Death House

The Death House was a haunted house which the PCs were forced to take shelter within in Barovia Village when they first arrived in Barovia. It was once inhabited by the Durst family, a family of nobles who participated in bogus cult rituals to summon fiendish spirits and to please Strahd. Strahd was not amused when they would sacrifice newcomers to Barovia, and he slayed the cultists in retribution. The family's children, Rosavalda and Thornboldt Durst, remained locked in the attic where they starved to death.

The ghosts of Rose and Thorn asked the PCs to help them get rid of the "monster" under their house, which was actually just the noise of the family's occult rituals. After the PCs met the ghosts of the children, the murder fog enclosed around them, forcing them to take shelter within the house.

The cultists rituals, although bogus, did attract the attention of evil spirits, which have caused the house to become haunted and brought to life Lorghoth the Decayer in the lowest levels of the basement.

After defeating Lorghoth, the house began to break down and try to kill the PCs with poison chimney smoke and doors filled with scythes, but they narrowly escaped it as it collapsed behind them.