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Could we love these homes anymore??

With so many people doing and covering haunts nowadays, it’s easy to get zzzzzzz, as it can be slow and repetitive. For anyone that is over another spooky scarecrow, or another evil witch, this is for you.

Here are some people, on a  certian street, who are doing something unique and fitting for the home and land on which they reside.

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A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages–a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve.

From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil channels Aeneas’s wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt, in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. From ballads and odes, to spells and chants, to dialogues and incantations, here is a veritable witches’ brew of poems from the spirit world.

follow that sign

Driving through California this time of year, as I’m sure in many other places throughout the USA, you always see really cool handmade advertisements for Pumpkin Patches from local farmers and the like. We at October Boys look forward to seeing what cool signs these pumpkin sellers come up with every year. Here are just a few from this year.

 

Mr. Bones always brings it!

hmmm we sense a Miss Pacman feel here...

This will get them!

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Sweet and Spooky Halloween Cookie Garland

Another project I made this year on my sewing machine for Halloween. I found the patterns for these adorable Halloween felt cookies in a holiday themed craft magazine at Barnes and Noble and had to try it. After making a sample of the candy corn cookie I decided that they would look so sad just sitting on the table so I added a little loop to the back of each one, laced some felted black ribbon through them all and turned it into a garland. It turned out so great that I might just hang it year around in my studio space.

 

 

What a sweet Jack-O-Lantern cookie. Such a nicely glazed top you have, and such intricate features you have...

it never had a chance.

 

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scare the pounds off

Science is focused on the really big-picture problems right now. Male pattern baldness. Dropped calls. The mystery surrounding the success of mediocre sitcoms and the failure of excellent sitcoms. And weight loss, as in, how to do it but not do it simultaneously. It's what you might call a paradox, or whatever. The latest and greatest scientific data dovetails nicely with Halloween totally not on purpose — people can lose a lot of weight if they just sustain significant jolts to the heart, like the jolts one might find, say, in really effective horror movies. That's right — people can lose weight just by sitting by and having the calories scared out of them.

A study of ten people who really need to see more horror movies revealed that the sudden, jolting scares in horror movies are very effective at raising a viewer's heart rate, which, in turn, helps burn calories (that is unless, of course, you've seen tons of horror movies and are hip to the medicine cabinet mirror gag). Researchers at the University of Westminster recorded participants' heart rate, oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output, discovering that the number of calories used increased by on average a third during scary movie screenings.

Obviously, scariness is a matter of taste, so maybe High Tension doesn't quite give you that jolt of adrenaline you'll need to actually burn any calories while you literally do nothing except blink and maybe smoke weed because why else are you watching horror movies all day in your bathrobe, hmm? The study found, though, that, on average, participants responded most intensely (calorie-burning-wise) to the following movies:

The Shining (184 calories)
Jaws (161 calories)
The Exorcist (158 calories)
Alien: 152 calories
Saw: 133 calories
A Nightmare on Elm Street: 118 calories
Paranormal Activity: 111 calories
The Blair Witch Project: 105 calories
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 107 calories
[Rec]: 101 calories

If you're a suggestible, easily startled person who has decided for some reason to lose weight but thinks dieting and exercise are for tools, then these movies will probably (almost definitely) do the trick. If you're not so suggestible, then maybe you should think about strapping a meat vest to your person, walking deep into the woods, and waiting for a friendly bear to scare you. You and the bear can then share a nice laugh over a hard-earned pot of honey.

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wow

jack shack

not recommended for protection against wolves.

halloween tree

I went to do some shopping recently and as I parked my car in the lot I had this eerie feeling that I was being watched. As it turns out, I was. Not by a lurking would-be murderer or thief, but by this spooky ass tree!