The Halloween Scare-All

So our first pumpkin is done, 2 more to go. I am thinking that next year I might do the same but rotating as Pac-Man munches, to give it a motion illusion.

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My Faincee is going to do a Tardis and an Adipose on hers. Mystery third.

I've suddenly got a hankering to reacquire the three Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark books. Of course, they must be the original versions with the creepy illustrations, not the tame new versions. Any ideas on where to pick these things up these days?

Chaz wrote:

I've suddenly got a hankering to reacquire the three Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark books. Of course, they must be the original versions with the creepy illustrations, not the tame new versions. Any ideas on where to pick these things up these days?

My wife had the same yen about 10 years; Amazon should have you covered - they never went out of print.

Finished RDR Undead Nightmare, which was good for $5 and for someone who loves RDR and zombies. Its two main mission modes get old quickly, so I'm glad it wasn't any longer than it was. If there was more variety, I wouldn't have minded more.

Been reading Creepy and Hellboy comics and having a great time with that.

I might do one of the Walking Dead episodes I got free via PSN+. It'll be my first exposure to anything Walking Dead related, which based on the Conference Call isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Free Neil Gaiman story? Check.

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Last time I put up the decorations I had children passing my house becuase they were too scared. I will be toning down the creepy factor this year.

This year I decided to do a uniqie pumpkin carving of a wine barrel that says milk on it and is wearable by my 7 month old.
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I didn't get to finish it, due to sick & PenCon, but here's our Halloween playlist:
http://open.spotify.com/user/bridger...

I'll be doing a party on Saturday, but I couldn't find an affordable costume tailcoat that fit. So I'll be wearing regular suit stuff for my Penguin costume. I also lack a prosthetic nose since all of them were witch noses with warts and such.

I'm curious if there's any place I can go to get stuff to easily make a button, and I can create a campaign pin for something like "Vote Oswald for Mayor" or some such.

So, I have to share my daughter's costume. She made this from scratch, BY HAND. She had a bit of help from my wife with the sewing machine. It's even cooler in person.

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Here's a spoiler in case you don't recognize the character:

DevilStick wrote:

So, I have to share my daughter's costume. She made this from scratch, BY HAND. She had a bit of help from my wife with the sewing machine. It's even cooler in person.

Nice!

Here's our 18 month old (not video game related, and she didn't make it herself (slacker))

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Great stuff, both of y'all!

Here's my fairy princess in her costume standing together with the best costumes we saw tonight. Costume made by wife. Can't really see it, but the wings as well as the wand glow in the dark.

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Fedaykin98 wrote:
momgamer wrote:

If you're tired of all female costumes being "sexy" something, take a look at HTTP:www.takebackhalloween.org

Admittedly, at first I laughed. Then I thought about my daughter in a few years. Okay. I'm on board now. :lol:

I'm with it too, although there's a certain irony in them including costume options for Rita Heyworth and Mae West, two of the most well known pinup girls from back when.

Clearly I was expecting the zombie candy apocalypse because we had no shortage of Trick-or-Treaters and my wife and I were still handing out vast hand fulls of candy up to the last doorbell ring. I really need to rethink next year's candy buying strategy. :/

AnimeJ wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:
momgamer wrote:

If you're tired of all female costumes being "sexy" something, take a look at HTTP:www.takebackhalloween.org

Admittedly, at first I laughed. Then I thought about my daughter in a few years. Okay. I'm on board now. :lol:

I'm with it too, although there's a certain irony in them including costume options for Rita Heyworth and Mae West, two of the most well known pinup girls from back when.

If you're going to go sexy, at least go with classy sexy. That was my take. One of my son's friends went as a bomber-nose pinup girl once using a bathing suit that had been her grandmother's and she really sold it. It was awesome. Not cheap and tawdry looking like the crap you see at the stores.

So in honor of the night we watched The Great Pumpkin. We live in an apartment so no candy handing out. Then some Twilight Zone.

We've been watching a movie a night for halloween this year. Started with Let the Right One In, then came Insidious, then Pontypool, and last night was The Last Exorcism. Hoping to watch The Thing tonight to finish it off.

KingGorilla wrote:

So in honor of the night we watched The Great Pumpkin.

I can't believe I'm going to post this, but here was my costume for a party last weekend.
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We went to pub trivia, where they also had a small costume contest. A handful of people were dressed up, including the wait staff. We got 4th place, missing 3rd by only 50 or 100 pts.

My 5 son loves minecraft. Scaling didn't go well with fitting so I had to scrap version one and redo it so it's not "correct" but he liked it and we found out that a lot of kids in the neighborhood play minecraft

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My wife also made the costume for our two year old.
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I've already started my October festivities by reading Mike Mignola's (Hellboy creator) Baltimore comics. They're about a 1916 monster hunter. More serious than Hellboy, and quite good.

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Ah yes, time for me to break out my monster movies and force my not-well-versed-in-film roommate to watch them.

I always love a great excuse to rewatch The Thing, or Gojira, or the Alien trilogy, or the Predator films, or Cabin in the Woods, or Army of Darkness, or...

I've been saving Cabin in the Woods for this month! Pretty excited.

Tanglebones wrote:

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Haunt. My. f*cking. Dreams.

I watch this to start my Halloween celebration:

I just finished reading the first story from the Shadows Over Baker Street collection. It was an excellent Neil Gaiman yarn that set a very high bar for the rest of the book! At one point near the end, my mouth literally dropped open.

Shadows Over Baker Street is a short story collection of Sherlock Holmes/Cthulhu Mythos mash-ups. Turns out there are several more collections that are Holmes meets Horror, like Gaslight Grotesqueries, but I doubt I'll need any of them this year.

I need to check out the new Sleepy Hollow show, which is appropriate to the season, as well.

I guess it's close enough to dust off the Halloween avatar.

Crockpot wrote:

I watch this to start my Halloween celebration:

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That is THE scariest thing have ever seen...

Also, avatar.