dust to a living room. Her rationale: To ''remove'' dust is to "un-dust;" therefore, to "dust" is to ''add'' dust. Her main character flaw was that she was LiteralMinded, and didn't quite understand figures of speech.
57	* ''The Dark Crusader'' by Creator/AlistairMaclean starts thus: ''A small dusty man in a small dusty room. That's how I always thought of him, just a small dusty man in a small dusty room.'' The 'dusty man' is the protagonist's [[TheSpymaster boss in British Intelligence]].
58	* Appears all the time in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', notably in the old wing of castle Dracula and in his purchased mansion.
59	* Miss Havisham's abandoned wedding feast in ''Literature/GreatExpectations''.
60	* 12 Grimmauld Place, in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' qualifies.
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63	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
64	* The mansion of ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''.
65	* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' - a Creator/CharlesDickens enthusiast has his manor house themed to the author's works, down to a recreation of Miss Havisham's dusty, cobwebbed wedding feast room.
66	* In ''Series/BlackBooks'' the Cleaner highlights this as one of the worst features of the bookshop. While we can't see it, he does the traditional demonstration of wearing a white glove, running it along a surface, and showing how much dust it's collected. The surface in this example was the ''air''.
67	* ''Series/TheMunsters'': "Dusting" actually means spreading ''more'' dust around.
68	* Creator/QuentinCrisp lived in a notoriously unkempt home. In the TV drama based on his autobiography, he remarked that "the dust doesn't get any worse after a year". [[note]]The extended quote from his autobiography, ''The Naked Civil Servant'', is “There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”[[/note]]
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71	[[folder:Podcasts]]
72	* Podcast/DiceFunk: Stoneroot is this trope scaled up to an entire city. Anne covers herself in dust just to fit in.
73	* In ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' episode "Vampire Killer" the eponymous Trever Herbert describes the house of Sylvia [=McDonald=], the first vampire he killed (or so he says), as covered in dust and mould except for a narrow strip along the floor where she walks as if she has lived there for years but done absolutely nothing except walk through the place.
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76	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
77	* The Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom looked to have been built inside of a cave and probably could have used a good dusting.
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80	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
81	* ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons AD&D]]'' included a spell that made a house look this way, creating an illusion that it had been long abandoned.
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84	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
85	* Parts of ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' in the Ride/DisneyThemeParks are covered in dust and cobwebs. The cast members use a machine similar to a fertilizer spreader to spray fake cobwebs around just to keep it optimally dingy.
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88	[[folder:Video Games]]
89	* The Dusty Dungeon Level (DDL) from ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery'' and the level below it, Very Dusty Dungeon Level (VDDL). They are pretty much TakeOurWordForIt though, as the graphics are too simple to actually show the setting.
90	* Pipit's house in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' is so dusty that Pipit's mother actually pays Link to clean it with his Gust Bellows, a futuristic device resembling a leaf-blower. [[WhatTheHellHero And then you learn where Pipit's patrol money winds up...]]
91	* The mansion of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', while not as smothering with dust as most examples, has enough that Luigi kicks up a trail of it wherever he goes, and most vacuumed objects give a puff of dust if they don't have any items within. Played a touch straighter in one basement room with large dust piles that have to be vacuumed up to proceed.
92	* One of the areas in ''VideoGame/{{Seiklus}}'' is a corridor covered in colossal amounts of ash that, thanks to wind blowing there, was confused with arctic area by ''many''.
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95	[[folder:Western Animation]]
96	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Pinkie Apple Pie", Goldie Delicious's house is extremely messy, including plenty of dust and cobwebs. What looks like one of Goldie's [[CrazyCatLady many, many cats]] turns out to be a pile of dust inexplicably shaped like a cat.
97	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': This has happened to the Krusty Krab on a few occasions to emphasize the drought of customers they sometimes get. Sometimes to the point where Mr. Krabs has a spider dangling from the ''roof of his mouth.''
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