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Dream Crypt

Horror, folklore, goth culture, and immersive storytelling as public humanities.

Tonight · Dream Crypt: Portal Posse

The Halloween We Inherit

With Mak Ralston of HAUNT FORMER
Haunts, horror stories, rituals, and keeping the strange alive.
Wednesday, October 286:30 PM EasternZoom · Conversation + Q&A
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Keep the Halloween spirit alive

What made Halloween feel like Halloween for you? Join Mak for a conversation about the people, stories, and homemade scares that keep the season alive—and what we pass on to the next generation of monster kids.

Meet Mak

Mak Ralston is the creator behind HAUNT FORMER, a horror writer, independent filmmaker, and haunter. His YouTube channel explores Halloween year-round through animatronics, prop reviews, seasonal discoveries, and horror storytelling. His creative work includes short stories, screenplays, and films.

Inside the conversation

  • Haunted attractions, animatronics, and homemade scares
  • Horror stories and the rituals we carry forward
  • Your questions and favorite Halloween memories
Keep the strange alive. Pass it on.
The Halloween We Inherit with Mak Ralston — October 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM Eastern on Zoom.

Catalogue of Curiosities

Our forthcoming catalogue brings together interviews, stories, cultural projects, and curiosities from The Faceless community. Join our email list to hear when it releases and stay connected with upcoming conversations.
Coming next · Dream Crypt: Portal Posse

Beyond the Final Girl

With Jenna Kanell
Horror, stunts, disability, fandom, and taking back the camera.
Wednesday, November 44 PM EasternZoom · Conversation + Q&A

From surviving the story to shaping it

You’ve seen Jenna face Art the Clown. Now meet the filmmaker behind the survivor. Join us to explore horror craft, stunt work, representation, and who gets to tell the story.

Meet Jenna

An actor, stunt performer, writer, and director, Jenna’s work includes:
  • Tara Heyes in Terrifier
  • Carol in Renfield
  • Star and co-writer of Faceless After Dark
  • Writer and director of Bumblebees and Spray Bottle
Made with Jenna’s brother Vance for the Disability Film Challenge, Bumblebees opens a conversation about disability, collaboration, and whose experiences get space on screen.

Bring your questions

We’ll talk horror, fandom, stunt performance, and creative control. Come curious—whether you’re a film fan, a performer, or working on a story of your own.
Zoom joining link coming soon.
Return here for joining details and the YouTube stream when the event goes live.
Beyond the Final Girl with Jenna Kanell — November 4, 2026 at 4 PM Eastern on Zoom.

Have something strange to share?

A folklore story, horror craft, local legend, workshop, or discussion idea could become a future Dream Crypt session. A sentence or two is enough to get started. Share a Dream Crypt idea →

Dream Crypt

Dream Crypt is The Faceless Inc.’s horror, folklore, goth, dark arts, and immersive culture program. It uses virtual and digital spaces to explore the stories, sounds, aesthetics, rituals, scenes, fears, histories, and creative traditions that gather around the strange, the haunted, the Gothic, and the unseen. Dream Crypt is not only a spooky event. It is a cultural doorway.

What Dream Crypt Can Include

  • Horror-themed community events.
  • Folklore and supernatural storytelling.
  • Appalachian haunt, haint, granny magic, cryptid, and regional folklore discussions.
  • Goth culture, music, fashion, dance, club history, and scene memory.
  • Horror film, literature, and game discussions.
  • Haunted attraction, immersive design, lighting, sound, and atmosphere workshops.
  • Dark art showcases.
  • Performances, DJ events, panels, interviews, and cultural sessions.
  • Portal Posse conversations with horror creators, folklorists, scholars, artists, haunt builders, musicians, dancers, and community knowledge keepers.

Portal Posse: Dream Crypt Sessions

Dream Crypt may include Portal Posse sessions with folklorists, horror creators, haunt designers, goth culture bearers, Appalachian storytellers, scholars, musicians, dancers, artists, and community knowledge keepers whose work connects to horror, folklore, Gothic culture, haunt culture, or immersive storytelling.

Portal Posse is the method. Dream Crypt is one of the realms.

Portal Posse

Why It Matters

Horror and Gothic culture often preserve real community questions: fear, grief, identity, survival, ritual, outsiders, folklore, memory, exclusion, and transformation.

Dream Crypt gives The Faceless a way to treat these cultures seriously while still allowing room for play, performance, atmosphere, music, art, and community gathering.

Cultural Respect

Dream Crypt should credit sources, scenes, traditions, artists, authors, musicians, storytellers, and communities where possible. Folklore and cultural material should be handled with care, especially when it comes from living communities, regional traditions, spiritual traditions, or under-documented scenes.

Ways To Contribute

People may be invited to contribute through performances, DJ sets, music programming, folklore talks, horror or Gothic culture panels, art showcases, writing, worldbuilding, immersive design, lighting, sound, prop, avatar, environment support, Portal Posse guest sessions, Echoes documentation, volunteer hosting, welcoming, moderation, and accessibility support.
Teach Or ContributeClasses, workshops, talks, and program support.Portal PosseGuest sessions and cultural conversations.PartnershipsCollaborations, creator contributions, and shared programming.External EventMulti-group event and outside collaboration proposals.

Keep the conversation going

Bring Your Curiosity to Dream Crypt

Have a story, skill, or strange corner of culture you’d love to share? Suggest a discussion, talk, workshop, demonstration, or future guest.

Folklore, horror, Halloween traditions, creature performance, dark art, goth culture, haunted spaces—we’d love to hear your idea.

A sentence or two is enough. No finished proposal or VR headset needed. We’ll follow up by email.

Dream Crypt – Share an Idea

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