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mass grave
Originally uploaded by Jon Glassett

Oh, the humanity!

Department 56's Halloween Village

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Originally uploaded by Jon Glassett

The photos of my Halloween Village display are up on Flickr. My mom went to great pains to set this thing up right & proper for the Pumpkin Massacre. She has a lot of experience from working with her massive collection of Christmas houses and it definitely shows. I've had a few pieces for a while now but they've never been set up quite like this.

I can't bring myself to take it down yet. I keep firing it up and staring at it.

Thanks, Ma!

2008 Halloween Photos Finally Posted

After some difficulty with Flickr the Halloween 2008 photos are finally posted. Well, most of them. There are still a bunch left to sift through, including some shots from inside the house and from the hours spent cleaning up the rotting jack o'lanterns yesterday. 

Not to mention a few choice shots from our inaugural Pumpkin Massacre, like this one right here:

You can view the pictures at this link.

More are on the way soon. I just need to work on them a bit.

I know, I know...I'm really bad about the pics this year. Sorry.

Another Haunt Teaser

I'm way behind on getting my pics up so here's another sample of the shots I took.

The rest need some reworking, resizing and stuff like that. I'm hoping to find time to do all of that on Thursday night.

Not to mention the fact that I still have to pull down the rest of the decorations and dispose of a couple dozen rotting jackos.

Update: Haunted Overload

Eric at Haunted Overload has been popping in since I started writing reviews of haunted attractions and has offered a couple of pictures of his work. These photos are great examples of the insanely atmospheric Haunted Overload. I hope you dig them.


Thanks for offering these, Eric. These shots are way better than my crappy camera phone pics.

Haunted Overload

The Dark Shift

Time has shifted. I drove home in the dark tonight, listening to Ulver's "Shadows of the Sun" and thinking of this old post. I love this time of the year.

The short days are depressing for a lot of people--and it gets to me occasionally, too--but for me it's always been something special to see that first day when the sky is black by 5 o'clock.

Here's to the longest nights.

Pumpkinrot's "The Hollowmen: Year of the Scarecrows"

Ho-lee crap...

You HAVE to see what 'Rot did this year. Totally blown out.

The Hollowmen: Year of the Scarecrows

As usual, a superb and disturbing yard display. He would probably never admit to this but Pumpkinrot routinely sets new standards for frightening and artistic haunts. I know that his work has been a huge influence on mine, at least, and I don't know of anyone out there in the home haunt world who can compare.

I mean, come on...

(Photo straight-up ganked from Pumpkinrot's site because I'm a spaz like that. Sorry.)

For my money, that's the creepiest little patch of front lawn out there.

Beksinski would be proud.

Keep your eyes open for more photos and a video this week on pumpkinrot.com.