Lineup

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Corn Witch Victims

A photo from June when the corpses started to pile up.

Remnants

Tin Man and some morning sun.


Cellar of Pain.


Appleseed Witch.

Dark Harvest

It’s Halloween, 1963… and getting on towards dark. Things are the same as they’ve always been. There’s the main street, the old brick church in the town square, the movie theater—this year with a Vincent Price double-bill. And past all that is the road that leads out of town. It’s black as a licorice whip under an October sky, black as the night that’s coming and the long winter nights that will follow, black as the little town it leaves behind.


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iCandy

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Emotional Squash

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Window Displays

More displays here.

Details

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Third Place?

Cast your vote for the Davis Graveyard haunt. They're currently in third place. Take it from a multiple-time non-first-place scarecrow winner, First is way better than Third (I'm assuming).

DAVIS GRAVEYARD HAUNT VIDEO

Pumpkin Status

Walgreens

Picked this Christmas candle holder up at Walgreens yesterday. Saw a bunch of stuff that totally could (and should) be used for Halloween. There were some large plastic outdoor candles with white flame bulbs and simulated dripping wax. Halloween potential at Christmas commercialism low prices.

This would be really cool in green. Place these guys amongst your jackos and you'd have some nice atmosphere going.

Toasted Pumpkin

The real deal.


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Reaper Detail

Eric at Haunted Overload sent me this great detail shot of one of his massive Reapers. He said he'll leave them out all year long. I had assumed all of the props were broken down and hidden under tarps until next season.

I love the idea of these guys standing in the middle of a New England snow storm.




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Now Playing: Cello

Lonely and distant. Post-Halloween music for sure.
Like that one big rain that comes through and takes away the leaves.

Bare branches for Winter.


Listen to samples here.

Jar Lanterns

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A Night Of Runes

cold grain
and shower of sleet
and sickness of serpents



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Vote For The Davis Graveyard

They totally deserve to win this contest.
Just double click on the video to launch youtube and rate them five stars.

Thanks!

Webs And Bones

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Salvation Army

My mother informs me the giant iron cauldron I've left on her lawn has some coins in it. My father has started telling neighbors it's for the Salvation Army Christmas fund.

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The Scarecrow's Post

A neat blog by a friend of mine featuring masks and scarecrows and Halloween.

The Scarecrow's Post.

Turnips

A traditional Irish turnip Jack-o'-lantern from the early 20th century. Photographed at the Museum of Country Life, Ireland.


Every year I wax nostalgic about using turnips in my haunt. And every year I pick one up in the produce section and am reminded that they're basically a block of purple-white wood. I tried to carve turnips one year and I'm shocked that it ever caught on in Ireland in the first place.

Sorry, Turnip.

Hello, Pumpkin.

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Old School

And loving it.


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Overdosing On Halloween

My good friend Jon is a pretty talented guy. And his photographic skills are additional proof of that. Check out this slideshow of photos he snapped at our Haunted Overload weekend of fun.


And visit JonGlassett.com for some more detail on the event.

What If...

Lately I've found myself planning a haunted attraction. One of those pie in the sky things. I think I'll blame Eric from Haunted Overload. He proved that a haunted attraction doesn't have to be packed with animatronic movements and blasts from compressed cylinders. It's all about detail and atmosphere. So the question I keep asking is - can a haunted attraction be totally static, with no movement whatsoever except for fog and flickering candles. No actors, no startling scares, just creep factor. Would visitors feel cheated? Would they throw rotten fruit at me?

One of the scenes in my display would be a massive wall-t0-wall floor-to-ceiling crypt/catacomb/ossuary. Very narrow, very dark, and very long. Corpses and smashed coffins, some tree roots, and darkness.

Sorta like this beautiful photo from Opacity.us, but vile and dank.

It'll probably never happen, but it's fun planning it in my head.

Katzper's Haunt 2009 [Video]

I love that haunters' videos are popping up everywhere.
Here's the super creepy Katzper's Haunt video.



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