"In Slavic mythology, Kikimora is actually a house spirit that appears by making rumbles and producing chaos. It is mostly described as female humanoid, but also very often depicted with bird-like features"
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Saturday, April 30, 2022
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Friday, April 22, 2022
Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern
by David McCord
Mr. Macklin takes his knife
And carves the yellow pumpkin face:
Three holes bring eyes and nose to life,
The mouth has thirteen teeth in place.
Then Mr. Macklin just for fun
Transfers the corn-cob pipe from his
Wry mouth to Jack’s, and everyone
Dies laughing! O what fun it is
Till Mr. Macklin draws the shade
And lights the candle in Jack’s skull.
Then all the inside dark is made
As spooky and as horrorful
As Halloween, and creepy crawl
The shadows on the tool-house floor,
With Jack’s face dancing on the wall.
O Mr. Macklin! where's the door?
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Now Watching: "Why Matthew Gray Gubler Lives in a Haunted Tree House"
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Halloween 2021 Sketches
On the top right, you can see an unused design of an upside-down pelvis/spine/ribcage tied to a bindrune (my icon) |
I toyed with the idea of the Faceless Spirit having arms and a ribcage. I hadn't come up with a proper name for the haunt at this point. |
Victims beneath the tree were going to be accompanied by "Stubby", but I ended up tying him to a tree among the other corpsecrows. |
One more corpsecrow design and my concept for the little tripod lanterns |
(As usual, shoutout to Pumpkinrot for a lot of the inspiration for these props and associated fabrication techniques.)
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Listening to: All I Need
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Now Watching: Robert Eggers' "Hansel & Gretel"
A charming and atmospheric silent-film directed by Robert Eggers. This is an early film of his (2006) almost 10 years before The Witch. Its fascinating to see Egger's style begin to form here; it's clear to see how the aesthetic experimented with here eventually evolved into his period-horrors like The Witch or The Lighthouse.
Check out the full short below (26 mins)
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
The Scarecrow Project
Last year, I stumbled across a rather intriguing Instagram account:
There isn't much info or description on the page or its posts, but from what I gather, an individual made these amazing scarecrows and placed them in roadside fields and other rural locations. (Great Pumpkin Project-style) The posts' dates range from January 6th 2019 to March 2nd 2020. I haven't seen any activity since.
Some of the descriptions give dates of the placement (as far back as 2016), the location, and the date they were discovered removed or vandalized.
"Date Placed: August 7, 2016 Date Missing: August 8, 2016 Location: Busy Road, Open Space Preserve and Wetland" |
When I first encountered the account, my mind immediately jumped to Mr. Jones, a 2013 horror movie featuring a reclusive scarecrow maker who sends his sculptures to seemingly random people around the country. Many (most? all?) of the scarecrows/totems seen the film were designed and/or constructed by Pumpkinrot (he made 18 in total).
Indeed, some of The Scarecrow Project's pieces very closely resemble those of Mr. Jones. Just compare the below Scarecrow Project scarecrow (left) with one of Rot's (right):
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