Pumpkin Zombie Sculpture
A gallery of pictures of Ray Villafane’s incredible zombie pumpkin sculpture for the New York Botanical Garden.
“I’m Haunted Zippy, Who Are You?”
Cracked provides a list of questionably haunted items, including an evil Zippy the Pinhead doll. Who will have the heart to tell Zippy creator Bill Griffith?
A small moment of self-promotion…
I was a little surprised to find that the new online version of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is actually… encyclopedic! The entry on Challenging Destiny, for example, is really accurate. (Thanks Dave!)
John Carpenter’s Halloween
John Carpenter presents a series of Halloween videos on Funny or Die, from a short about a Cat-Thrower to one about Charlie Brown, Blockhead.
“This is a system gone utterly, gruesomely mad.”
Linda Holmes has some things to say about the madness of the MPAA rating “system.”
25 Horror Comics Proving Wertham Right (Not Really)
Over at Dork Forty, Mark puts up a gallery of harrowing pre-Comics Code horror comics: “In spite of Frederick Wertham’s claims in his legendary anti-funnybook screed Seduction of the Innocent, reading lurid comics featuring gruesome images of horror is cathartic, natural, and (most important) fun! For the whole damn […]
The Cultural Gutter 