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  • The Chapel:
    • One portrait playfully imitates Arcimboldo's particular style.
    • Another shows a girl with a earring, with too wide a smile.
    • A marionette, with strings, is holding a stoat in her arms. This picture is based on Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine.
  • Eleanor's Painting Room:
  • The Library:
    • "The Black Hair" and "Hoichi the Earless". These are two titles from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, a book that features several "strange stories" collected and translated by Lafadio Hearn. They also feature in Kwaidan, a movie adaption.
    • "The Mask" by Robert W. Chambers. The story is part of the short story collection The King in Yellow. Several of the short stories mention The King in Yellow, a play which induces despair and madness in those who read it.
    • The personal diary of Charles Joseph Carter. He was a famous American stage magician in real life, also called Carter the Great. He supposedly held many shows in his mansion's basement in San Francisco, the place rife with occult references.
    • An unnamed Balzac.
    • Unpublished, hand-written notes by Leonardo da Vinci.
    • Documents about the Riemann hypothesis; see Mathematics.
    • A signed copy of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
    • "The History of Cardenio", as a hand-written book - a lost play attributed to William Shakespeare.
  • The Basement:
    • A triptych depicting scenes from the tale "The Story of Aoyagi", another story from Hearn's book.
    • "The Killer Seven", a book illustrated in "an unusual art style".
  • The Guest Rooms:
  • The Secret Ending
    Clay Rockridge: It goes to show you never can tell!
    Trinity Carrington: Is that a trophy? I want to win a trophy!

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