Thursday, September 12, 2013

Now Playing: My Name On A Car

From the Drive soundtrack.

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Weather Stuff

Groovy.

In some places, Friday's highs will be up to 30 degrees cooler than Wednesday's highs. Instead of temperatures in the 90s, expect daytime highs to only reach the 60s, or even the mid-upper 50s in the Great Lakes, Appalachians, Upstate New York and northern New England.

Brisk northwest winds gusting around 30 mph will only add to the chill Friday.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Horror Music

Where Have All of the Good Horror Themes Gone?

An editorial at shocktillyoudrop.com.  And a good read.

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Dark Candles Halloween Collection

God in Heaven.
Look at the scents in Dark Candles' Halloween pack:

Halloween Limited Edition Pack
Scents Included: Carved Pumpkin™, Candy Corn,  Hallows Eve™, Hocus Pocus™


See that first one?  Can it be?
The scent I've always wanted?
The scent I've been LIVING for?

[Seeing that in print is very eye-opening.]

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Thanks, Joe!

Hot Caramel Apple Cider

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I've never tried flavored vodka of any kind, though if they sell the green olive variety, I'm all over that (currently [and apparently] too lazy to check).

A Vine On A House

About three miles from the little town of Norton, in Missouri, on the road leading to Maysville, stands an old house that was last occupied by a family named Harding. Since 1886 no one has lived in it, nor is anyone likely to live in it again. Time and the disfavor of persons dwelling thereabout are converting it into a rather picturesque ruin. An observer unacquainted with its history would hardly put it into the category of "haunted houses," yet in all the region round such is its evil reputation. 

Ambrose Bierce

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Monday, September 9, 2013

Halloween At High Noon: Way Of The Wicked

The latest from High Noon records was just released today and it's fantastic.  If I had it my way, all those Halloween party cd's...those predictable tired old fossils with Thriller and the theme from Ghostbusters on them, would be replaced with the Halloween releases from High Noon.

I just couldn't recommend these albums more highly. 

Click below for samples from Way of the Wicked:



Now Playing (Again): Hastings Sunrise


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Grassy Skulls






















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Halloween House






















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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Wake

This is really fun.
Reminded me of those old photos when families would have the casket of the departed (and the departed) hanging out in the living room.

Image by Grisly Manor.
 
The dark version of this would be very cool.

Ipomoea Alba

Sometimes called moonflower, moon vine, or antisocial flower.

Only open at night, and dead by morning.

I bloom for NO man.

Friday, September 6, 2013

The Skeleton Key

The annual return of a favorite Halloween blog.
K.O.'s The Skeleton Key.

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An Offering To The Cool Weather Today

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Tattered






















Image by Marion Smith.

Hollywood, You Have My Attention

Though I'm sure it's just a case of Robot Syndrome.
As a male, I have a bad case of it.

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Discotheque

I'd be the world's greatest (or worst) DJ.

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Begging For Candy


Thursday, September 5, 2013

Suspiria

Take them, O Death! and bear away
Whatever thou canst call thine own!
Thine image, stamped upon this clay,
Doth give thee that, but that alone!

Take them, O Grave! and let them lie
Folded upon thy narrow shelves,
As garments by the soul laid by,
And precious only to ourselves!

Take them, O great Eternity!
Our little life is but a gust
That bends the branches of thy tree,
And trails its blossoms in the dust!

 

Satanic High Priest

The makings of another great prop by corpseinc.






















And just for the sport of it, here's a list of the High Priests from the Church of Satan, past and present:
Anton LaVey — Founder & High Priest 1966–1997
Diane Hegarty — Co-Founder & High Priestess 1966–1984
Zeena LaVey - High Priestess and Public Spokesperson 1985-1990

Blanche Barton — Anton's Assistant, High Priestess 1997–2002
Peter H. Gilmore — High Priest 2001 – Present 
Peggy Nadramia — High Priestess 2002 – Present

Click here for more photos of corpseinc's work.
 

For Stews And Brews

And depending on my mood, time of day, and/or hunger, it could be either one.






















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Coolio

Cooler temps in the forecast.  A possible frost tomorrow morning.
I dig it.

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Tutbury Castle

This looked pretty awesome.

And then I spotted the ghost heads.

Zombie Tree

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Creep Factory Witch






















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Toasting The Dead

Not sure what's going on here, but I like it.






















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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Witch City Wicks

That computer monitor smell-port would come in handy right about now...

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Sleepy Hollow autumn, pumpkin apple smoky scented soy Halloween candle amber apothecary jar

Black Phoenix Alchemy

Whenever I go to this site, I feel three things:
1.  I wish computer monitors came with a small scent-port so I could sample these things.
2.  I think this site is the online equivalent of going to a haunted mansion.
3.  I feel like if I order something I'm somehow an unknowing member of an online cult.

Something's just OFF about it.  And that's not a bad thing.  Just a vibe I get.  I trust my vibes.

Anyone ever order from these guys? 

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab


Skeleton John

John decided to take his flashing to a whole new level.
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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Roger's Gardens Halloween 2013

I'd be busted for shoplifting if this were anywhere near here.






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Act 4, Scene 7.

There is a Willow growes aslant a Brooke,
That shewes his hore leaues in the glassie streame:
There with fantasticke Garlands did she come,
Of Crow-flowers, Nettles, Daysies, and long Purples,
That liberall Shepheards giue a grosser name;
But our cold Maids doe Dead Mens Fingers call them:
There on the pendant boughes, her Coronet weeds
Clambring to hang; an enuious sliuer broke,
When downe the Weedy Trophies, and her selfe,
Fell in the weeping Brooke, her cloathes spred wide,
And Mermaid-like, a while they bore her vp,
Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her owne distresse,
Or like a creature Natiue, and indued
Vnto that Element but long it could not be,
Till that her garments, heauy with her drinke,
Pul'd the poore wretch from her melodious buy,
To muddy death.


Hamlet

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Toxic Toons 2013 Merchandise

Old School artist Eric Pigors of toxictoons.com has updated his site with brand new merchandise for the Halloween season.

Click the masks below (designed by Pigors):








And it felt like a good time to re-post a few photos from his Home Haunt.  This guy's work is amazing.  PURE Halloween.