Everyone’s making something these days, well, everyone but me. I’ll leave these types of activities to the professionals or highly motivated.

Etsy has put up their Halloween Trends gift guide. Please feel free to buy me anything that:

1. Has a skull or skeleton
2. Has a bat
3. Has a gravestone
4. Is scary, not cutesy

More Etsy stuff to buy me (remember the guidelines above).

Now get shopping!

For you DIYers out there…

Wayne of the Woods offers free coffin plans as well as other coffin bookshelf options.

Or for the lazy, you can buy this classic coffin online:

One of my favourite comic/graphic novel series is Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez. Mr. Vasquez, also the creator of Squee!, I Feel Sick, Fillerbunny, and Invader Zim, draws, or maybe spews is a better word, the black comedic horror-filled world of Johnny, a deranged serial killer.

I think we’ve all felt like Johnny at some point in our lives. Don’t even try to deny it.

View a full panel from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.

View a full panel of Happy Noodle Boy, a comic within the comic.

You can follow Jhonen Vasquez on Twitter or read his blog.

All images © Jhonen Vasquez and used without permission.

And the trees are stripped bare
Of all they wear
What do I care
-excerpt from October, by U2

It’s that wonderful time of year again and I thought I’d celebrate this month by posting a different scary/Halloween-y/October-y image each day.

I’ve started off the month with one of my own. If you are into cemetery photos you can find many more on my site.

Happy October to everyone!