For your Halloween joy, I have gone back in time and brought you a selection of the finest Blingees and animated GIFs. May your night be full of fright!
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I feel obligated to share this every few years. It became semi-viral in 2011, and suddenly there was even a kit for putting rhinestones on a pumpkin.
Blingkin is long gone, as it got pretty ratty over the years. I think if I did it again, I’d have to do a whole bunch of them and light them well for a display. That would be pretty cool.
The second part of me ranking all the television horror in 1973 is up.
I’m excited for the next video, where I’ll be covering a very obscure 90s show, and making some very rare media available to the masses.
Into something a little more jazzy for Halloween? The Ragtime Chronicle has put together almost an hour of ragtime and old jazz Halloween music.
Ghost movies have always been my favorite. I’ve always preferred the supernatural to the slasher. Here, Possessed By Horror lists a bunch of ghost movies perfect for the season. Many of them are personal favorites. Get haunted!
About nine years ago, I posted the story of Madame Violet of the Edinburgh Vampire Hive. It had legs. I had to write a newspaper or two explaining that it wasn’t real. It got a Reddit thread, and made it to Snopes, though more as an adjunct to stories about the original image.
I made a video narrating the story. I took it down for a while, because I’m always re-purposing my YouTube channels, but I’ve put it back up again.
Boy, after listening, I really need to redo the audio on this.
I wanted to find a nice Halloween music video with no AI. This is how I discovered the before:XXXX operator in YouTube search. Handy! What I found will be familiar to gamers, but not so much to me. I love game music, so this is my Halloween jam.
Aiden Taylor loves Halloween. He specifically loves vintage Halloween. And he has the chops to realize his vision. Right now, he’s working on a Halloween costume ball, but I want to show you something from last year.
I absolutely love his vintage-inspired moon head costume. Also, Aiden himself is a lot of fun. You can follow him on YouTube and Instagram.
Elric of Melniboné is where fantasy meets horror. It was the prototype for so much dark fantasy, and heavily inspired works like The Witcher and Game of Thrones. But Michael Moorcock’s Elric was first.
He was an emperor of an evil land, but he had something of a conscience. Problem was, his sword, Stormbringer, had none. Elric was a wonderful brooding anti-hero, who thought deeply, cared passionately, and lost everything.
I read a ton of these books in the 70s, when I was definitely too young to be doing so. Eh, I turned out fine. Right? I also stopped reading in the 70s. I shouldn’t have. I just didn’t realize that Moorcock never stopped. Hasn’t stopped yet. There are a lot of Elric stories.
I only found out today, in fact, because of the video that inspired this post. Exits Examined, a favorite channel of mine, did a great essay on the history of Elric. If you are curious, I encourage you to check it out.
There are few tellers of true ghost stories that I enjoy. I want to like The In Between, but she just tells the most outlandish, unbelievable stories I can’t do it. But Peter Laws, ah, that guy can tell a damn story. The only reason I’m not subscribed anymore is because he started using AI images in his videos. If that doesn’t bother you, check out Into the Fog with Peter Laws.
Here’s an older story that I don’t think he used AI on. My memory is a sieve, and I might have forgiven him once or twice before it became a regular thing. But man oh man, this is great stuff.
