Gothic Hills

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Now Playing: The Step I Take

A new track from one of the best Dark Ambient projects out there - Kammarheit.  Hopefully this means a new album is on the way.

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Spoops: The Little Spirits Of Halloween

Who changes the leaves? Summons the autumn winds? Wakes ghosts and spirits to haunt houses and chill the air? Why, Spoops, of course! They hatch from the smallest gourds in your local pumpkin patch at the start of every fall, then tend to your town to ensure everything is just right for Halloween.

My friend A.J. Locascio has a children's book coming out this August, based upon the small creatures he invented and sells throughout the year - The Spoops.  I'm a proud owner of a few of them.

As someone who has looked into getting a book published, I have nothing but immense respect for the people who can pull it off.  It's truly impressive.  

Super excited for A.J. and illustrator Laurie Conley.  Looking extremely forward to adding this one to my growing collection of children's Halloween books.

Click here for his Spoops IG.

Click here to pre-order the book.

The Entrance

Chit-Chat

ChatGPT uses advanced natural language processing (NLP) to understand and respond to user input. It can be used for a wide range of tasks, including answering questions, summarizing information, writing articles, generating code, and even composing creative pieces like poems or scripts. 

How it works:

ChatGPT is trained on a massive dataset of text from the internet, allowing it to learn patterns and generate coherent and relevant responses. It essentially predicts the next word in a sequence, based on the previous words and the overall context. 

This technology will soon make you unemployed and intensely miserable (I made that part up).

This might seem self-serving, but I promise that my brother texted me out of the blue saying he asked ChatGPT about my work.  It was unsolicited (I swear), as I feel like simply asking A.I. about me is ultimately going to lead to it ripping me off, and to the aforementioned misery.  

But when asked, it responded with the below:

Pumpkinrot’s style can best be described as handcrafted folk horror meets Halloween art installation. His work blends rustic, decayed materials—like sticks, burlap, and natural fibers—with hauntingly atmospheric lighting and design. The result is a deeply eerie, otherworldly aesthetic rooted in:

Folk horror: Inspired by rural superstitions, scarecrows, and pagan-like effigies.

Organic textures: Emphasizes weathered, rotting, and natural elements.

Silent storytelling: His props often feel like they’re part of an ancient ritual or lost myth, evoking narrative without words.

Muted, earthy palette: Dominated by browns, grays, and sickly yellows, with flickers of candlelight or eerie glows.

Minimal but powerful movement: Many of his pieces are static but posed in ways that suggest life or presence.

Overall, his work feels like unearthed relics from forgotten autumnal folklore—evocative, unsettling, and deeply immersive.

I was really creeped out at first.  But then I figured that write up would look nice on a tombstone... I definitely appreciated that it formulated that description based on stuff it found online.  But it still feels icky.

Then I envisioned a future where home haunters begin generating A.I. haunt photos of nonexistent Halloween displays.  A future where it becomes impossible to determine what's real and what's not.  As someone who receives messages on Instagram asking me if my photos are A.I., I dread a future where no one can tell the difference.  And I'm thinking that future isn't all that far away.  

Witch

Now Playing: Moonlit Waters

By Nocmar.

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Haunting.net

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Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders

Watched this unsettling documentary tonight and it reminded me of this old blog post about the time I saw a guy, RIGHT after the murders occurred, dressed as a Tylenol pill on Halloween night, back in 1982.  After all these years, I still can't believe he did it.  

The documentary is pretty chilling.

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Now Playing: Superstition

A really cool cover of a great Stevie Wonder song.

By R. Missing.

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Trailer: Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein

This one feels very promising.

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