Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water-rats;
There we’ve hid our faery vats,
Full of berries
And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim grey sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances,
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And is anxious in its sleep. Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams. Come away, O human child!
To to waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Away with us he’s going,
The solemn-eyed:
He’ll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal-chest. For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
from a world more full of weeping than you can understand.
Chocolate Skulls – Solid chocolate cast from a real human skull. A mere $120 plus shipping.
This Stuff Sucks – Roundup of weird vampire-themed merchandise. One of the items on this list made me laugh out loud. (You’ll know it when you see it.)
Baby Bats – I may have posted this photo before but I don’t care. Aaaaaawwwww.
A Very Grave Matter – Site which focuses on old New England cemeteries and burial sites. Lots of neat history and lovely photos.
Here’s a silly little project you can make if you’re feeling flirty: A simple coin purse that looks like it’s wearing panties. The tutorial is here.
The one I made as a model is fairly plain, but you could turn it into a thong by making the middle bit narrower, use see-through fabric or pretty lace for the contrast fabric, or add garters with a bit of ribbon. You could also make several in holiday-themed novelty fabric and change your coin purse with the seasons. Fun! Easy!
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Li’l Cthulhu is “a child-friendly way to introduce your little one to the traditions of the Old Cult.”
Meet little Cthulhu, who lives in the magic city of R’lyeh with all his friends, as you and your child embark on a fun and educational journey through the world of the Great Old Ones, meeting all kinds of new buddies from the Necronomicon along the way, from Azathoth to Yog-Sothoth! This series has won multiple awards and has been enthusiastically approved by the department of child-developmental psychology at Miskatonic University.
This needs to be a feature-length film immediately. Somebody call Disney.
(Hat tip to Kitten Herder, who finds the most ridiculously awesome stuff.)
The Fabulous Miss Doxie is a Halloween-decorating fool, as she explains:
People, I love Halloween with an unrestrained passion. My love for Halloween is Not Normal. Nobody in my family knows where this came from. We are the kind of family that carves a pumpkin, MAYBE two, and that is all. We do not fuck about with spiderwebs and mood lighting. We open the door, dole out a Three Musketeers or a Snickers, and that is the end of the matter.
But something in my genetic makeup was dissatisfied with that arrangement, and somehow, y’all, I have become…I have become That Person who feels the need to decorate the everloving HELL out of her house. I am That Person who BUYS those full-sized skeletons, hanging witches, and packages of fake spiderwebs. I am That Person, and That Person is me, and together, we are a nutbag.
She recently posted some photos of this year’s decorating efforts to Flickr, and oh I am passionately in love with this side table. It is, obviously, meant to be just a Halloween decoration and I’m sure that something a little less unusual occupies its depths during the rest of the year, but holy crap I want this table year-round. I think it’s because the bones look real instead of fakey-plastic, and they’re so artfully arranged and look so elegant on top of the dirt. The dirt-and-bone color scheme matches the shabby-chic distressed paint on the table nicely, too.
The bones have enough of an archaeological-dig feel about them that they’re interesting rather than disturbing; a coffee- or end table decorated like this would be an amazing accent piece in an otherwise mainstream room. Lovely!
How amazingly cool are these? Martha Stewart recently posted a recipe for “invisible lollipops” made of uncaramelized sugar syrup, and Forkable decided to turn the same recipe into clear “glass” specimen slides.
The inspiration was the Showtime series Dexter, whose serial-killer hero saves droplets of blood from all of his victims, but these would be wonderful for any kind of mad scientist- or biohazard themed party. Make yellowy-green splotches and claim they’re blood samples from zombies, or use reddish-purple for extraterrestrial Blob specimens.
The blogger had trouble finding a wooden slide box, but they seem to be available fairly cheaply here, here, or here.
I’m quite impressed with how realistic these look. They’d be a real novelty at any kind of science-themed gathering, and you could even add a little mint flavor and offer them as after-dinner “mints” at a blood-themed dinner party.
Since that first morning when I crawled
into the world, a naked grubby thing,
and found the world unkind,
my dearest faith has been that this
is but a trial: I shall be changed.
In my imaginings I have already spent
my brooding winter underground,
unfolded silky powdered wings, and climbed
into the air, free as a puff of cloud
to sail over the steaming fields,
alighting anywhere I pleased,
thrusting into deep tubular flowers.
It is not so: there may be nectar
in those cups, but not for me.
All day, all night, I carry on my back
embedded in my flesh, two rows
of little white cocoons,
so neatly stacked
they look like eggs in a crate.
And I am eaten half away.
If I can gather strength enough
I’ll try to burrow under a stone
and spin myself a purse
in which to sleep away the cold;
though when the sun kisses the earth
again, I know I won’t be there.
Instead, out of my chrysalis
will break, like robbers from a tomb,
a swarm of parasitic flies,
leaving my wasted husk behind.
Sir, you with the red snippers
in your hand, hovering over me,
casting your shadow, I greet you,
whether you come as an angel of death
or of mercy. But tell me,
before you choose to slice me in two:
Who can understand the ways
of the Great Worm in the Sky?
Haunted Game Cafe – This shop sells all manner of spooky board- and card games. It looks like a great place to pick up a unique party game or gift. (Also it makes me deeply happy to learn that there’s a game called “Call of Cowthulhu.”)
13 Tombstones – Pictures of the original tombstones in Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion wait area, along with an explanation of who is honored in each one.
Bat Beauty – What appears to be a flying fox being groomed with a toothbrush. Presented without comment. (Well, presented without comment by the blogger. My own personal comment is “WTF?”)
Here’s a silly little project you can make if you’re feeling flirty: A simple coin purse that looks like it’s wearing panties. The tutorial is 
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