Necrotic

Some new zombie, mummy and a Swamp Thing hand pens up for sale over on my etsy shop!

Carvin'

Saxon or Viking Knives by Greg Glasby of Living Iron Forge on etsy, home of some very beautiful stabby things...

Fresh Harvest

I just listed a whole bunch of brand new eyeball pens...
Check 'em out on my etsy!

Twisted Treasuries #17: Deck the Halls

I'm not sure what this week's Xmas-y title has more to do with: decor or the fact that with a week and some change away from Christmas I'm ready to deck some corporate faschists right in their fat little halls. All I know is, after the last few days there's no place I'd rather be than at home slapping some oddities on the fronds of a holly jolly, Hallmark-esque hot pink evergreen and browsing etsy for handmade treasures instead of sweltering under piles of mass-produced and overpriced trendwear...

Bah to the humbug, time to deck the halls with horror. It's all pretty self-explanatory so let's get this treasury in the history books!

I've never been a fan of gingerbread-- during the holidays or any other time. This ornament however changed my mind. Just two of five (frankly unexpected) zombie ornaments presented by Dana K, these in particular make me want to get one of those gingerbread kits and go all out Blackthorn on that mofo. I want a tree full of zombie gingerbread dudes now. Nestled in all that piney goodness with string or several of dried cranberry guts-- bedlam and viscera all the way round!

by Water Penny

Dance Sippy Dance makes yet another triumphant appearance! Currently this little monster tree-boogers are sold out, but they could appear again. I love their grins. That's what these crazy ole holidays should look like.

by dancesippydance

It's hard to choose which of these classic Santa ornaments with their snazzy zombie makeovers should come home for the Twisted Tanenbaum holidays. They're all fabulous. Admittedly there are two that should be making their merry way via the demented little elves that make up the postal service, as I type. Momsy and I decided to get one for The Brother and fams tree (aww! look at me thinking of others. guess I have a soul after all). The other will deck my cars dashboard. There's no doubt of the merriment of this disarticulated Father Christmas will bring!

Psst! Currently you can get 10%off too. Just be sure to pay attention to the shop announcements for the code. 

by SincerelyTwisted

 

 

Killer Care Bears. Zombie piggy banks. This guy. There are many beautious dead things to behold within the virtual confines of Undead Ed's online store, this ornament caught my eye. Then it sold. My tree just isn't going to look right without it this season. Oh well...

This one's cute too...

by UndeadEd

 

 

 

Tell me this isn't the face of someone who worked and worked all year at being good and still got a chunk of Christmas coal in his stocking. How cute and Christmased-out does this little guy look? The pumpkins Vanessa made are what initially drew this shop into my etsy searching scope, but I'm pretty sure I'm in love with all the moody little creatures lurking about. Seriously, stop by and check 'em out.

by TheGrayCafe

 

 

If I were to buy this ornament I would be tempted to get its own evergreen to dominate and make a man-eating Christmas tree the centre of my holidays. It's Little Shop of Horrors meets Christmas Vacation with that squirrel paw hanging out of its mouth. Again, comes my inner struggle with taxidermy, cause, yep, that's a real paw this Audrey II bauble is gnawing on.

by CarnalBarker

 

 

 If I ever wanted to fulfill my role as a good aunt to The Brothers spawn I'd sit her down and with cookies and cocoa close at hand, we'd make an army of these ornaments together. Nothing says bandage, er.... bonding like making undead ornaments with Aunty Blackthorn. ;)

by blueyeduckstudios

 

 

There's really not much to say about these lace skull ornaments. Their amazingness is quite apparent.

 Actually, I'll take just about all the ornaments Natalie has available.

 

by PhoenixThreadworks

 

 

Oh my gosh! We forgot about the reindeer!! How can you have Christmas without flying fawna?

by CoyPowers

 

 

 

And of course, what proper Twisted Treasuries tree trimming would be complete without Cannibalistic Candy Canes?

by auntydonut

 

 

That's one devishly decked out Douglas Fir fantasy, no?

Hark those harolds, kids, there's no escaping it. Christmas is almost here....

 

Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to spend the rest of the Christmas crunch crazies watching Scrooged and discovering the true meaning of Christmas, which of course, as everyone knows, is getting beaten upside the head with a toaster by Carol Kane.

