The painting part incidentally happened to my partents. They had a friend who was basically giving away his paintings but nobody wanted them (they were horrify

The painting part incidentally happened to my partents. They had a friend who was basically giving away his paintings but nobody wanted them (they were horrifying, Coraline-style, and actually a picture of his mind). He even wanted to create a paining roll with similar horrors when they were painting their apparment. He was a very good friend but the paintings were to much. Then he died and a few years later his paintings prices hit the roof (various hundreds of thousands of euros). My parents are still glad to not have had the paintings because they were giving them nightmares :)