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By Thorsten Quaeschning and Ulrich Schnauss.

What's Your Halloween Holy Grail?

It seems the olden days of Halloweening had a lot more to offer by way of unique decorations and interesting finds.  Stores these days seem to offer less and have more stuff that's shiny and powdered with glitter.

So I was thinking about what would be my Holy Grail by way of walking into a store and seeing a Halloween decoration/item that would make me gasp and pray it was affordable.

For me, I think it would be some unique ceramic jack o'lantern with an incredible face and a unique finish...  or some kind of creepy wall mask, like the one Peter Vincent had hanging in his apartment...  or something like this vintage metal Devil ash tray (but in wall art form).

What's your Halloween Holy Grail?

Feeney's Halloween 2017

Took the annual trip to a favorite store...

Want

Image by Maren Robinson.

Begging For Candy

Alive

Image by a.bxlla.

Haunted Hollow At Yankee

It takes a lot to get me to spend twenty bucks on a candle, but this thing actually smells like the description:
A spicy, spooky adventure through dark piney woods with a ghostly trail of sweet incense.

Though I don't smell the pine, and that's totally fine...

Click below for Yankee's Halloween offerings...

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This is a FREE downloadable horror-synth compilation in celebration of RUE MORGUE's 20th Anniversary.

Please enter $0 as the amount you wish to pay when downloading. Any money donated to this page will be given to charity.

Available until October 31, 2017 at midnight!

Every track is awesome... loved seeing Espectrostatic on this one.

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By Tom Tyler.

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Begging For Candy

HappyPlywood

Etsy shop here.

Decoy

Image by Brian Ward.

Yankee Halloween This Saturday

Because when I think Halloween, I think of the color blue...

John Carpenter: Anthology

My GOD, man.

“Anthology is a near-comprehensive survey of John Carpenter’s greatest themes, from his very first movie, the no-budget sci-fi film Dark Star, to 1998’s supernatural Western, Vampires. Those sit alongside the driving, Led Zeppelin-influenced Assault on Precinct 13 theme, Halloween’s iconic 5/4 piano riff, and the eerie synth work of The Fog. Carpenter and his band also cover Ennio Morricone’s bleak, minimalist theme for The Thing.”

“We also get vital new recordings of the themes to ’80s classics and fan favorites Big Trouble in Little China, Escape From New York, Christine, and They Live, along with the romantic Starman. The collection is rounded out by the menacing, heavy themes to Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness, the latter a Metallica-inspired riff originally played for the film by Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, and now played by his son Daniel.”

Here’s the full track list:
1. “In the Mouth of Madness”
2. “Assault on Precinct 13”
3. “The Fog”
4. “Prince of Darkness”
5. “Santiago (Vampires)”
6. “Escape From New York”
7. “Halloween”
8. “Porkchop Express (Big Trouble in Little China)”
9. “They Live”
10. “The Thing”
11. “Starman”
12. “Dark Star”
13. “Christine”

More info here...

Classic

 Image by transplanted_.

Sister Anna Blanca

This is a GREAT prop.
Imagine it at night.

Thanks, Donna!

Sugar Skulls And Paper Lanterns

Images by Noble Woods.

Official Ben Cooper Costumes Instagram

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Trick-Or-Treat

By Sam Heimer for an upcoming Ben Cooper art show.

B4C

Green

Flying Humanoids

And now we've had, as of the second week of August, 29 sightings of flying humanoids in Chicago. Mostly they've been observed hovering in the air, but one took a dramatic leap off the Sears Tower, and two more performed aerial maneuvers above the Adler Planetarium. ("They flew figure eights around each other," a witness recounted. "It looked like they were dancing in a strange sort of way. It was actually quite beautiful, considering how freaking strange it was.") One of the sightings was reported by a police officer and confirmed by a self-described aspiring journalist, both of whom saw a tall, thin figure jump off an apartment building in Auburn Gresham and fly away.

Click below for the article:

Catacomb Cloth Wall

"The Catacomb Skull Wall Cloth is for the serious halloween decorator. Measuring a huge 132 x 195cm this fantastic Wall Curtain features 42 vacuum-formed plastic skulls (14 x 3 styles). The Skulls attach with Velcro into pre-cut holes in the fabric. If you are looking for a scary halloween horror prop decoration with real 'WOW' facture, then you need look no further."

This seems to be unavailable in the States, but I think this would be very interesting to use in a Haunt.  Great designs on the skulls too.  It'd be fun to re-paint the skulls and add a little mache.

Found this shot on Instagram...

And here's a link to a site selling them in the UK.

For All Your Wine Needs

Free: HalloweeN Returns

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Thanks, Chris!