 

 

Pinhead

Pincushion Doll by Mercury Rusting

Twisted Treasuries #15: The Collection Edition

The Collection embarks upon the world today via theatres. I absolutely adored The Collector, which came out of nowhere a few years back to delight me on DVD. Another movie I actually thought about going to the movie theatre to see... but then I remember all the little gross things I learned about movie theatres while working in one in high school and the old lady germaphobe in me attacks and tells me to save my health and my money, stay home and watch the original 5000 more times till its sequel hits a rentable format.

 

I still may try to see it. Even if they ARE feeding it to the world via its relations to the one trick magical horror pony SAW (II-VI to be critically exact on that statement... I loved the original. Sequels? Not so much) and the trainwreck that was Insidious.

Anywho, in honor of  The Collection's release, this week TT indulges the knick-knack obsessionals that make up my own collections-- as bloodied and battered as any of the collectors victims...

This is probably a huge duh, but I love skulls. Of all sorts. Living in a heavily wooded wing of suburbia one's privvy to finding all sorts of woodland leftovers in their backyard-- empty sun bleached turtle shells, deer skulls, an entire intact skeleton of a mole. All nice editions to the family curio. Having said all that, it's pretty rare that I buy the real deal. Good thing this little guy is a replica... I always wanted a kitten. I'd love to find this one in my stocking this Christmas.

by CatalystKoi

I'm pretty sure we've covered my affinity for weird dolls. Yes? Pigs too? Check. Well, then this little guy should be no surprise.

by CrackedBrainCreation

I went through a lawn gnome and pink flamingo phase a couple of years ago. Gnomes are all the right kind of creepy, but mostly around my neck of the woods people just think of them as lawn junk instead of lurking little pointy-hatted lumps of doom. Chris and Janes zombie lawn gnomes would change all of that. And, bonus! Maybe even get them to quit griping about our lawn...

Actually, forget the lawn. I need this for my car. Like pronto. She collects trinkets too.

by ChrisandJanesPlace

A little Junker Jane soothes the soul, lemme tell you. I love her rag dolls. This Monster Frankenstein would look so at home with Monster Emma, Petal and Witch Malyss. If only he wasn't on reserve!!

by JunkerJane (duh)

 

 

 

This would make a great background piece for all my tooth fetish paraphenalia.

by LipglossAndLemons

Jewelry counts as a collection right? Silver and skulls are what you'll find at the heart of mine. For that reason I love Jewels Vine's shop. I've had my eye on this skull charm for awhile now. But any piece would do! Especially the various skeleton keys charms.

by jewelsvine

OHMYGOSH I love the oddity of gas masks. They're creepy, industrial and more varieties exist that you would think. I would love to add this to my modest little vintage collection. If you want odd and old, oddacious is etsy gold!

via oddacious

When I was a kid, we'd spend spring break in the Shenandoah Valley. There was a little store called Tuttle and Spice that had a wax museum and curiousity corner and in one of the rooms was a taxidermied squirrel on a branch with a cigarette hanging out of it's mouth and a bottle of booze cradled in its paw. That squirrel was the main highlight of the trip for years and years for me. As a result, I have a love/hate/disgust relationship with taxidermy. I don't actually collect it because it real life it freaks me out to have, what used to be a living animal, stuffed and staring at you glassy-eyed from a bookshelf. I think it's borderline disrespectful to the animal too, especially a little piece like this, BUT at the same time that twisted freak of a little Norma Bates girl in me (with the West Virginia outdoorsman genes I got from my Dad helping her along) can't get enough of it, so we add it to that little secret stash of a collection in my imagination, that little girl and I...

by ZombieTentacles

I could totally see myself starting a faux taxidermy collection. These miniature mounts aren't technically the fuzzy kind of taxidermy I mean, but they'd be great first additions. In all truth I could make a collection from any of The Rogue and the Wolf goodies or art from its sister store HidenSeek.

 

by TheRogueAndTheWolf

 

by HidenSeek

Of course if you don't have a collection, but you have the means and motivation to acquire one, you could always go for an instant curio collection, like this one from aldetha. I know I wouldn't mind it (parrot excluded), or any of the oddities stuffed into this shop, myself. From curios to prosthetics, antique coffin plates and taxidermied owls, this is quite the impressive etsy vintage and antique shop! 

via aldetha

So what kind of curios get your cabinets amped up collection wise?


