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To me Halloween about a lot more than dressing up in flammable costumes and gourging on little fun size candy bars. It is a very important holiday for me and the holloween season is about to begin...It would be hard for me to say exactly why all this means so much to me and some of it seems so unrelated...it's campy, it's macabre, it's serious, it's irreverant, it's blasphemous and deeply holy, it's ancient and it's commercial. Halloween is where I feel safe and happy and completely me.
Monster Box Set: Marvel Legends Action Figures Gift Pack
First to recommend
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Wolfman, Dracula, Frankenstein and the Zombie...
what else do I have to say?
Updated Oct 25, 2008
Beistle Halloween Decorations
First to recommend
2 people recommended this item
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The perfect decoration for your next satanic sock hop...These cardboard decorations are precise recreations of the originals introduced 50 years ago by party manufacturer Beistle.
Updated Oct 21, 2008
Halloween Yahtzee
2 people recommended this item
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Looking for a game for All Hallow's Eve? Are you just a fan of a good game of bones? Do you just really like Halloween the way I do and the idea of glow-in-the-dark dice with bats and haunted houses gets you really really really excited?
Don't believe me that this game is freakin' awesome? Just listen to the passionate and winning arguement put forward by the manufacturer:
"the Halloween Yahtzee game is the first and only game that allows fans to enjoy the shock, fun and excitement of Halloween with classic Yahtzee game play."
Hey, I'm sold buddy...
Updated Dec 17, 2008
Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes by Gris Grimly, Baby Tattoo Books
First to recommend
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My newest favoritist illustrator, Mr. Gris Grimly (I'm assuming "Mr.",...) has two volumes of morbid retellings of classic nursery rhymes of which this is the first...perhaps some of the parody is obvious but it is fun and wicked and reminds you of the verse of Mr. Gorey...the illustrations continue to be fantastic making me think that Mr. Grimly is the bastard son of Tim Burton, Chas Addams and Gerald Scarfe...
Updated Oct 21, 2008
Boris and Bella by Carolyn Crimi, Illustrated by Gris Grimly
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Quite honestly, I bought this book for the wonderful illustrations by the fantastic Gris Grimly. I bought it under the auspices that it was for our daughter but really it was for me. The scratchy inked lines with impressionistic washes of color are gorgeous but the greatest thing about Mr. Grimly's style is the unique ways he allows his free-flowing lines and splatters to abstract the figures...it is a style perfect for the subject matter - namely two monsters who live in Booville and can't stand each other because one is tidy and one is messy. The felix and oscar relationship, no surprise, blossams into love and friendship by the end but along the way, we are treated to all kinds of disgusting verse and fantastically rendered monsters and creatures. It is a great book, a great book for kids with nothing offensive or questionable (i feel)...but then again, I bought it mainly because I wanted to look at the illustrations while I read to our daughter...
Updated Oct 21, 2008
Cinderella Skeleton by Robert D. San Souci, Illustrated by David Catrow
First to recommend
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The perfect retelling of the classic fairytale for the little ghoul in your life. It is fairly macabre (she loses her whole foot after the ball when it snaps off on the stairs) and of course all the main characters are skeletons or corpses but the illustrations are whimisical enough and the rhyming verse silly enough that none of it feels threatening...
Updated Oct 21, 2008
Fantastik Plastik Mad Monster Party Skeleton Band Vinyl Figure by Funko
First to recommend
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From the Rankin and Bass Halloween classic Mad Monster Party comes a a goulish guitarist...I recommend the movie AND the vinyl figures...
Updated Oct 17, 2008
Dracula's Dragster
First to recommend
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Another reissue of a classic model kit, this time Dracula in a dragster...
but him and the wolfman and all the rest and you can have your very own little monster derby at home...
just don't be like the count. please don't drink and drive.
Updated Oct 17, 2008
Wolfman's Wagon Model Kit
First to recommend
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ooh ooh baby
i'm a kingsize werewolf...
it's not always bad being a werewolf. sure we're hairy on the night of the full moon...well, i'm always hairy but sometimes it's worse.
and, sure, we go through a lot of pants...
but we drive better cars and we listen to better music...
and we always get the girl. one way or another...
Updated Oct 17, 2008
Nightmare Before Christmas Pumpkin Jack Porcelain Doll
First to recommend
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I'm not going to entertain the idea that this needs any kind of review to convince you it is cool...
Some things just are and this ARE cool...
Updated Oct 17, 2008
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