Gummi Metal – A Metal cover of the Gummi Bears theme. (Hat tip to WitchArachne)

Dracula Trailer – Official trailer for the new series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It looks fairly edgy for non-cable television.

Microorganism Named After Cthulhu – He’s…somewhat less terrifying than I’d always envisioned.

Halloween Manicures – A roundup of Halloween-themed nail treatments. The zombie/Frankenstein nails at the very bottom are simply hideous.

Dark Woods Chandelier – The shadows this chandelier casts turns the whole room into a forest. (Hat tip to Pensive Pumpkin)

Nightsong – Children’s book about an adorable little bat’s first solo flight.

Creepy Things Children Say – This Reddit thread is gold. There’s a similar one here. (Hat tip to Bonni)

Ultimate Deck – “Luxury” deck of playing cards which features a different piece of original artwork on each card. Lots of interesting, occasionally macabre, designs. (The gallery of images scrolls, which is not made obvious, so you can see more cards.)

The Alternative Limb Project – Prosthesis designers who offer unusual artificial limbs. The snake arm is especially interesting.

A Sublime Contagion – A discussion of the concept of “Gothic.” (Hat tip to Bruno)

Victorian Vampire Society – Etsy store with a few interesting vampire-related items, the most impressive of which is the coffin-shaped vampire journal.

Illustrate the Date – Artist Devin Hunt creates “save the date” caricatures of you and your betrothed, and will draw you as your favorite superhero or other fictional character.

12 Coolest Tattoos Covering Scars – The spooky tree is especially awesome.

Bizarro – I’d watch a movie based on this comic.

Spine Heels – Boots with vertebrae heels by DSquared.

Drop Dead Gorgeous – Splendidly weird gallery of photographs depicting Death By Snackfood.

Tortoise Cozies – Just in case you’re worried about your cold-blooded friends getting chilly.

Weeping Angel Cookies – Technically Whovian, but they’re also fine as plain cemetery sculpture, plus the same granite-look cookie dough could be used to make more conventional tombstone cookies.

Medusa’s Gaze and Vampire’s Bite – An exploration into “the science of monsters,” and why we both fear and sorta love them.

The Gown of Fea the Soul Weaver – Really interesting mixed-media garment/costume/thing, featuring felted human faces.

Nightmare Before Christmas Cake Balls – The level of detail on the little fondant toppers is just ridiculous.

Tattooed Skull Chair – Lovely chair by tattoo artist Scott Campbell.

Unbirthday Party – This Wonderland-themed setup has a lot of great ideas for any party occasion.

Strange Oaks – Cute little animated short which extols a town’s benefits to witches.

Evil Dead Cross-Stitch Pattern – Li’l Ash is adorable. (There’s a different design here.)

Halloween Scarf – Interesting felted scarf featuring a graveyard and a big spider. There are a number of other unusual felted items on the same site. (via Old Fashion Halloween)

Mythical Beast Travel Posters – Retro-look travel posters which advertise the mythical creatures of various destinations. These are available as prints and are completely wonderful.

Serpentine – Gorgeous book of snake photography.

Moonhallow Vintage – Spooky Halloween folk art. I adore the painted cupboard.

Celestarium – Striking shawl pattern based on a real star chart.

Edward Gorey’s Illustrations for War of the Worlds – Brain Pickings has a selection of illustrations. Although the original 1960 imprint is crazy expensive, it’s also available as a reprint.

Hover Sloth – Illustration by deviantART member bear65. I want a Hover Sloth.

Scar Makeup Tutorial – Fairly easy tutorial for making good-looking fake scars. (Although my personal preference has always been for Rigid Collodion for super-easy gnarly-looking scars.)

Jumping Spider T-shirt – One of those hyper-realistic T-shirts featuring an oversized jumping spider face.

The 6 Least Solemn Funerals Around the World – A roundup.

Release the Hugs – Sweet little Webcomic.

Harry Potter Birthday Party – Some lovely ideas, both for a party and also for Halloween decorations.

Knitmare on Elm Street – Instructions for knitting Freddy Krueger, Nosferatu, and lots of other weird little friends. Related: Knit Your Own Zombie, Super-Scary Mochimochi, and Knit a Monster Nursery.

Dinosaur Plant Markers – I quite like the idea of using cheap plastic toys as plant markers; it’d be easy to use spiders, bats, and skulls instead of dinosaurs.

LiarTownUSA – A Tumblr of Photoshopped hilarity.

Newlydeads – Cute little salt-and-pepper shakers that look like a skeletal bride and groom.

Spider Lapel Pin – Steampunky spider with a watch for a body and a taxidermy eye for a head. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this.

Noell Oszvald – Photographer who does really interesting, surreal, self-portraits. I love the raven/shadow one.

Numbers Stations on Twitter – I wrote about Numbers Stations a while back; I had no idea that there may be something similar going on with Twitter.

Dead Frog with Flies – a) There’s a classical painting of a stinky dead frog that’s attracting flies. b) A pair of contemporary artists thought it would be a good idea to digitally animate it. What is this I don’t even.

Day of the Shirt – Site which aggregates all of the “one-day T-shirt” sites (TeeFury, Woot! and so forth) onto a single page for easy perusal.

LastBreathe – Really interesting fashion design; I’m not sure what it’s made of–it appears to be plastic strips–but it looks like the model is wearing smoke.

Cuffs from Bodyline Ribbon – Tutorial for converting an overlarge Bodyline JSK bow into matching cuffs.

Oonacat – Etsy shop specializing in horns, ears, and “heelless hooves” for costumes. The demon hooves are indeed epic, but I have no idea how you’d manage to walk in ‘em.

