Some artists’ work just lends itself to Halloween. Here are a couple of current artists whose work is hauntingly memorable. Julie Speed‘s eerie paintings are quite unsettling, with an undecipherable symbolism that seems to me to depict utter dread. Michael Ramseur captures haunted places (like the lunatic asylum below) with a childlike sense of color [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Creepy Art
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recent Photos
Posted in Uncategorized on October 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We’ve been doing a lot of celebratory, spooky stuff lately. Here are a couple of random photos I took with my iPhone. I went to 5th Avenue and saw some of the Halloween-decorated shop windows (mentioned in my previous post). In this window, the decorator was actually in the window putting up his design. I [...]
Halloween in Gotham
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New York City is a great place to be for the Halloween season, despite its lack of yard haunts (due to the fact that no one here owns a yard). Have you heard of the famous Christmas window displays in stores downtown? Well, those stores dress up their windows for Halloween too. Observe: These photos [...]
The Steampunk Haunted House
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Each year the talented performers and artists at Third Rail Projects create an immersive Neo-Victorian nightmare in a historic theater on the Lower East Side. The experience is called the Steampunk Haunted House, and it’s by far the most unique haunt I’ve ever attended. The first time I went, I was amazed at how well the Steampunk aesthetic [...]
Session 9: A Tribute
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
“Some of the patients … they come back.” Session 9 is a remarkable horror film. It tells the story of five construction workers hired to remove asbestos from an abandoned insane asylum. As they try to complete the job over the next week, the building begins to affect them. Soon one of the men discovers audiotapes [...]
Pumpkin Bread Recipe
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We make pumpkin bread every year, using a recipe we Frankensteined from several online sources. The loaves are deliciously moist, dense, and have a great flavor of fall spice. Of course, the bread is best when made with fresh (pie) pumpkin. However, it can also be quite successfully made with canned pumpkin. If you want [...]
Visit to Sleepy Hollow, New York
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Every October since we moved to New York, my husband and I have visited the village of Sleepy Hollow. This town is famous for being the place where Washington Irving lived and wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow–a.k.a. the story of the “Headless Horseman.” It’s a beautiful New England town that’s only 25 miles north [...]
Creepy Postcard
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is just cool. I couldn’t resist re-blogging it (originally found on Shellhawk’s Nest): “Way back in [radio show] Hauntcast 27, I mentioned the strange Halloween-ish postcard I found in a local antique shop. Since I’m sure most of you thought I made it up, I thought I’d scan it and post it for you. To this day, [...]
Vintage Ephemera
Posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A great collection of authentic old Halloween images can be found at the Vintage Ephemera blog. Wonderful inspiration for decorating and art. I especially like the Kellar ads–see below. (Kellar was the predecessor to Houdini; he performed large-scale magic acts around the turn of the century.) Since the blog provides a database of all things [...]
Haxan: A Tribute
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Presented as a video research project, the 1922 Danish silent film Haxan explores the phenomena of witchcraft. It is also one of the first documentary films as we have come to know them today. The director, Benjamin Christensen, takes a first-person approach to his presentation; early in the film, a flash of his face appears [...]
