A fan's version of the Halloween III: Season of the Witch theme.
Very nice.
Click below:
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Now Playing: Halloween III Theme
From The Dust Returned
The windows of the House flew wide, a dozen here, two dozen there, to suck the ancient airs. With every window gaped, all the doors slammed wide, the whole House was one great hungry maw, inhaling night with breaths gasping welcome, welcome, and all of its closets and cellar bins and attic niches shivering in dark tumults!
Ray Bradbury
Image by southofbloor.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Now Sorta Playing: Parasomnia
Just ordered this score to the film Parasomnia, by Nicholas Pike. Haven't seen the film yet, but the samples were really impressive.
Click the Beksinski-inspired image to listen:
Airborne
Trailer for a horror film starring Mark Hamill, who says the movie has slight hints of the paranormal.
Click below:
Image source.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Alice
And we've seen her ghost coming through the yard. Just telling the story I get chill bumps from the memory of seeing her. The night my mother and I saw her ghost, our family dog ran under the couch and refused to come out for two days.
Text and image from Haunted Houses, by author (and photographer) Corinne May Botz.
An English Scarecrow
Got an email from Jamie and Nev, from Shoreham Village, Kent, in the United Kingdom. They were inspired by my site and entered a scarecrow competition - and took first place.
I think I need to move across the pond.
Thanks for the email and the pics!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Caves, Dollar Bills, And Treasure
When we were kids, it seemed we were always looking for things. Like arrow heads (never found any), bones, caves in the sides of hills, and buried treasure (not the Spielberg kind, though that would have been nice - just weird things sticking out of the ground). There were miles of woods near our home, surrounding a creek that ran all through the area. The woods were narrow, just sticking to each side of the stream, since industrial parks and housing developments and neighborhoods bordered the woods. But we'd walk with old sneakers through the water, overturning rocks, hunting for eels and crayfish, which actually inhabited the water back then (this was a suburb of Philadelphia, so don't be picturing a beautiful rural Americana setting).
We'd be gone for hours. We'd throw rocks at hornet nests, ping each other with wrist rocket sling shots, and even find weird little shacks, lined with carpet pieces and beer bottles. We once watched a man bury three black trash bags in the middle of the woods. When he left, we scurried over and dug up one of the bags - it was filled with dirt. VERY strange.
I wonder if kids still go creek-walking. I wonder if they still look for things like caves, dollar bills, and treasure. Man, I hope they do.
It's out there somewhere.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Fall Scents From Yankee Candle
This modern blend of sweet orange, clove, ginger and cinnamon is a new take on pantry favorites.
Buttercream gets a spicy twist... a traditional recipe of pumpkin, vanilla, cinnamon and clove.
A cool and calm stroll by the river...watery green notes with hints of sage, amber and oak.
A perfect autumn day captured in radiant, aromatic strokes of brisk air, spicy woods and warm musk.
yankeecandle.com
Glaring
Oh!—fruit loved of boyhood!—the old days recalling,
When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling!
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,
Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!
John Greenleaf Whittier
Image by Cari Overall.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Wicked Plants
A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations in an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.
Click below (and be sure to watch the video):
Thanks, Frog Queen. Never heard of this one.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Under The Stairs
The stairs to the basement have a storage area beneath them. There's a narrow door leading in, with the bottom panel missing. 
Housewarming Gift
From my brother.
The French Quarter, locally known as Vieux Carré, is the soul of New Orleans, Louisiana. This city is replete with culture, architectural beauty and culinary arts. Philadelphia Distilling pays tribute to the unique and colorful history of Absinthe in New Orleans with the release of Vieux Carré Absinthe Supérieure. The first batch of Vieux Carré was released on December 31, 2008. It is the first legal absinthe to be distilled, bottled and sold on the east coast of the United States in nearly 100 years.
Looking really forward to meeting Wormwood.
vieuxcarreabsinthe.com
Honorable Mention No More
I won't be entering that annual scarecrow competition this year. With the recent move, my Swamp Foetus build, and a need to make shop creatures, I'm going to be pressed for time unlike other years.
Now that's not to say that I won't be building a scarecrow to display during October. I just won't be entering one in the contest.
Goodbye, pale blue ribbon.
Image by propane tank.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Now Playing: Helen Leven Lang
Some light (and dark) ambient by Sembler Deah.
Click below:
Image source.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Miss Marble
Halloween was the time she figured most prominently in our thoughts. First because she was a witch, of course, and second because of a time-honored ritual among the neighborhood children concerning her and ourselves and that evening of the year.
From Yesterday's Witch, by Gahan Wilson.
Image source.
I really truly intensely recommend this short story.
Now Playing: Khan's Pets
Super creepy track by James Horner, from the score to Star Trek II.
Click the Ceti Eel:
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Dark Gardens
Planted a lot of sweet potato vines around the garden - tiny purple/black ground-cover plants with weird pointy leaves.
A good question to ask yourself (not the store owner) when you're shopping for plants: "What would a witch have in her garden?"
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
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