Dungeon Maps – Some nicely-intricate D&D maps for your adventuring needs. Also I am amused to know that there’s a Tumblr blog called fuck yeah cartography!.

Tim Burton to Film a Biopic – Huh.

Witch’s Girl – (Third link on the page.) An entry in an interactive fiction competition. Pissy Little Sausages’ review makes it sound like a lot of fun to play.

Last House on the Left – Art installation featuring a streetful of miniature houses from horror movies (The Amityville Horror, The Birds, etc.)

Science Chamber of Horrors – The bizarre, uncomfortable, horrifying bits of science: Botflies and ancient biological warfare and so on.

Nenetl of the Forgotten Spirits – Intriguing-sounding indie comic series about a ghost searching for her family during the Day of the Dead.

My Precious Roommate – Single-serving site in which a grown man recreates the poses in baby pictures. I’m not sure if this is hilarious or deeply creepy.

Migration – Art exhibition featuring a slew of adorable little monsters.

Creature Cups – Handmade ceramic teacups with spiders and other creepy things lurking at the bottom.

The Steampunk Tarot – Pretty themed deck. You can see some additional card images here. (Hat tip to Cat)

p.s. – I’m going to be dragged, kicking and shrieking, away from the computer for a week. Due to the magic of advance scheduling blog posts will continue as usual, but if you email and I don’t respond I’m not ignoring you. (Or am I? Muwahahahaha.)

Not in Kansas Anymore – Roundup of interesting Oz-themed art.

Cthulhu Peeps – Various methods for turning marshmallow Peeps into eldritch horrors. If you’ve got some post-Easter Peeps still laying around, now you know what to do with ‘em.

50 Most Traumatizing Moments from Kids’ Movies – A roundup.

Ball and Claw Earrings – Neat vintage-y claw earrings (there’s a pendant available too).

Lovecraft – A small Etsy collection. I particularly like the grave rubbing and Lovecraftian Letters.

Fleshlight Freaks – NSFW! NSFW! NSFW! Fleshlight now has a line of monster-themed dildos and male masturbators, including “Frankenstein,” “Cyborg,” and…euuurghhh…”Zombie.”

Rev. Thomas Childe Barker and His Daughter – Bizarrely-posed photograph taken by Lewis Carroll in 1864. I have no idea what’s supposed to be going on here.

Muscle Skinsuit – Anatomical-print workout gear that makes you look like you’ve been flayed. It’s certainly…arresting.

Coloring for Grown-Ups – An “adult activity book.”

If Tim Burton Made Game of Thrones – Gallery of GoT characters drawn in a Burtonesque style.

Undead Teds – “One of a kind zombie teddy bears.” These are gruesome little suckers.

Cemetery Gun – Interesting old method for deterring grave robbers.

123D Creature – iPhone app that lets you design your own monster and then order a 3-D print. (Man, 3-D printers are going to change the world.)

Goth T-shirt – An amusing sentiment from Voltaire.

The Littlest Lovecraft – Kickstarter for funding a series of Lovecraft-themed children’s books. (Hat tip to Sally)

To This Day Project – Not goth, but quite worthwhile; a video about confronting bullying.

Cryptofloricon – Site which greatly expands the Victorian “language of flowers” to let you convey concepts like “you can’t handle the truth” and “it’s not you it’s me.”

Spooky Bat Pegs – Clothespins with bat wings. I saw these as a prototype a few years ago; I’m glad a manufacturer is finally making them.

LED Crystal Earrings – Neat little light-up earrings.

Hitchhiking Ghosts Papercraft – Really nice paper “quilt” featuring the Haunted Mansion ghosts.

The Horror Digest – “Where horror movies are watched, reviewed, and remembered.”

Pop-Culture Gargoyles – When this 15th-Century French chapel was renovated, it got some unexpected new gargoyes.

Frogwood Manor – Some fairly elaborate cross-stitch patterns. The Haunted Mansion stretching portraits are my favorite.

One Hand in the Grave Boots – Striking “zombie’s gotcher ankles!” design by Iron Fist.

The North American House Hippo – This was a Canadian PSA to help teach kids that not everything they see on TV is real. All that it’s done is make me desperately want a house hippo.

Octopus Tentacle Hat – This is one arresting chapeau.

How I Might Have Just Become the Newest Urban Legend – Not particularly goth, but funny, and the advice at the end is definitely words to live by. (via The Bloggess)

Sugar Skulls – A couple of gorgeous makeup/costume photos.

The Decoration of Houses – Project Gutenberg e-version of Edith Wharton’s 1914 book.

5 People on Etsy Who Are Clearly Serial Killers – Cracked makes a compelling argument.

Corseted Leather Top Hat Tutorial – This is gorgeous.

New Haunted Mansion Merchandise – Some nice HM-themed items. I particularly like the candelabra.

How to Fix a Bad Tattoo – :::giggle:::

Steampunk Icarus Wings – Expensive, but certainly lovely. An interesting DIY project if you’re good with woodworking.

8 Marvelous Miniatures – A roundup of offbeat miniatures. I love the li’l whorehouse. (Hat tip to Terri)

Insect Poop Tea – Man, I thought kopi luwak coffee was a bad idea.

Ammonite Fossil Skull – On the one hand, it’s a pity they carved up such a pretty fossil. On the other hand, it’s certainly a striking sculpture.

A Calendar of Tales – New, free short stories from Neil Gaiman.

British Museum Blog – I didn’t know the British Museum had a blog. There’s all kinds of neat stuff.

Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails – Interesting compendium of old-time mixed drinks and their history. This would be a fabulous resource for a period-themed cocktail party. (Hat tip to Kitten Herder)