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Light And Bone

2012-01-31T11:07:00.005-05:00

The art of Yuri Leonov.

yurileonov.com

Bacon

2012-01-31T10:00:00.004-05:00

Latest Finding Bigfoot synopsis:

BoBo frying up some bacon in the woods because Squatches LOVE the smell of bacon.
He consumes a piece in an obvious eating/chewing fashion to show Squatches that he's not trying to poison them.
He throws the rest in the bushes for the Squatches.
No Squatches found.

Slashed And Happy

2012-01-30T18:09:00.002-05:00

Image by Noémi Borbála.

Burning Leaves

2012-01-30T13:08:00.005-05:00

A scent by CB I hate Perfume that smells like the real deal (I got my hands on a sample). It actually smells like a pile of burning leaves.

More information here.

Order a sample here.

Autumn House

2012-01-30T11:57:00.000-05:00

From Interior Alchemy.

The Boarded Window

2012-01-29T18:25:00.001-05:00

One day Murlock was found in his cabin, dead. It was not a time and place for coroners and newspapers, and I suppose it was agreed that he had died from natural causes or I should have been told, and should remember. I know only that with what was probably a sense of the fitness of things the body was buried near the cabin, alongside the grave of his wife, who had preceded him by so many years that local tradition had retained hardly a hint of her existence. That closes the final chapter of this true story--excepting, indeed, the circumstance that many years afterward, in company with an equally intrepid spirit, I penetrated to the place and ventured near enough to the ruined cabin to throw a stone against it, and ran away to avoid the ghost which every well-informed boy thereabout knew haunted the spot. But there is an earlier chapter-- that supplied by my grandfather.

Ambrose Bierce

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The Shape

2012-01-29T15:13:00.007-05:00

A great-looking and affordable Michael Myers mask is going to be available this coming Halloween season. Sculpted by Justin Mabry and manufactured by Trick or Treat studios.
$59.99

Click below for a video:

ACTA

2012-01-29T14:25:00.004-05:00

Since I showed support for the anti-SOPA/PIPA movement back on January 18th, I figured I'd give an update on something a lot uglier, and something which the President has already signed and is attempting to ratify.

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Boundary

2012-01-29T13:59:00.002-05:00

Image by blormore.

Now Playing: Lomond

2012-01-28T08:17:00.003-05:00

By Loess.

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Begging For Candy

2012-01-27T13:04:00.001-05:00

Ferocious Things

2012-01-27T07:12:00.001-05:00

Sculptures by Ellen Jewett.

Her etsy shop.

Now Playing: Lonely Londoners

2012-01-26T17:35:00.003-05:00

By Tiago Benzinho.

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Image by sparth.

A Season Of Shadows

2012-01-26T07:31:00.004-05:00

Incredibly saddened to see haunter John Wolfe's final blog post over at SeasonOfShadows.com. It's really difficult to process this actually.

Click below for the post.

Layers

2012-01-26T06:18:00.002-05:00

Image by killerhaunts.

Cochran's Son

2012-01-25T09:53:00.004-05:00

Was surprised to see that actor Dan O'Herlihy (Conal Cochran of Halloween III) had a son, also an actor. And one that I was very familiar with, just never knew they were related. Gavan O'Herlihy.

Naturally I immediately started having pipe dreams of a Season of the Witch remake.

Image by Crudedoodle. Awesome.

Miniature Halloween Garden

2012-01-25T08:57:00.002-05:00

Kinda awesome.

More photos at the Mini Garden Guru blog.

Green

2012-01-25T06:11:00.001-05:00

Image by dekay46.

B&W

2012-01-24T18:43:00.001-05:00

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AngryBlue

2012-01-24T09:42:00.007-05:00

angryblue.com

A Dark Playlist

2012-01-23T16:00:00.002-05:00

Image by sparth.

Guts

2012-01-23T09:53:00.001-05:00

Image by Christopher Tortolano.

Space

2012-01-22T08:21:00.000-05:00

Image by ibkc.

20 Days Of Monsters

2012-01-21T17:02:00.004-05:00

Amazing sculpts by artist Simon Lee.

Click here to see them all.

Begging For Candy

2012-01-21T10:50:00.000-05:00

The Lost Continent

2012-01-21T08:43:00.001-05:00

Wide Toothy Mouths

2012-01-21T04:31:00.008-05:00

The Haunt of Ethan Black.

More images here.

At Haunted Hill

2012-01-21T03:59:00.002-05:00

Image by NeonGlo.

Hanging Out

2012-01-20T12:41:00.000-05:00

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Strange Shapes

2012-01-20T12:27:00.003-05:00

Been spending a lot of time on the Strange Shapes blog - posts devoted to the ALIEN film series. Just packed with information and images.

