About Me

Welcome, dear wanderer, to the Orphan Asylum.

I am Rhonda — maker, dreamer, and devoted inhabitant of the shadows. I have spent the past few years conjuring creatures that live in the space between a candlelit room and a forgotten fairytale. Each one-of-a-kind Gothling born from this menagerie is handmade, shaped by pattern and textile and something harder to name — a lifelong love affair with all things gothic, mournful, and beautifully dark.

My heart has always belonged to the romantic gothic tradition: to velvet gloom and Victorian melancholy, to the folklore that whispers beneath old trees, to the elegance that death wears when it dresses for a dance. The Gothling is my answer to that call — a soft, singular creature stitched from imagination and shadow, carrying within it the quiet poetry of memento mori. No two are ever alike. Each arrives as its own small mystery, waiting to haunt your shelf, your hearth, or your heart.

Danse Macabre Menagerie LLC is not simply a shop. It is an invitation — to embrace the dark, to find beauty in impermanence, and to keep strange and tender company with the night.

Welcome to the dance.

— Rhonda