Curios: Albrecht Manor

Curios: Albrecht Manor is an epistolary horror mystery experience. A haunting story told over a series of letters and ephemera. 

This is a digital edition of Curios: Albrecht Manor, for the physical edition, get it here.

Reality contains fractures, a series of anomalous events that defy explanation, with only remnants of their occurrences left behind. Letters, recordings, photos and reports are all that remains of these phenomena, housed within the Archive, a catalogue of the extraordinary and peculiar. Our first collection is calamitous events connected through the centuries: The Case of Albrecht Manor.

How old is your house? A question not so simply answered for Alex Dunn when unsettling sounds and shadows begin creeping through the house at night. A new house, far away from home, the only thing keeping Alex tethered to reality is the research into this home with mysterious providence and the letters sent to their lifelong friend Anne. Letters that for weeks have gone unanswered. Alex’s research never concluded, the last letters arriving on May 17th, 1993. Alex disappeared, presumed dead after a house fire that same day.

Alex's writing reveals just as much as the floorplans and photos included in their letters.

As a researcher for the Archive, read through Alex Dunn's letters and notes. Uncover the missing pieces of the mystery behind their rural Ontario home in 1993. Explore the connection between this house and the original, destroyed in a fire a hundred years before. Can you connect the clues and find the hidden patterns of this house's history?

Curios: Albrecht House contains 13 letters and postcards mailed from March 3rd to May 17th 1993 from Alex Dunn to Anne Wilson. Each letter details the events in Alex’s life in their new home as their house has them feeling increasingly untethered from reality. Letters will include documents, floorplans, newspaper clippings, and photos of the house through the centuries. 

What happened to Alex Dunn? Read the letters to try to solve the circumstances of Alex’s disappearance and those in the home before them.

Details: Curios: Albrecht Manor digital edition includes PDFs, images, and scans of 2 postcards and 11 letters (which contain: 11 typed letters, 14 photos, 2 blueprints, 6 newspaper clippings, 1 invitation, 4 housing registries, and 2 inspection reports).

Credits:
Created by Seb Pines
Editing by Will Jobst
Playtesting by Brittany Smith, AE Jonesy
Photo credit: Sara Goldsmith, David Berry, David Wipf