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This is an actual VH1 show. No kidding. (Well, technically, it's a pilot that was produced for VH1. The series was not picked up though, so we'll never know the identity of the ultimate victor.)

Quote

"Even as we deny that our flesh must decay, however, we surround ourselves with fictional images of the very fate we strive to hear nothing about. They are everywhere: in books, films, and TV, in advertising, in toys and games for all ages, in children's breakfast food. No American child (even one lucky enough to escape Count Chocula) can grow up without learning what a vampire is..."

-Walter Kendrick The Thrill Of Fear

(Via Monsterama)

Batty

Image by Boss Piercer. Click here to see more of his work. (Warning: Nudity)

They walk among us!

by Gahan Wilson

Fashion models & skeletons

I love it when fashion photographers use skeletons in their shoots. These two pics are from a recent issue of Elle Italia.

Happy Valentine's Day!

(Photo by Suzi9mm)

Spook House Dave

Spook House Dave is a new online puppet series "about a vampire, a witch, a werewolf, a mummy, and a rather large Frankenstein monster–all bumbling together to help an 11-year-old make his way in the big scary world." It promises "fearsome fun for the whole family."

Be sure to check out their very romantic Valentine's Day episode below...

Spook House Dave's Bleeding Heart
Uploaded by Spookhousedave

Chocolate bugs

This Valentine's Day, get your sweetheart chocolate bugs. (Not chocolate covered. Just chocolate.)

(Via BoingBoing)

Joshua Hoffine part 2

For the entire month of February, Joshua Hoffine will be selling 8.5" x 11" prints of this photo for just $20. Next month, another photo will be offered at this great price. (Keep your fingers crossed that next month it'll be "Swarm". That's the one that I really want.)

Joshua Hoffhine

A while back I wrote about a very talented photographer named Joshua Hoffine. Well, he has just released a line of necklaces featuring his haunted photos on Etsy. And the best part? They're only $20 each! Catch them while you still can.

Devil dogs and other photos

Here are some gorgeous Halloween-centric pictures from the portfolio of photographer Shannon Richardon.

New Terror Syndicate mascot

Interesting. It looks like Terror Syndicate has tried to replace their original static character/mascot prop (below) with something similar but more contemporary (left). I think I prefer the original.

Monster shirt

Sixty-eight different artists / monster enthusiasts collaborated on this awesome t-shirt for Threadless.com.
(Special thanks to Courtney for bringing it to my attention.)

Cliche Evil Super Villains

T-shirt by Threadless.com

Devil slippers

Since everyone enjoyed last week's posting on ridiculously expensive skull adorned wing tips, I thought you might like these as well. Stubbs & Wootton produce these fantastic slippers in a variety of skull and devil designs for just $395.

Skull ring USB flash drives

Now you can wear 2GB of memory on your fingers and remain fashionably macabre! These USB flash drives are available from Geek Stuff 4 U.



(Via Akihabara News)

Skull wing tip shoes

They look great, but I can't imagine ever spending $750 on a pair of shoes. Guess I'll just have to stick with my H&M brand skull socks.

Build a lifesize Jabba the Hut puppet

If you've ever wanted to do a Star Wars-themed yard haunt, this site is for you! They feature instructions on how to build a huge assortment of Star Wars crafts. My favorite is this lifesize Jabba the Hut puppet. I might build one and stick it on the front lawn at Thanksgiving wearing a pilgrim hat.

Spiderman tattoo

Wow!

Spine lamp

What a great idea! I bet they would treat me with a little more respect at the office if I had one of these sitting on my desk.

Not Halloween related

Find more videos like this on Jonathan Escapes
This has nothing to do with Halloween but I thought it looked cool. Coming January 26th to the Discovery Channel, "One Way Out". In this show, "escapologist Jonathan Goodwin attempts to break out of bizarre and dangerous homemade contraptions. Tied to his kitchen table with a live scorpion trapped inside his mouth or locked inside a box on top of a shaking washing machine with his body covered in 200,000 agitated bees, Jonathan is always on the lookout for new and extreme ways to test the art and physics of escape and find that ONE WAY OUT."

Shooting the bad guys

When you're at the gun range, why bother shooting at anonymous silhouettes when you can fire away at some of cinema's biggest baddies? Designer Olly Moss has created these targets featuring Darth Vader, the Terminator, a zombie, Freddy Kreuger, a Space Invader, Megatron, Godzilla, Agent Smith, and Goomba. And there's a good chance that the design will be available on t-shirts sometime soon.

(Via Boing Boing)

Do it yourself ambigrams

Since people seemed to enjoy the previous ambigram posting so much...
I've found a site that will "translate" any word you type into an ambigram. (In fact, if you type two words of the same length, they'll make them the inverted images of each other.) Some words work better than others. "Monster" looks great. Most of the other words I tried though ("Haunt Style", "Pumpkinrot", "ghost" and "witch") didn't look quite right. Give it a shot. Maybe you'll create something great.

Send a comment and let me know what words work well for you.

"Trick of Treat" ambigram

You know what ambigrams are, right? They're those cleverly designed words that read the same way upside down as they do rightside up. If you read Dan Brown's book "Angels and Demons" then you've already seen some of John Langdon's work. (Yes, the book's protagonist was named after the artist.) He created this very clever "Trick or Treat" ambigram for British illusionist Derren Brown's latest special. I just might carve it onto a pumpkin

Hanging your stuff on a baby's arm

Here's something you can do with all those extra baby doll limbs you have hanging around the house.