The Springwood Slasher

Wow.  This guy practically IS Freddy Krueger.
Owning this getup would be way too much fun on Halloween night.

More images here.

30th Anniversary

So it occurred to me today that this year's display will be the 30th anniversary of me doing a Yard Haunt in one form or another.  THIRTY YEARS of offering tributes to the Halloween gods.  Sacrifices for the High Holiday. 

A comparison shot below...  1986 and 2015.

I still remember setting up that ghost.  My brother and I stuck a flashing strobe light in its head.  And I have absolutely no idea what made us do it.  We just silently went to work.  My dad had foam sheets in the garage, so my brother just figured he'd make tombstones out of them.  No how-to's (no internet), no books from the library.  Weird.  Just kinda happened. 

The Final Chapter

Watched all of these films...though I'm not sure I could sit down and write out what happened in which films and what exactly is going on...or why there were multiple Milas in one or a few of the movies.

But I'm on board. 

31 Scarecrows

I'm looking VERY forward to seeing this film.
Comes out in a month...

Winston Love

If humanoid aliens ever land on Earth, we should all hide and have something like this greet them.
Just to F with em for a few minutes.

Image source.

Halloween Sightings

Saw one end cap at Home Goods with a few Halloween items, but not too much out there other than Michael's (though it's still too hot for Halloween shopping).

Looks like the Halloween event that is Roger's Gardens takes place on September 2nd.

Halloweenforum.com always has a bunch of folks posting photos of their Halloween store sightings...
Click here to check them out.

Kill It Or Become It

The Spice

Real pumpkin puree, cinnamon, and cloves contribute to the spot-on taste that every pumpkin-spice fan is guaranteed to appreciate. 

Broadening My Brand

Was happy to be a [very small] part of this project...
Charred Walls of the Damned's latest album:  Creatures Watching Over the Dead.

Click below for a track:

Krampus: Halloween Horror Nights

Thanks, Joel, for the heads up!
Hoping there are some snowmen there...

Crop Monster

Image by whensparrowsfall.

At Vinnie's

It's Coming...

Dummy by Grickle

Spook House Greenville Texas

By Ron Bigony.

The artist's site here.

How I Feel In The Summer

Image source.

Pumpkin Patch

By Rhode Montijo.

Neat Scene From A Slender Man Short Film

Feather Cape

Thinking of getting this for myself.
Only $149.00

The Fog: Live

Straw, Flesh, And Iron

Images by punkineater.

You Are All My Children Now

Found a neat Robert Englund tumblr...

The tumblr here.

Classic

Just when I think there's no possible way this track won't sound too familiar and overplayed, it turns out to sound just like Halloween night.

Now Playing: Let Us Prey OST

Fun horror film with a GREAT electronic score.

Click below:

Nailhead

Images from the Outside Clyde blog.

Beauty And The Beast

Even in the obscuring twilight, and behind the lightly floating veil of snow, the Wanderer was clearly no more than a humble old tramp freighter. The most imaginative, the most romantic eye could have detected nowhere about her that lean grace, those sharply cleaving contours which the landsman looks for in a craft all set to embark upon a desperate adventure.

King Kong, the novel.

Image by Nekoglyph.

Beyond The Wall

The Californian winter was on, and the incessant rain splashed in the deserted streets, or, lifted by irregular gusts of wind, was hurled against the houses with incredible fury. With no small difficulty my cabman found the right place, away out toward the ocean beach, in a sparsely populated suburb. The dwelling, a rather ugly one, apparently, stood in the center of its grounds, which as nearly as I could make out in the gloom were destitute of either flowers or grass. Three or four trees, writhing and moaning in the torment of the tempest, appeared to be trying to escape from their dismal environment and take the chance of finding a better one out at sea. The house was a two-story brick structure with a tower, a story higher, at one corner. In a window of that was the only visible light. Something in the appearance of the place made me shudder, a performance that may have been assisted by a rill of rainwater down my back as I scuttled to cover in the doorway.

Ambrose Bierce

Text source.
Image source.

Now Playing: That House

By Dance with the Dead...

Split

Field Duty

Image by Kamil Krysa.

Highbury How-To

GREAT instructions on making a foam tombstone over at the Highbury Cemetery blog.

Click below:

Tweens To Be Tried As Adults In Slender Man Attack

My Roots scarecrow has surfaced again in affiliation with the dreaded Slender Man.

The caption is hilarious, beings I never heard of Slender Man back when I built him...
"An artist's depiction of the Slender Man, a popular Internet meme."


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Haunted Acres

Images by TheNextMartha.

Spirit Scarecrow

Haunted Overload: 2016 Build Video

Wonder Woman

Kong: Skull Island

I'm in.