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The last place I expected to see a horror story about an old hag that kills kids with a hatchet is a cough drop ad from the 1950s

I like to think that Jack Skellington never actually finished reading A Christmas Carol. Otherwise he would've understood what Christmas was all about much better, I think- that story's like a textbook for the Christmas spirit.

Or maybe he was too distracted by the ghost stuff.

New autumn-themed album

Mayor Wolfman from the Cyberchase episode "The Halloween Howl".

It was certainly interesting recreating that early 2000s digital art style using modern Photoshop tools. Out of the toony backgrounds I've done so far, this one was definitely unique.

Plague Doctor Witch Reaper Ghost quick sketch for Halloween

Great. Another awful format update.

There's no excuse for a kid to not wear a Halloween costume. I've heard people say they're too expensive, but it doesn't have to be store-bought. It used to be that all costumes were homemade.

You can go as a cliché bedsheet ghost, wear your parents' clothes, even a put a paper bag over your head and call yourself The Phantom of the Opera... I don't care.

If one of your parents has a makeup kit, just use that.

One year I cut a bunch of holes in an old bedsheet and went as Charlie Brown after "having trouble with the scissors". Nobody got the joke, but I got candy anyway.

Besides, some costumes only cost a couple of bucks. The Dollar Tree around the corner from my house has cheap plastic masks and accessories that are under five dollars.

People are making excuses for laziness and lack of imagination. And on top of that, WHY would you ever WANT to go without a costume?? It's half the fun of trick-or-treating! If you show up without a costume and ask for candy- especially if you're a teenager- what that says to me is that you're only in it for the candy, and not the spooky stuff, and that you're just being greedy.

This isn't some anti-poor thing either. I'M poor. And yet if I really wanted a new costume, I wouldn't lie around and bemoan my inability to get one- I would look through my closet for old clothes, consider using something made of cardboard, anything at all, because I would feel embarrassed, even ashamed, to go out there and not wear one.

If my parents for some reason refused to get me one, I would fight for it. I would whine and complain. I'd rather stay home than not wear a costume. I would do anything to wear a costume.

So maybe if you don't care to have the complete Halloween experience, maybe you don't want it badly enough.

The history of Baphomet is so absurd and stupid.

In all likelihood it's a corruption of "Muhammad" during one of the Crusades, which would mean it stems from some idiot Islamophobe. In any case, it's a fake name for a fake god that the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping, after they were forced to confess after being tortured.

Then some crackpot occultist, Éliphas Lévi, centuries later, makes up some fake history behind him, invents what he looks like, and gives him attributes he didn't have before.

Then Satanists and right-wing Christians decide that he's a demon of some kind, adding even more fake attributes to an already fake god, which have nothing to do with Lévi's version, just because he looks vaguely like Satan.

That said, I think he looks cool, and there's no real reason to not use him in supernatural horror fiction. I know I intend to. But there's no reason to think he's even remotely real.

Newly rereleased album of spoopy tunes in a variety of styles. The tracks are short, but there's a lot of them, so it's suitable to play on a loop for your haunted house or your Halloween party.

I've created a method for writing pastiches of The Shaggs, but making it sound intentional and cohesive.

1. Use one of those sloppy J Dilla type beats, but on a cheap sounding acoustic drum kit 2. Detune your guitar slightly 3. Write your melody and strum chords using polyrhythms, such as 5-against-4 or 7-against-4

Taking place in the same universe as Jack & Ellie (an indeterminate number of centuries in the future), Midnight Town is about Darby the werewolf, Gerrard the gargoyle, and Brandywyck the goblin, who get into crazy and scary adventures of supernatural mysteries and paranormal investigation. Unlike Jack & Ellie, Midnight Town goes beyond European fairy tales and myths, taking inspiration from classic Gothic horror literature and movies, mythology from all over the world- including ancient Egypt and Japan- and of course the spooky comedy of The Addams Family, The Munsters, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Disney's Haunted Mansion, Scooby-Doo and Ghostbusters.

Darby comes from a long line of werewolves, and is a direct descendant of the Irish werewolf Wulver, so he's in werewolf form even during the day. Gerrard, like other gargoyles in this universe, can turn into stone at will. Brandywyck is an inventor and a chemist, creating the gadgets that help them solve mysteries. We also see Darby's girlfriend Clementine, a bookish, well-read werewolf whose family was cursed to be permanent werewolves generations ago, similar to Darby, but she's perfectly okay with it.

Frankly, unshelled sunflower seeds are the dumbest, grossest snack food I can think of. I grew up seeing kids spitting them out all over the place and shells all over the ground. I've never understood why you'd want to eat a food where you spend more time and effort maneuvering it around your mouth than actually chewing, tasting, and eating it. And you're telling me that the flavoring is on the inedible shell, not the seed itself? Why on earth would anyone enjoy them like that? Nobody puts the flavoring on peanut shells.

Wondering if I'm slowly turning into one of those mad 19th century poets/musicians who get bouts of depression and sickness for no discernible reason

As you can probably guess by the dates above, this has been a very long time coming. Even cleaning the scan in Photoshop took forever to finish because of how badly smudged the drawing had become. I actually had to restore a few details with my tablet.

So these two originate from early concept art made for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, back when there was supposed to be seven weasels as a sly reference to the seven dwarfs. You can probably guess why they ultimately ended up scrapping them- they're both kind of gross when you think about it for more than a second.