Elysburg Haunted House

"I don't mind skulls and bones," said Marie. "There's nothing even vaguely human to them.  I'm not scared of skulls and bones. They're like something insectile.  If a child was raised and didn't know he had a skeleton in him, he wouldn't think anything of bones, would he? That's how it is with me. Everything human has been scraped off these.  There's nothing familiar left to be horrible.  In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.  This isn't changed. They're still skeletons, like they always were.  The part that changed is gone, and so there's nothing to show for it. Isn't that interesting?"

- The Next in Line, Ray Bradbury

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Halloween Blur

Images by Chris.

Suburban Cemetery

My brother sent me this dreamy [uncredited] photo.

Love everything about this one.

Mr. Izzy Dead

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A Lonely Grave

Now playing: There I Lay And Time Imperfections by Causeyoufair.

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Nightmares Haunted House Cemetery

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Grave

Image by jmknapp.

Descent Into Madness

This is beautiful.




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Rest

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The Holy Grail

A while back I had a conversation with Rob at SkullandBone about what our holy grail of Halloween props would be. I hadn't ever really thought about it - the quest for the prop of all props. As in, what's the one prop you've always dreamt of making, but technical challenges or practical limitations have kept you from it.

His was very impressive and intriguing and exciting.

Mine was... well, I couldn't think of anything.

After a while, I had an image of an excavated grave. A six-foot hole with a mound of dirt, a flame lantern nearby, and an old open coffin at the bottom of the grave, with a nasty [dead] corpse looking up. Trick-or-treaters would have to walk by and peer down into the ground.

My grail is boring, I admit, but that's what popped into my head. Digging a six-foot hole in the ground is out of the question, so this'll [thankfully] never come to pass.

Note: This is a little different than the pie in the sky lottery win post.