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Basement Party

2012-01-19T13:02:00.001-05:00

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Feelin' Normal

2012-01-19T12:47:00.004-05:00

Art by Sam Heimer.

More at the Bottom of the Ink Well blog.

Screaming Scarecrow

2012-01-19T12:37:00.003-05:00

More images at screamingscarecrow.com

The Johnson Smith Catalog

2012-01-19T10:54:00.001-05:00

The bible of my youth...

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Collecting Souls

2012-01-19T00:00:00.000-05:00

Image by the_lawson42.

Dystopia

2012-01-18T09:43:00.005-05:00

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth.
'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

George Orwell

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Convention

2012-01-17T18:15:00.003-05:00

More at the My Vintage Book Collection blog.

Space Suits

2012-01-17T10:53:00.004-05:00

Turns out that the Space Jockey seen in the film ALIEN was just a space suit. A rotting fossilized space suit. A bones-pushed-out-from-the-inside, growing-out-of-its-chair space suit.

Man, I am NOT ok with this.

I wish I were friends with H.R. Giger. I'd call him up and see how he feels about this. Oh how we'd lament. Maybe over a pint.

More at dreadcentral.com

Hidden

2012-01-17T10:00:00.002-05:00

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An Inhabitant Of Carcosa

2012-01-17T09:30:00.003-05:00

The wind sighed in the bare branches of the dead trees and the gray grass bent to whisper its dread secret to the earth; but no other sound nor motion broke the awful repose of that dismal place.

Ambrose Bierce

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Horror Cats

2012-01-17T09:01:00.005-05:00

A blog dry spell.

Click below for The Horror Cats blog:

Mr. Plinkett's Return

2012-01-14T12:21:00.004-05:00

Been waiting for this one: Red Letter Media's review of the dreadful Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Click below:

WARNING: Totally not work-appropriate.

Halloween Dusk

2012-01-14T07:22:00.003-05:00

Inviting

2012-01-14T07:02:00.001-05:00

Image by russellk.

Dracula Vs. Frankenstein

2012-01-14T06:55:00.003-05:00

Image by sirchuckles.

Mattes, Miniatures, And Split-Screens

2012-01-14T05:59:00.004-05:00

Watching horror movies on Saturday afternoons as a kid was one of those formative things. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were like uncles to me. And so were all the weird creatures they were fighting (especially that weird flat thing with a pink swan neck which sucked bones and bled chicken soup when chopped with an axe ).

Low-tech special effects were part of it. They weren't used much, but when they were, you knew you were watching something truly special. You got used to seeing matte-painted skies and split screens with the characters in the foreground and exploding factories or castles in the background. It was never perfect, and you could always tell you were watching an effect, but you just knew someone put a lot of hard work into that scene. There was an elegance to it.

Found a blog through the Bloody Pit of Rod blog. A blog called Matte Shot. And it was wonderful to flip through this on a Saturday morning. Like a weird family reunion.

Click below:
The Matte Shot Blog.

Primitives By Kathy Showroom

2012-01-13T18:30:00.003-05:00

Road trip to Lancaster today to see Primitives by Kathy's new showroom. Load of fun seeing Bean's pumpkins among all those other cool decorations.

Three

2012-01-12T21:09:00.001-05:00

Image by The moons not a balloon.

Now Playing: Halloween IV

2012-01-12T13:01:00.003-05:00

From the expanded limited edition soundtrack, by Alan Howarth.

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Fantasmas

2012-01-12T07:44:00.000-05:00

More photos here.

The Best Laid Plans

2012-01-12T06:22:00.003-05:00

Image by jrnyfanraleigh.

Thanks, Randy.
Hadn't seen this before.

Food

2012-01-11T17:49:00.002-05:00

Image by furball2011.

Fallen Angel

2012-01-11T10:17:00.005-05:00

Father O'Hara told Father Gallagher something even stranger. "One night the boy brushed off his handlers," he reportedly said, "and soared through the air at Father Bowdern standing some distance from the bed with a ritual book in his hands. Presumably Bowdern was about to be attacked but the boy got no further than the book. And when his hands hit that - I assure you, Gene, I saw this with my own eyes - he didn't tear the book, he dissolved it! The book vaporized into confetti and fell in small fine pieces to the floor!"

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Parsnip Ghouls

2012-01-11T08:31:00.002-05:00

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Night Shift

2012-01-10T18:18:00.003-05:00

I work the night shift. I've always worked the night shift.
The night is a different world, hidden behind bedroom curtains for most.
But not for me.

