Learn How To Protect Yourself From Zombies

Zombie Party II (Image: Chris Walters)

Bringing you information to help you survive the inevitable zombie uprising, promoting awareness and defense techniques, Zombies Are Coming is a useful site for everyone from the undead neophyte to the already-stockpiling-canned-goods-and-ammunition veteran.

While it is a relatively new site, it also is a timely one!

Special features to look for…

(Image: Chris Walters)

October 29, 2007 | Filed Under Zombies | View Comments 

Feel better about your weak upper body strength by fighting off a swarm of tiny zombies

ms_glowindarkzombieplayset.jpgThis playset of tiny zombies is so cute you want to scoop them up and suck their brains out like the cream filling from a Cadbury’s egg. The package comes with 8 tiny zombie figures and 1 tiny zombie dog, which gives you enough figures to organize your own little zombie infestation tableau on your work desk, home desk, bookshelf, etc.

They also glow in the dark, so you can put them somewhere bright and then turn off the lights for your own irradiated zombie scene!

We suggest you buy the “Terrified B Movie Victims” playset from the same manufacturer, so that you’ll have a group of victims to intermingle with the zombies. Grab some of those Christmas Village playsets your mom insists on collecting and you can make your own Halloween Table-Top Village.

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Glow-in-the-Dark Flesh Eating Zombies Playset at BaronBob (Price: about $13)

October 15, 2007 | Filed Under Decor, Shopping, Zombies | View Comments 

Experience the terror of a Muppet haunted house story

ms_muppetfozziegonzo.jpgWhat happens when Muppets spend the night in a house chock-full of ghosts and monsters? Why, they wear out their welcome, of course! These scans from a 1980s book, posted over at BrandedInThe80s, feature some weirdly drawn versions of Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest (Kermit seems kind of middle-aged and pensive throughout), but the story is still amusing and captures that irreverent outsider-vibe that the Muppets were so good at celebrating.

The best part, as usual is Gonzo—in the very first panel he’s already hitting on his chicken lover, and later in the story he reacts to a ghost with his usual blend of fearlessness and enthusiasm.

Halloween, Muppet Style… [Branded in the 80s]

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October 14, 2007 | Filed Under Arts & Entertainment, Comics & Graphic Novels, Funny, Halloween | View Comments 

Keep in touch with witch coven postcards

ms_witchcovencards.jpgCreate some memorable customized Halloween cards this year with these black-and-white, retro photographs of a “witch coven” from England! Comes in a postcard (the full table shot) and a handsome notecard (the close-up of four).

They’re cheap enough that you can cut them up for other cards, or just sign them and mail them out by themselves. We also think one would look nice in a modest frame in the kitchen or bathroom, but that’s just us.

Witches Coven Cards at Gorey Details (Price: about $1 each)
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Table of Witches Postcard

October 14, 2007 | Filed Under Halloween, Shopping | View Comments 

Makeup options in the 1970s

ms_imagineeringvampiremakeu.jpgThe person over at The Imaginary World clearly has much better OCD traits than me, and has put together an entire page of the Halloween make-up products that were sold at stores like TG&Y, Walgreens, and Kmart in the 70s and 80s. I practically lived on the tubes of fake blood (you had to snip the tip open with scissors, and the blood was semi-transparent, like corn syrup) and sticky, fibrous scar stuff.

Later, I realized I could get similar effects in the off-season (when these weren’t on sale) by using Elmer’s glue, my mom’s peel-off Avon facial mask stuff, and lots and lots of makeup, powder, vaseline, and food coloring. But every October, I’d look forward to seeing the aisle of Halloween supplies and begging for some cash for a new set of teeth or a new tube of blood.

Although I didn’t pay attention at the time, I see now that the packaging is amazing—all hand-drawn illustrations and lettering in a style similar to the Schoolhouse Rocks look.

Caution: Nostalgia Trigger! If you’re over thirty, chances are these photographs will blast you back to your childhood faster than you can down another shot of bourbon and regret the choices you’ve made in the years since. That’s how it works for me, at least.

October 12, 2007 | Filed Under Halloween, History | View Comments 

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