Seeing this post greatly reminded me of a picture I made for a website design I did several years ago:<br>
<img src="http://www.teagues.org/darkness/intro_dooropen.gif">
and then there was another photo that I liked, but I can't find it without the text overlay.. sorry =/
<img src="http://www.teagues.org/darkness/background.gif">
...here is the link to see what the "mock-up" looked like in case you'd like to see what it looked like actually on the page.
<a href="http://www.ocho.net/darkness/">
http://www.ocho.net/darkness/</a> (mouseover the door, then click)