First cold of the season. Claire to Aerin, and Aerin to me. Fun stuff. While my family continues to recover, here's some more fluff to fill my poor, neglected blog...
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Look at me! Did that scare you? ;-) Because it's pretty freaky, if I may say so myself. As much as I would like to take credit for this zombie effect, I didn't have to do any work to achieve the ghoulish look (unless you call clicking on some buttons "work"). So no, there will be no makeup tutorial. :-P What I can tell you is that you can easily do the same for yourself, or any other person's portrait. All you need is a Google+ account...
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If you do a Google Image Search on “creepy halloween costumes from the early 1900s,” you’ll be in for a special treat.
Not really. Because they really ARE damn scary.
Especially the ones of children. Geez, how can kids be so creepy??!
So don’t look below if you’re sensitive to nightmare-inducing images. You’ve been warned.
If It Were Stine is a Tumblr blog dedicated to reimagining classic horror movies, television shows, and video games as R.L. Stine’s popular children’s book series, Goosebumps.
Despite having been a junkie for the teen horror genre in my formative years, I wasn’t a big fan of R.L. Stine or the Goosebumps books. I thought they were predictable, contrived, and quite honestly, not that scary. (I was a bigger fan of the less-popular Christopher Pike.) However, I can’t help but admit that designer Theodore Holmstead-Scott and writer Jude Deluca have done a fantastic job of translating these on-screen horror classics to Goosebump-worthy book covers.
Here are my favorites. Be sure to read the back-cover synopses for the full experience!
The Shining:
Poltergeist:
One of the most memorable novels I have ever read is American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. (And in case you weren't aware, yes the movie is based on the book.) While the book is meant as a satire of 1980s American materialism, greed, and superficiality, the reader cannot help but be horrified — and transfixed! — by the narrator's description of his murders and the thought process that goes behind them. It's actually a great read for those who do not easily get queasy, or can appreciate genius in its various forms. When I read the book for the very first time back in my early twenties, I remember thinking that the author must have one sick mind to even IMAGINE these...
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