Tag: Halloween

Halloween Horrors: Three Bedrooms, Two Bathes And A Murder Tunnel

Many of the must-have homeowner amenities considered an essential feature are no longer to be found on modern homes. No longer are buildings including such once-essential features as coal cellars, lightning rods, fallout shelters or murder tunnels. And remember: A murder tunnel is completely different than a corpse hatch.

Halloween Horrors: How Long Does A Decapitated Head Retain Awareness?

Any schoolboy whose studied the French revolution has wondered: How long does a human head retain awareness after decapitation? Here’s a roundup of information on that topic. Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about… Continue reading Halloween Horrors: How Long Does A Decapitated Head Retain Awareness?

Halloween Horrors: Know Your Yokai

Yokai is a very broad category of Japanese supernatural entity that can include demons, ghosts, monsters, and just about any other creature from folklore, from microscopic monsters than infect your spleen to dragon-sized titanic snails. Many, but not all, are malevolent, and a goodly number are extremely specific, such as Karakasa kozo, the one-eyed, umbrella-shaped… Continue reading Halloween Horrors: Know Your Yokai

Halloween Horrors: The Apprehension Engine

Suppose you wanted to do the soundtrack for a horror film: What would you use to score it? Synthesizer? Computer? Or how about commissioning a custom instrument to make eerie, unnerving sound? Behold The Apprehension Engine! The Witch is one of the films Mark Korven has scored, and I just noticed that it seems to… Continue reading Halloween Horrors: The Apprehension Engine

Halloween Horrors: The Pedophile Living In Your Daughter’s Closet

Remember the spider man of Denver and the Japanese woman that secretly lived in a man’s cabinet for a year without him knowing? Well, the wackiest state in the union manages to one up that one: A Louisiana man has been arrested after a 15-year-old Florida girl’s parents found he had been living in their… Continue reading Halloween Horrors: The Pedophile Living In Your Daughter’s Closet

Halloween Horrors: The Abominable Dr. Phibes

I just picked up The Vincent Price Collection from Shout Factory on Blu-Ray and had a chance to watch The Abominable Dr. Phibes for the first time, a movie that’s now just shy of a half a century old. It’s less a straight horror film that a black comedy Grand Guignol take on a Jacobean… Continue reading Halloween Horrors: The Abominable Dr. Phibes

2019 Fark Annual Scary Story Thread

Today is Halloween, which means it’s time for the annual Fark Scary Story Thread! Here are the links to threads from previous years: 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 While you’re here, feel free to check out some of my other freaky/creepy/scary/silly Halloween posts.

Halloween Horrors: Mysterious Dark Atlantic Mass Eats a Torpedo

Have you ever heard of the cryptid known as the Lusca? The Lusca has been described in varying ways. Some cryptozoologists have suggested it is merely a giant octopus that has been misidentified. Many others have described the Lusca as a half-shark, half-octopus hybrid monster. It has razor-sharp teeth and multi-suckered tentacles. It sometimes has… Continue reading Halloween Horrors: Mysterious Dark Atlantic Mass Eats a Torpedo