Michael Yannette
"Baron Victor von Ravenscroft" Ravenscroft Manor New Jersey
Baron Victor von Ravenscroft... The infamous master of Ravenscroft Manor. He was thought to have been many things, a warlock, a necromancer, a vampire... call him what you will, but he was evil incarnate. Legend has it the Baron was not entirely of this world. His origins are filled with mystery and most that had gotten too close, came to pay the price. It is rumored that Mahwah, New Jersey held the key to whatever the Baron and his coterie of associates were originally plotting… But only the dead truly know.
A young girl during the age of disappearances was rumored to escape Ravenscroft Manor and ran to a nearby town. In her madness, she told of a grand conspiracy that the Baron planned on bringing about the downfall of humanity using creatures of his own making. Legions created out of those people who had disappeared from Mahwah. And all with the help of some massive eldritch terror that lives within the dungeon of Ravenscroft Manor. Once unleashed, their kills would awaken the elder gods Cthulhu and Azathoth from their slumber in the deepest depths of the oceans and in the far reaches of space. The poor girl’s account was recorded, but she was never seen again. Some suspect the Baron and his followers had found her… while others suspect she was locked up in the Asylum of Miskatonic University.
Justice eventually caught up to the Baron, when a large mob of angry villagers laid siege to Ravenscroft Manor. However, they should have paid heed to the words of the mad girl, for the true horror came once they breached the gates. Ravenscroft Manor was infested with many ghastly and terrible creatures that instantly attacked the villagers, waiting within its walls… After many lives were lost, they finally caught the Baron and burned him as a warlock… But it was the Baron who had the last laugh as he placed a terrible curse upon the village and all their kin. That he would one day return to claim revenge.
That was three centuries ago… And while many have made jokes and urban legends of the Baron and his curse over the village of Mahwah…. Many of the ancestors of those who were there that night were marked with obscure deformities. And those who are not marked by the physical curse, are said to be plagued with horrific nightmares of things lingering in the darkness, waiting to take them away. While many claim it’s a result of the Baron’s curse, with modern advances in science, all those things can be controlled. So… the legend of the baron and his atrocities started to fade. Until now!
One night in autumn, a terrible storm descended upon the village, almost out of nowhere. It shook the village with immense thunder. But many who lived by the abandoned manor could hear sounds something more between the deafening thunder. Otherworldly cries and screams which shook them to their soul... for the sounds they heard were coming from the manor.
It is up to YOU to investigate what is happening at Ravenscroft Manor! And beware the shadowy clutches of Baron Ravenscroft’s Curse. Could the Baron have come back? After all these years, did he find a way to cheat death?! Will you survive the dark corners of his haunted palace and save the people of Mahwah?! We shall see... for the winds whisper of the Baron's imminent return.
"That which is not dead my eternal lie, but with strange eons even death may die... but a GOD does not... Die!" ~ Baron Ravenscroft.
(The Legend of Ravenscroft Manor can be watched at www.ravenscroft-manor.com, and more of his story can be heard on Spotify... exploring the lure on the album "Ravenscroft Manor: The Curse of Baron Ravenscroft" featuring special animated imagery on each track. Linking to the Baron's true identity... Thothugalugal... an Elder God. An ancient evil that claimed our world as its home... The Greeks called him Typhon, the Egyptians called him Apophis, few know his true name... Thothugalugal! He is the father of monsters, son of the Elder God Azathoth, twin brother of Nyarlathotep & great-grandfather of the diabolical Cthulhu. He is the Winged Chaos, a true calamity sent to our world millions of years ago. This beastly eldritch god is a massive monster of nightmarish proportions. For millions of years, he has feasted on the souls of the living and continues his reign of terror on earth in his human form... Baron Ravenscroft!)