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Now That’s A Pumpkin Festival!

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Keene Pumpkin Festival

With October, comes visions of fall leaves, apple cider and pumpkins…lots and lots of pumpkins. If your in the New Hampshire area in the month of October, you will find those visions a reality at the annual Keene Pumpkin Festival. This quintessential New England community hosts this awesome event each year. People in the town and surrounding area come to enjoy and take part in the yearly attempt at breaking the world record of amassing the largest number of lit jack-o’-lanterns in one place. They have held that record for many years. This year the festival will be held on Saturday October 19, 2013. Activities will include entertainment, food, treats, costume parade and of course the wonderfully magical displays of carved pumpkins for all to enjoy. Visit website

Monster Poster Art Prints

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Hello again! Hope you all had an enjoyable summer! I certainly did, but now it’s time once again to recognize the changing season and welcome in Fall. We will start off Countdown to Halloween with a super cool pencil drawing of some of the most recognizable faces of horror. Can you name all the villians in this monster poster? Might make for a great Halloween party game. This cool art poster drawn by illustrator Ted Bracewell will be sold as part of a timed-edition on sale beginning October 1st, 12:00 Midnight PT to October 15th, 12:00 Midnight PT. Each poster is $25 USD and 18″x24″. You can order your own copy here. To find out more in depth info on the artist and print, go here.

Monster poster

Ghostly Portraits

Decorations
ghostly portraits

In the age of Photoshop you’d have to look at any “ghostly image” photograph today with a discerning eye. But what about ghostly portraits from the late 1800’s. Clearly computers had not been invented, so photo fakeouts had to be achieved by other methods. Some people were great at photo image trickery, and produced convincing photos of ghosts. Some images were said to be real images of ghosts, although most people don’t believe that. Take a look for yourself at this website. They have a great collection of images from the olden days. Decide for yourself whether someone had captured proof of ghosts OR NOT!

Book Review: Massacred By Mother Nature

Books
Massacred By Mother Nature

During the 1970’s, there were lots of movies about killer animals, insects and arachnoids. This genre included lower budget films like Squirm (killer worms), Kingdom of the Spiders, and Ben (killer rats) as well as high grossing, successful films such as Jaws (1975). With the emergence of the nature-gone-amok genre, it became evident that any of God’s creatures could potentially become monsters. Finally someone has taken this genre and has broken it down for us mere mortals. Lee Gambin (a regular Fangoria contributor) has written a book called Massacred by Mother Nature in which he explores the subject of the natural horror film. He discusses films of the 50’s (Them!, Tarantula, King Kong), the 60’s (The Birds), and then catapults into the 70’s of which there are many films to discuss! The book is not an encyclopedia of movies, but instead is written in an entertaining and informative style. There are horror celebrity interviews, lots of great illustrations and movie posters.