Slasher art

Images from Mike Palace's
"Slasher" series.

Yummy!

A costume for your Subaru

I wish my Subaru looked cool like this one.


(Via Nihon Car)

Crayon skull

For the man who has everything, Vivre is selling a skull made out of crayons. For just $3600 you can have this larger than lifesize (16" x 10" x 4") skull by artist Herb Williams.

Halloween Survey

**There's still time to answer the survey. Take a moment to fill it out. Stand up and be heard! Let your freak-flag fly!














I've created a short online survey to learn how different people celebrate Halloween.
It should take you less than three minutes to complete.

free survey tool

Click here when you're ready to take the survey.

Once you've completed the survey, the most current results will be displayed. (And after a large enough number of people have responded, I'll post the final results here.)

**Update: Looks like people are neglecting to read the instructions at the top of the survey, so I'll give you the bullet points now: 1- Skip any questions that don't apply to you. (It's ok not to answer the questions about outside displays if you don't do an outside display.) 2- Pick the answer that's most accurate. (If you leave your display up for 6 days, go ahead and pick the answer that says "1 week". That's close enough.)

Skull spoons

I love these spoons by Pinky Diablo. Sadly though, they're all sold out. Hopefully he'll make more soon.

(Thanks to Kaelie for the recommendation.)

More skull tiki mugs

Exactly 1 year ago today I wrote about skull-shaped tiki mugs. Here are some more. (Available from Tiki Farm)

Little Rascals racer

My family was watching The Little Rascals tonight. (The 1994 feature film, not the classic movie shorts from the 30s & 40s.) In one of the final scenes, some bullies steal the Rascals' prize go-cart and re-paint it in this skull motif. What a creative paint job. I love it! Maybe Mrs. Bones will let me paint our car like this. (It would be the baddest looking Subaru station wagon this side of the Mississippi!)

Werewolf plush toy

I recently picked one of these up for my youngest. Turn the lumberjack inside out and you have a fearsome werewolf. Needless to say, in my house, the lumberjack rarely makes an appearance.

Haunted Mansion office

When California-based animator James Lopez moved into a new house a few years ago, he decided to decorate his home office like Disney's Haunted Mansion. He went so far as to sculpt and build his own bat stanchions and library busts. I wish I had a Haunted Mansion-themed room in my house.

Skull font

This beautiful skull font is available (for free!) from Skull-A-Day.

I want a case filled with glass eyes too!

This case of fifty glass eyes is part of the Wellcome Collection. The entire collection consists of over 1.5 million books and objects chronicling the history of medicine.



(Via Morbid Anatomy)

Haunt Style's yard haunt - 2009

It's not what you think

Here's a good example of why you can't judge a book by its cover. When I first came across this image on Ffffound I thought "Wow. That's a cool Styrofoam skull." Then I did a little digging, discovered that it's by an artist named Fabio Viale, and he works exclusively in marble. That's right. The skull you see here was carved out of a solid piece of white MARBLE!! You should check out the guy's site. He's incredibly talented. He's managed to carve marble so it looks like everything from rolls of toilet paper, paper airplanes, paper bags and balloons. He even carved himself a marble boat that actually floats!

Another motorcycle hearse

After yesterday's "Motorcycle Hearse" posting, it was brought to my attention that our friends across the pond have a similar service. Motorcycle Funerals is England's first (and probably only) motorcycle hearse service. Clients can choose between a Triumph, Suzuki or Harley. My favorite part is their emphasis on how dignified this form of coffin transportation is. (Read their website. They mention the word "dignified" on almost every page. Hell, even their logo says "For a dignified final ride".) Cause when I think "motorcycle hearse" the first word that comes to mind is definitely "dignified".

Children's anatomy

While poking around the Dream Anatomy site yesterday, I discovered this section. Seems that they asked children between the ages of five and thirteen what they thought the body looked like “under the skin.” Here are a few examples of their work.

Motorcycle hearse

For all you motorcycle enthusiasts out there, what better way to be transported to your final resting place than in a Victorian-era style hearse pulled by a motorcycle. If that sounds like something that might be up your alley, give the people at Tombstone Hearses a call.

Old goths never die... they just need less makeup.

(Via The Onion)

Special Thanks

Special thanks to the people at the following sites for all the nice things you've written about Haunt Style. Your kind words are much appreciated. I hope the Halloween-fairy brings you all something particularly bloody this year.

Grim Visions
One Cadaver
El blog de Calavera
Ghoulie Girls
Freddy In Space
iTricks
Creepy Kitch
Pumpkinrot
NJ.com
Giddy Girlie
Bloggia Obscura

Horror Friends

This is kind of funny. It's a parody of "Friends" starring Michael Meyers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Hannibal Lecter and OJ Simpson. They did a pretty good job of replicating the show's opening credits where the entire cast inexplicably dances around a fountain.

Mini-hearse

Too bad this 1:18 scale hearse is sold out. I've been looking for an appropriately sized vehicle to transport the 1:18 size corpse that's been stinking up my house since Halloween.

Skull poster

(Via OMG Posters)

Skeleton pumpkin

Click here for instructions on how to carve this skeleton from five pumpkins.

Corporate Gorilla

Is that a co-worker getting ready for Halloween, or an actual gorilla headed towards my cubicle?

Gwen Stefani's Halloween costume

Seems like most female celebrities dress up in the standard "Sexy _____" variety of costumes for Halloween each year. You know the ones... "Sexy Witch," "Sexy Pirate," "Sexy Snow White," etc. (If you don't believe me, check out this massive collection of celeb costumes from 2009).

That's why I was so happy to see Gwen Stefani dressed as Jessie the cowgirl from Toy Story 2. It's a nice family-friendly costume for your typical super-famous rock star / mother of two. And surprisingly (or not), she even manages to make it kind of sexy.