Don't forget to at least check out The Collector on DVD (blu-ray, laser disc...whatever)-- I believe it's also available in various parts on youTube at the moment. And if you see The Collection, lemme know what you thought!
Let's hope it doesn't suck...

The Collector TRAILER
The Collection TRAILER


By the way, did you know if you click the pictures they take you to the etsy listing? Well. They totally do.

Twisted Treasuries #14 : The Black Friday Crazies

Behold! The Season of Wants has decended upon us. As I'm going to be working the better part of Black Friday wading through the retail bulk of it on the front lines, marveling at how far some manage to stretch their credit, I figured why not feast of a huge helping of Black Friday dreamburgers and endulge the craziest of my own wants? They say Christmas time is for big wishes and big miracles... so besides world peace and a corporate conglomerate to swoop in and save the Twinkies I'll gladly accept the following this Christmas:

 

A handmade Bates mansion miniature scale replica? You bet! And you better believe I'd shell out the bucks for Norman and "mother" figures to go with it. Course, right now all I could afford are mother and Norman, but since this is a big dreamer list, the whole lot of Haunted Construction Co. models will do for me, thanks.

I have an odd relationship with spiders. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Art pretty much did me in trauma-wise when I was little and I'm pretty sure half the population of them lurking in the house has plots to kill me. Then, on the other hand I have two lovely Tarantulas (Chunk and Toona) and a random spider jewelry goth fixation. Now I love this necklace, but my overpracticed imagination tells me that the spider the web was taken from is about to go Death Wish on anyone and everyone that had anything to do with the erradication of it's home in the name of wearable goth art. Oh well... I'm rich today. I can hire spider body guards.

by dollybirddesign

 

 

Portrait of the Crypt Keeper? Check. I'd hang it in my mansion in one of the many guest rooms over the bed. Weird? Who cares I'm eccentrically rich! And for that reason alone I'll take all the other portaits for the other rooms as well. Mwuahahaha....

by Haunted Hallow

 

 

I can't even begin to tell you how long I've lusted after one of LucyGuys full fetal skeletons or the conjoined twin replicas. All daydreams aside, I think if I won the lottery these would be the first thing I'd snap up...

 

by LucyGuy

 

 

That's quite the small fortune in an of itself.... Don't wanna be too greedy. Really, I'd settle for a new mattress this Christmas. What's your ultimate want this Xmas season? 

Twisted Treasuries #12: Naughty Little Pumpkins

Halfway through the "carving" of a dozen innocent pumpkins with a hammer last week for Hallowcane Halloween 2012, I had a pretty goodly amount of guilt settle in for all the pumpkin guts I'd spilt. It's silly, yes, and maybe I just watched Trick 'r Treat one too many times in the days leading up to Halloween, but I imagined the spirits of the pumpkins reanimating their eviscerated husks, coming back to haunt me that night and exact their revenge in innumerably horrible, twisted, gore-fest of ways. 

As if that weren't enough, there's been two weeks of Twisted Treasury silence!

 

Man, I've really been playing with fire... 

 

This week Twisted Treasury is all about the vengeful pumpkin spirits that are biding their time, lurking in the shadows, waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce in the wake of the Great Pumpkin Massacre of Hallocane 2012....

If it's cute and conniving your after to mimic my paranoid nightmares, you have to know pinkytoast is going to have to be included.

by pinkytoast

Can you imagine this thing chasing you down a dark alley? Lifesize or just how he is in miniature, it's pretty menacing either way. I'd imagine he'd have a high little cackle that'd reverberate around your very soul.

Worse yet? He has friends!!

by spunoncotton

Meatspider has a ton of shady pumpkins rolling out of his studio, but the "face" on this one really sticks with you. And then it gnaws on yours...

by MeatspiderStudios

I'm not sure what this guy is up to and I'm not sure I want to. At first glance he looks harmless enough, but I don't know. I don't trust him.

by spectralspark

This guy just makes me feel guilty no matter what. He has that "mom look". Know what I mean?

by TheZenFrog

 

These are just flat out creepy. In a good way, yes (what on this list isn't creepy in a good way?!) but still hella creepy...

by needlinaround

 

 

See the rest of the treasury HERE.

 

If you don't hear from me for a while, you know what happened... ;)



Chubby Halloween House

by fishstikks on etsy