In all the years of doing the Pumpkin Graveyard I have not seen pumpkins hold up this nicely after three weeks.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Vacation!
Vacation is here! Off to the desert refuge..
I am bringing my skull for photos but won't likely post here until I return.
Until then here's a spooky pic of Skillet enjoying the spooky leaves of November..
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| Skillet was having a blast trampling the huge pile of yellow and red fall leaves.. |
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The Horrific Faces of Tom Bagley
What a cool, colorful set of the faces of old late-night, oddball, horror favorites. I really love every one of these and I sure hope Tom fills out the set with many more!
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Pumpkin Graveyard 2012 - Day 6
Surprisingly spry and alert after nearly a week at the old guard post
November Jack
It was too tough to move on from Halloween this year so when our faithful "inside" pumpkin plummeted into moldy, saggy mess we opted to pick up a few new pumpkins at the local stand...
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Night Creatures
Day 4 of the Pumpkin Graveyard was a very creepy night visit.
Driving off-road through the woods in rural Tennessee in pitch black is an experience..
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
The Skyland Drive In
A little video I put together this time last year. I do not know of another example of pictures added to the old Skyland Drive In audio bits. Features a special version of The Creeping Cruds - Get Up and Kill.
Damn my tinnitus for making me not able to make more of these for a while..
Monday, November 5, 2012
New Deadites...
Just in time for the Jolly C-word... A heaping new pile of Deadites for your stitched neck. Packed with a pinch of Evil Dirt from The Evil Dead Cabin these pendants scream to be bought for your favorite boils and ghouls!
Visit EvilPumpkins.com for more gruesome details.. Here's a small sampling.
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| Boogers! |
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| Count Blu |
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| Frankentooth |
The Evil Dead Cabin
Take a last look at pics from my website EvilDeadCabin.com before it's updated with new Deadite/Evil Pumpkin details etc. As always, Evil Dead Dirt vials are FOR SALE.
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| The Evil Dead Cabin as it looked just prior to filming |
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| A genuinely creepy vibe overtakes you entering the property.. |
Pumpkin Graveyard 2012 - Day 1
28 of the 29 pumpkins made it to the graveyard this year. One jumped ship on the way and embarked on his own journey.
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| Sadly, the cold withering of this year's pumpkin leaves revealed approximately 20 baby pumpkins that will suffer a frosty demise. The summer was just too hot... |
And Red Leaves Blew....
This sequence of photos was taken from our back deck on the last day of Spooky's Haunted Yard.
The storm rolled in so quickly that I couldn't make it out front to secure stuff. Fortunately it was over as quickly as it came.
The storm rolled in so quickly that I couldn't make it out front to secure stuff. Fortunately it was over as quickly as it came.
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| The deck view is always outstanding for storm watching as you can see above the valley for several miles |
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| The storm rolled in in about 3 minutes |
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| And the winds exploded into a vortex of autumn leaves! |
Witches Gather...
PumpkinRot delivers again - even after taking a punch in the gut from Frankenstorm 2012.
I acknowledge that PR is my go-to source for unending, year-round Halloween visuals.. Look closely at the tree stump caldron. It's pure hand-made Hallowayoutness!
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| SOURCE: PumpkinRot 2012 |
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
ALL SOULS DAY - November 2, 2012
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding—
Riding—riding—
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
Pumpkins held up nicely for Night 3 as did the still weather. The one pic I'll post from All Souls Day..
Pumpkins held up nicely for Night 3 as did the still weather. The one pic I'll post from All Souls Day..
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| At sunset jets carved up the sky |
Friday, November 2, 2012
SAMHAIN - November 1st 2012
"It was the start of the year in our old Celtic lands, and we'd be waiting... in our houses of wattles and clay. The barriers would be down, you see, between the real and the unreal, and the dead might be looking in... to sit by our fires of turf." - Cochrane
The second night some placements were changed and some lighting swapped out - for a more orange overall look. The 6" blanket of red and yellow leaves did not survive the first night's crunching so they were cleaned out for Samhain..
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| He watches over... |
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| About an hour before the darkness |
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| green |
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| cold red heat |
HALLOWEEN - October 31, 2012
"You can get back in there and get back on that telephone and tell them exactly who walked out of here last night and tell them exactly where he's going." - Loomis
Halloween 2012 could very well have been a dreary, over-windy, soak-athon due to Frankenstorm but just at the right time the winds died and the candles were lit. A perfect evening of flickering jack-o-lanterns, green and orange mists, crunching leaves and bewildered kids, surprised at what vision they would find as they climbed the hill and broke through the trees to see Spooky's Haunted Yard.
The only difficulty was choosing the coolest photos.. For every one here, there are half a dozen unposted..
Enjoy Halloween Oct 31 2012 - Franklin, TN
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| Halloween! |
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| How many ghouls can you find in the fog? This photo is completely unedited. |
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The Green Ghoul returns! |
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| Look closely at the fog - ghouls in the mist! |
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| It doesn't hurt to have a cool, gothic door with a gated peep. |
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| Even Spooky was getting in on the fun.. |
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| The Bat Cage |
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| Bava would be proud.. |
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