Now Playing: The Dead Walk

By John Harrison, from the Day of the Dead soundtrack.

Click below...

Elvira Tweet

Smiled when I saw this.
How cool...

Thanks, Shelley!

Ichabod

Now Playing: It Begins

A wonderful track by 400 Lonely Things from their Tonight of the Living Dead album.
Couldn't find this track anywhere on youtube, so click below for my 2010 video featuring this awesome cue.

Image by Matt Peppler.

And click here for samples of the album.

Hi-Res Leftover

From 2010...

Sketches

Some old quick sketches during the planning of my 2010 display.

From the Tinies page.


The Zombie Apocalypse doodle.


A super quick concept for Jenny Green Teeth.


A random scarecrow from an idea I ditched.


And another scarecrow design I dug, but couldn't get it to work once I started to build him...


So only his head remains.

Now Playing: Do You Believe In Witches?

By Jon Glassett.

Click below:

This Sequestered Glen

Hue

Sentinels Waiting

Some old photos of the Sentinels back when I finished them up.

Sentinels

Going through unused photos this morning.

Historic Halloween

The Ghost photo shoot was in a pretty historic place. I knew the church and cemetery were from the 1700's, but didn't realize George Washington used the location to hold Hessian prisoners, and that 22 Revolutionary War soldiers were buried there.

Both the church and session house (seen below) have old broken tombstones leaning up against their walls.

Undead

There wasn't a sign of life left, except... by now, there were no more screams. I realized that I was alone, with fifty or sixty of those things just... standing there, staring at me! I started to drive, I - I just plowed right through them! They didn't move! They didn't run, or... they just stood there, staring at me! I just wanted to crush them! And they scattered through the air, like bugs.

Youtubed

Click below to watch the 2010 video slideshow on youtube:

Goodbye, Jenny Greenteeth

This was shot in historic Washington's Crossing, near a small tributary feeding into the Delaware River. The water was slow-moving and kinda stinky. She got so saturated with the skunky water that I decided to leave her there (and she looked really at home there). It rained three days after the shoot and I'm picturing her getting washed down and out into the Delaware River, and someone finding her on the banks, and calling the police.

Or worse.

Halloween 2010: Creepshow

And now for something completely different.

Click the image for this year's video slide show of my Haunt which took place over the last couple of months.

Below the image you'll see the button which will take you to my 2010 gallery page. My recommendation is to view the video first and then to view the pics.

Or click here for the youtube video



Did you watch the video?

Halloween 2010

Creepshow

           

Samhain

Sunday: Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 50s and lows in the low 40s.

Going to be spotty with the blog posts now that we're in those final days before the High Holiday. A few more things to finish up, but everything is going according to plan.

Looking forward to a new year of blogging all things Halloween.

Can't wait to see everyone's Haunt photos.
Good luck and good weather to you.

And... Happy Halloween.

Halloween MMX

An unconventional impulse has been festering since last Halloween regarding my plans for 2010. And I'm going to run with it. Which means my discussions of a yard haunt theme of The Ancients (or an Old School haunt) will be stored in my Halloween cache of ideas and saved for a later year.

And that's all I'm sayin'.

Image source (unrelated to idea).

Halloween 2010: The Ancients

What is this place?

And who built... them?
Do they represent gods? Anti-gods?

6,000 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 8,000 years older than Stonehenge. But not in ruins. Not buried under tons of soil and rock.

Folklore says the Devil created the monuments of Stonehenge, moving great stones from the heathen shores of Ireland.
And now I wonder if he built this place.
And them.

What is this place?