Salem & Binx

Readers of this blog know the name Vintage Seance well.  It's a neat name for a neat Halloween blog which has been featured many times here.  I've known Vintage Seance's keeper Nina for a very long time, since 2006.  Super talented and funny, and an amazing Haunter with an exceptional eye for detail.

Happy to report that she's up to something new.  In her own words:  Think of Salem & Binx as your go-to guide for all things holiday. Seeing as there’s always a holiday on its way, or at least four beautiful seasons to live by, Salem & Binx is a one of a kind lifestyle blog offering everything from tips on entertaining, festive merch’ favorites, and so much more…

I'm totally in, and I look very forward to exploring Salem & Binx.

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And click here for a quick link to some Halloween features on Salem & Binx.

Vintage Seance Halloween 2017: Salem Witchery

Classy...

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I Declare June Mothman Month

Or not...


Another great post over at the Vintage Séance blog on a favorite topic - The Mothman (by way of a cool podcast):

Book Food

Another great post over at the Vintage Séance blog.  Food inspired from literature.  A spread based on the one in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow would probably make me weep openly if I saw it at a Halloween party.

Still wanting Yoda's Stew, Blade Runner Noodles, and any potion made by Grandpa Munster...

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The Year Of The Hollow

Great post over at the Vintage Séance blog...


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The Pickety Witch

The wonderful Haunt of Vintage Seance...

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The Tower Hotel

Very interesting post over at a favorite blog of mine... Vintage Seance.

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Roger's Gardens Halloween 2015

Stopped by a favorite blog, Vintage Seance, and saw that Roger's Gardens posted their annual video.
And it's great, as usual.

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Swamp Foetus At ScareLA

Nina from the always-cool Vintage Seance blog sent me some photos from the screening room at this month's ScareLA Halloween event in California.  Wasn't expecting it to be on such a large screen.  Absolutely awesome.  Would have loved to have been in that room (hiding in the back).

Thanks, Nina!
REALLY appreciate this.

Halloween Light

They are the last romantics, these candles:
Upside-down hearts of light tipping wax fingers,
And the fingers, taken in by their own haloes,
Grown milky, almost clear, like the bodies of saints.

Sylvia Plath

Image by Vintage Seance.

A Watcher By The Dead

In an upper room of an unoccupied dwelling in that part of San Francisco known as North Beach lay the body of a man under a sheet. The hour was near nine in the evening; the room was dimly lighted by a single candle. Although the weather was warm, the two windows, contrary to the custom which gives the dead plenty of air, were closed and the blinds drawn down. The furniture of the room consisted of but three pieces--an arm-chair, a small reading-stand, supporting the candle, and a long kitchen-table, supporting the body of the man. All these, as also the corpse, would seem to have been recently brought in, for an observer, had there been one, would have seen that all were free from dust, whereas everything else in the room was pretty thickly coated with it, and there were cobwebs in the angles of the walls.
Ambrose Bierce

Image by Vintage Seance.

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Vintage Seance Ghost Stories

...footsteps upstairs when no one else was home, hearing footsteps walking down the stairs, and -one of the spookiest things of all- hearing 'it' sit in an old wicker chair in the living room.


Image by CynfulCreations.

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The Hag

The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne’r so foule be the weather.

A Thorn or a Burr
She takes for a Spurre:
With a lash of a Bramble she rides now,
Through Brakes and through Bryars,
O’re Ditches, and Mires,
She followes the Spirit that guides now.

No Beast, for his food,
Dares now range the wood;
But husht in his laire he lies lurking:
While mischiefs, by these,
On Land and on Seas,
At noone of Night are working,

The storme will arise,
And trouble the skies;
This night, and more for the wonder,
The ghost from the Tomb
Affrighted shall come,
Cal’d out by the clap of the Thunder.

Robert Herrick (1648)


Image by Vintage Seance.

Homecoming

The autumn wind broke in a tide on the house, rain crashed down, shaking the beams, causing chandeliers to tilt their enraged candle lights. And the one hundred relatives peered out from every black, enchanted room, circling inward, all shapes and sizes...

Ray Bradbury, Homecoming


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Vintage Seance

Great animated short by PumpkinKidFilm.
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Her

Image by Vintage Seance.