I’m not sure what’s more fun. Putting Kris in all her flamboyant glory into the niche of the Tree Demon and Frank N Furter, or treating the haunted temple as an office environment.
Posts Tagged Halloween
Today the Inktober Tupperware gave me the poser of doing a little know creature from Aztec folklore the Ahuizotl, a monster that I had first heard of from an episode of My Little Pony. I’d been curious enough to look[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I knew I had to do one vampire this month but I didn’t want to fall into the trap of doing Dracula or someone young and sexy so when I was doing the Inktober list I deliberately chose Count Orlok[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With the death of Christopher Lee earlier this year I finally was drawn to watching him along with Peter Cushing in Hammer Films Horror films’ versions of some of classic monsters. I’d been hearing about some of these for year[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To the best of my knowledge the whole schtick with the mirrors is exclusively western folklore… but I couldn’t resist the temptation to rip off the ballroom scene from The Fearless Vampire Killers/Tanz Der Vampire in the form of the spirit ball,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a bit of a pet peeve of mine for a while that in modern fantasy the troll has pretty much become just another word for ogre. And while in the original Scandanavian stories there are giant trolls who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well today I got another from the kiddy list… a scarecrow. Seriously though, I like scarecrows, though I have too much respect for crows to think they’ll ever work. There’s something a iconic about them that triggers fond memories of New[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Halloween
And this ends this year’s Halloween story! In hindsight I could have used another week for this but I think this being a rush job by the DMN covers for this. My one regret was I wasn’t able to fit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…