By Mary Lorson and Billy Cote.
Click for samples.
Tracks 4, 8, and 12 are my faves (and track 3 is just way cool).
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Now Playing: Piano Creeps
Jekyll & Hyde Club
I visited this spooky themed restaurant in New York City many many years ago.
Image source.
Thanks, Dave, for reminding me about this neat place. I had forgotten all about it.
jekyllandhydeclub.com
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Ghostly
I love headless props.
Image source.
This was part of the annual Lumiere festival in Durham, England.
Check it out HERE.
Cursed
Darkchylde is the story of a cursed teen who can become the creatures from her many nightmares, and then must save her small town from the forces of darkness she's set free.
Ariel Chylde was created by artist Randy Queen, a friend and fellow worshipper of all things Halloween.
She even has her own sculpture:
Sideshow Collectibles.
DarkChylde.com
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Happy Birthday, Antonio Bay
11:55, almost midnight.
Enough time for one more story. One more story before 12, just to keep us warm.
In five minutes, it will be the 21st of April. One hundred years ago on the 21st of April, out in the waters around Spivey Point, a small clipper ship drew toward land.
Suddenly, out of the night, the fog rolled in. For a moment, they could see nothing, not a foot ahead of them. Then, they saw a light. By God, it was a fire burning on the shore, strong enough to penetrate the swirling mist. They steered a course toward the light.
But it was a campfire, like this one. The ship crashed against the rocks, the hull sheared in two, mars snapped like a twig. The wreckage sank, with all the men aboard.
At the bottom of the sea, lay the Elizabeth Dane, with her crew, their lungs filled with salt water, their eyes open, staring into the darkness.
And above, as suddenly as it had come, the fog lifted, receded back across the ocean and never came again. But it is told by the fishermen, and their fathers and grandfathers, that when the fog returns to Antonio Bay, the men at the bottom of the sea, out in the water by Spivey Point will rise up and search for the campfire that led them to their dark and icy death.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Haunted Overload 2.0
Eric of Haunted Overload posted some photos of a scale model of a new structure he plans to build for his haunted attraction.
Here's what he said about it:
I approach it like a building first and sculpture second. I go through each step in my mind with the model to see if it will even work. Then I know exactly what and how many of each beam I will need and calculate cost. Also I can figure out the best way to actually build it and the steps in order because it's not like building a house where there is a set way of doing things. For instance, I will build the eye sockets on the ground so I can get a nice mean shape. Then install them on the structure.
hauntworld.com
Ghost World
"Jaan Pehechaan Ho" from the film Gumnaam featured in the beginning of the wonderful Ghost World.
Click to watch:
And click here to see the trailer for Ghost World.
The Prop Of The Dead
The Propnomicon blog "focuses on horror and fantasy props of interest to fans of H. P. Lovecraft and players of the "Call of Cthulhu" role playing game."
Propnomicon: Things in a Bottle
Porch Witch
This photo reminded me of a coworker who has since retired. Every Halloween season she would start wearing to work a shiny witch hat with built-in orange hair. She was close to 60 years of age and it looked rather perfect on her. She lived alone and told me she'd sit on the porch in an old wooden chair and hand out candy. She commented that children would almost always skip her house, and those being led by parents would react in a way that would make their parents also skip her house.
Image source.
Probably because she looked something like this up there on her porch.
Ancient Aliens
If ancient aliens visited Earth, what was their legacy, and did they leave behind clues that exist in plain sight such as sophisticated aircraft, complex electrical grids, and intricate construction machinery? Indian Sanskrit texts, dating back to 6000 B.C., describe in varying but vivid detail flying machines called Vimanas. Megalithic stone structures in Egypt reveal evidence of precision saw work. Interpretations of the Jewish Zohar writings offer depictions of a life-sustaining manna machine, eerily similar to chlorella algae processing systems today. Are these examples of modern technology, or is there evidence that these incredible mechanisms existed on Earth thousands of years ago?
The series premieres tonight on the History Channel.
I'll be watching.
history.com
Monday, April 19, 2010
Urban Myth Hunters
Here's an old MTV feature on the editors of Weird NJ. It gives a good idea of what the magazine is all about.
Click below:
And here's their site:
weirdnj.com
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Mists
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Carl Sandburg
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Image by Sparth.
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