Tag: Halloween

Build Your Own Electric God!

Not many people read Frankenstein and think “Hey, what a swell idea! I should try that!” But John Murray Spear was not an ordinary man. Nor did he think so small as to merely attempt to create a living creature with electricity. No, Spear thought much bigger than that. He wanted to use electricity to… Continue reading Build Your Own Electric God!

Scary Post-It Notes

Pat Cadigan posted this to her Facebook page and I instantly filed it away for a Halloween season post. It’s about a guy who does horror illustrations on Post-It notes. Like this: Or this: He’s got a Hayao Miyazaki by way of Edward Gorey and Gahan Wilson thing going on there…

Fark Annual Scary Story Thread

It’s Halloween, which means its time for the annual Fark Scary Story Thread. Here are the links to threads from previous years: 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004

Giant Pentagram in Kazakhstan

Well, here’s something you don’t see every day. A giant pentagram in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. Looks to be about 1,300 feet across. I’m sure it’s in no way a summoning grid for unspeakable eldritch horrors…

Creepy Online GIFs and Their Origins: Ballface

Here’s a GIF that’s a wee bit unnerving: It’s vaguely reminiscent of the creepy moon in Georges Méliès’s The Astronomer’s Dream. Turns out it’s from a “tracking & compositing experiment” video: I know that I always use subjects that are super-creepy for my tracking and compositing experiments…