Goblin Stew

 I love to cook when I can. I make a lot of soups and stews. This one is a lot of mushroom, garlic, onion and whatever is available, which is why I call it goblin stew. 

October on the Brain

 I painted this during one of my painting classes. Sometimes the students do not need me much anymore and I start painting too. I did this in about two hours. Maybe a little less. It went home with one of my students. 

MONSTERS IN MY POCKET

 As a kid, Monsters in my Pocket series was a favorite. I am nothing if not consistent in my tastes. Each of these was based on the figure of the monster they  represent. Did you collect them? Which were your favorites? 

Snail Witch By Ethan Black

 Helabore Blightspur was quick to betray, even for a hag. When her coven had finally had enough of her backstabbing, they saw to it she would never be quick to do anything again. After transforming her into a snail like creature, they banished her to a fungal marsh. She is constantly seeking a way to restore herself and to get revenge on the other hags.

Gustov and the New Jar

 I have a brain in a jar named Gustov. (Who doesn't?) During an adventure, this, his once home had a little accident  while we were at Transworld. The jar was broken. Since then, I have tried and tried to find a jar like this one. No luck. So, I have moved him into a more squat jar and now the apparatus at the top doesn't work for it. I am now building a new apparatus and will post my progress soon. I just need a few more parts and a good electrical storm. 

Jacked Up

 I can't wait to carve pumpkins again. I did this one last year along with about ten others. Come on fall!

Emily loves Halloween

 SPOOKY STORY TIME: Little Emily was born to wealthy conservative parents. They were expecting a beautiful child. A normal child. They were deeply disappointed by her homely looks and patchy dark hair. As time went on and they got to know here, their displeasure grew. She was strange, played with bugs and was obsessed with dark and creepy things. She played with a mangy kitten that they could not seem to chase off. She begged to go out on Halloween. They could believe it, their child wanted to celebrate the Devils birthday. The las straw was when they found her drawing symbols in the dust and chanting. They had to be rid of her. They agreed to take her trick or treating, purchased her a witch costume and took her out of town so their friends did not see the blasphemous embarrassment. They slipped extra candy into her cauldron and let her eat as much as she wanted. On the way home, Emily got very sick and died before they reached the hospital. Well before. They managed to avoid suspicion and enjoyed sympathy from their friends and congregation. Blaming Emily's love of "devil things" for her death. The next Halloween they heard a very late knock at the door. They had never indulged trick or treaters and they were not about to start now, they told themselves... But the knocking continued. Enraged they flung open the door. There was Emily. Not in the white gown they had buried herein, but in her Halloween costume and far from alive. She grinned and held up her cauldron. Now full of putrid goo and swarming with all kinds of vermin that piled out as Emily's personal wave of vengeance. A few days latter, the maid found her.parents. ther bodies almost impossible to see for the swarming insects. Their horrified faces were unforgettable. Emily now haunted her favorite night, looking for others who need punishing. When she finds another child who has been killed while trying to enjoy Halloween, she adds them to her group of vengeful trick or treaters.

Prop, story and concept  by me, Ethan Black

Pumpkin Plague

When Jack first started the CRISPR lab in his garage, he planned to make the most prolific and fast growing pumpkin plant the world had ever seen. In that he was successful, but when he accidently injected himself with the plant DNA, he doomed himself to slowly mutate into the very plant he desired and now he mindlessly seeks others to infect with parasitic pumpkin plants. This Halloween will be the greenest the world has ever seen, and the most horrific.

(Story and concept by Ethan Black)

 

Return of the Spider Witch

 I have redrawn the spider witch. Which was inspired by my childhood horror sounds CD. A Night in the Graveyard.  I like this version a bit more. She is more creature like and menacing than the old woman crawling with spiders I created previously. Which do you like more? Why? 

Thank you, and stay spooky!

Ethan