In the middle of a very warm October, and in the middle of a long stretch of empty street, I left the broken-down bus behind, and figured I'd walk the rest of the way. That's when I saw the house, up on an overgrown hill, at the top of a broken and cracked driveway. My bus had passed that house every night for as long as I can remember. And every night I'd see a faint steady glow from a low window closest the driveway. The glow of a television I had assumed. The house hadn't looked so abandoned and desolate from the inside of my bus as we shot past every night. But now, standing at the bottom of that long driveway, the pale greenish light seemed very out-of-place among all that ruin. And I was a little surprised when I caught myself halfway up the driveway walking towards it. It was steady, not fluttering or pulsating like the light from a TV. Just steady.

I crouched down by a basement window well which had been mostly filled with leaves, with only the upper portion of the window visible. I couldn't see the source of the light at first. It seemed to be coming from deep inside the basement. The bushes around the house were too thick and overgrown to look for another window with a better view, so I lowered my feet into the window well and slowly knelt down onto the leaves. With most of my body crammed into the well, I found a missing window pane among the filthy cloudy glass and peeked inside. I felt the moist coolness of the basement air on my face

The basement was filled with the light. So bright and still. There was a large wide rectangular box in the center of the basement floor. More like a wooden frame, it was lidless, and each side only a few inches high. And it was overgrowing with tiny mushrooms. Hundreds and hundreds of bulbous growths. Glowing. Luminescent mushrooms. One side of the wooden frame had rotted away and even the loose spilled dirt was loaded with the glowing mushrooms.

I stared at them for a very long time. Before I saw her. Sitting in a chair. An old woman, hands folded on her lap, her old rocker facing the mushrooms. As my eyes adjusted to the strange light, I could see that her mouth was open - very wide. But it wasn't that at all. Her lower jaw was missing. And I could see the texture of her skin, flakes upon flakes, like a dry crust. Her eyes were shut tight. I could see more and more detail of her cracked pained face...

Then she slowly turned to look at me.

I froze. My face still pressed through the missing pane. And the only noise my shallow breathing. But her head hadn't turned. She hadn't moved. It was the light. The odd green light was shifting. Slowly shifting, crawling, across the basement walls. The light grew brighter, more intense. The old woman was now in total darkness. And the light - it was directing itself...focusing....on the broken basement window, and on me.

I could see tiny particles in the light, floating slowly in tiny waves. I inhaled a moist fungus scent. Putrid and foreign. A night scent. Spores. I could taste them. I could feel them.

I pushed away from the window. Pushed myself out of the window well. Stumbling. Then running. Trying to clear the taste. To outrun it.

I ran. Hating the night air. Hating the darkness. And just wanting the sun to rise.

Flames

2012-01-10T14:32:00.001-05:00

Image from Markhoff's Haunted Forest.

Knowledge And Pride

2012-01-10T13:44:00.002-05:00

I like plays. The good ones... Shakespeare... I like Titus Andronicus the best; it's sweet. Incidentally, did you know that you are talking to an artist? I sometimes do special things to my victims: things that are creative. Of course, it takes knowledge, pride in your work... For example, a decapitated head can continue to see for aproximately twenty seconds. So when I have one that's gawking, I always hold it up so that it can see its body. It's a little extra I throw in for no added charge.

I must admit it makes me chuckle every time.

The Gemini Killer

Image by Great Beyond.

Crestfallen Cemetery

2012-01-10T13:01:00.007-05:00

More images here.

Now Watching: Creepy Birds

2012-01-09T20:51:00.000-05:00

It

2012-01-09T13:10:00.001-05:00

From The Haunted Yard blog.

Corpse Reviver No. 2

2012-01-09T12:03:00.002-05:00

INGREDIENTS:
Absinthe
.75 oz Plymouth Gin
.75 oz Cointreau
.75 oz Lillet Blanc
.75 oz Lemon juice
Glass: Coupe or Martini

PREPARATION:Rinse a chilled coupe or Martini glass with absinthe and set aside. Add the remaining ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake, and strain into the prepared glass.

From liquor.com

Grotto

2012-01-08T12:55:00.003-05:00

Image from dustoncrowns.

Orange Rind Votives

2012-01-08T12:21:00.003-05:00

How-to here.

Guising

2012-01-07T19:34:00.002-05:00

Image from The Witch Hunt tumblr.

Window Owl

2012-01-07T10:01:00.001-05:00

Photo by Bean.

Begging For Candy

2012-01-07T08:43:00.003-05:00

The Ghost House

2012-01-07T05:53:00.001-05:00

Image by haunted noise.

Residual

2012-01-06T07:21:00.002-05:00

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Pingu's THE THING

2012-01-06T06:56:00.000-05:00

Click to watch:

Haunters Video Awards

2012-01-06T06:12:00.001-05:00

It's that time of year again.
Submit your videos now.

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Revisiting Haunted Overload

2012-01-05T18:48:00.001-05:00

Some more photos from their Facebook page
(still waiting for the official 2011 gallery).

Now Playing: Brainstorm

2012-01-05T18:29:00.004-05:00

Lillian's Heart Attack by James Horner.

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Gammellness

2012-01-05T06:25:00.004-05:00

Found the following post on a favorite blog of mine - The Haunted Closet. It seems that the Scary Stories books are getting a makeover. A what-the-frig makeover.

Click here to read.

And be sure to click on his link to the Adventures in Poor Taste site.

Sunset Dreaming

2012-01-05T05:56:00.002-05:00

Image by Titou Picard.

Vile Dead II

2012-01-04T18:07:00.003-05:00

Got my hands on some more photos of Jeremy's Haunt.

Cutlery

2012-01-03T19:05:00.003-05:00

By Andre Lassen.

Uninvited

2012-01-03T18:45:00.004-05:00

Image by nacmac02.

Now Playing: Faydeaudeau

2012-01-03T18:40:00.001-05:00

By System 7.

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Image by Sparth.

The Vile Dead

2012-01-03T07:35:00.006-05:00

Thanks, Jeremy!

The Haunt looks absolutely amazing.

Basement Wall

2012-01-02T11:37:00.000-05:00

White

2012-01-01T15:54:00.002-05:00

Images at ohdeedoh.com

Finding Bigfoot: New Season

2012-01-01T15:09:00.005-05:00

The bigfoot research team heads to New York to investigate video of an alleged baby bigfoot. When locals report bigfoot activity in the neighboring woods, the teams tries a new search method in hopes of finding bigfoots near the Big Apple.

Looking forward to the new season.
It premieres tonight on Animal Planet.

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Now Playing: Ascension

2012-01-01T10:23:00.004-05:00

By Tycho.
A favorite of Bean.

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Path

2012-01-01T08:08:00.000-05:00

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Crypt Witch

2011-12-31T06:36:00.001-05:00

Haunted Air

2011-12-31T05:24:00.002-05:00

By Ossian Brown.
A book of anonymous vintage Halloween photographs, with a forward by David Lynch.

First heard about this book on K.O.'s wonderful Halloween blog, and now I see it's out of print and out of stock and some clowns are trying to sell it at insanely high prices.

Here's to a re-issue (or a freak find at a yard sale).

Halloween Glow

2011-12-30T20:33:00.002-05:00

Image by x9x2x.

Now Playing: Through Blood And Fire

2011-12-30T12:04:00.003-05:00

By Marsen Jules.

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The Innkeepers

2011-12-30T11:49:00.003-05:00

Going to be watching the new Ti West film tonight on-demand.

Click below for the trailer (not crazy about the preview - they tried to make it look like Insidious [a film I detested])...

Now Playing: Wandel

2011-12-30T10:23:00.001-05:00

By Popnoname.

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Image by Sparth.

Giger: Artist And Haunter

2011-12-30T09:17:00.006-05:00

Thus I could combine my two hobbies - my enthusiasm for railways and my penchant for the morbid and the fantastic - in this one object, the ghost train. I built human skeletons from cardboard, wire, and plaster, and trained coloured lights on them with a pocket torch. My playmates were dressed in white sheets, or were hidden along the track operating mechanisms which raised the lid of a coffin, moved a hanged man slightly on a branch, or opened the jaws of a hideous monster.

As a huge H.R. Giger fan, I was thrilled to find a gift under the tree which I probably should have always owned - H.R. Giger's Necronomicon. It's beautiful, and in addition to being packed with his brilliant artwork, there are some amazing tales of his youth and his path towards Alien.

Check it out here.

Farm Hand

2011-12-30T08:41:00.004-05:00

Image by Calcedonio Blu.

Lab Decor

2011-12-29T13:33:00.002-05:00

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Bad Things

2011-12-29T12:30:00.001-05:00

Click below for a really fun video featuring the Klee Haunt:

Candy Hunting

2011-12-29T09:37:00.003-05:00

From wackyowl.com

Specimens

2011-12-29T07:38:00.000-05:00

From tatertotsandjello.com

Nacht

2011-12-28T12:19:00.001-05:00

snagt.net

This Is Hell

2011-12-27T17:47:00.002-05:00

From nightmaresandtunics.

Fallout

2011-12-27T14:31:00.000-05:00

Rinds

2011-12-27T11:30:00.002-05:00

Image by Drew O'clock.