Halloween Decorations: Chester

AS SEEN IN LAW AND ORDER episode “WRATH”

Chester is 5′7″ tall. He is emaciated with a gaping mouth and faces right.

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Halloween Decorations: Hammer Head Box

Significant price drop due to conversion to motor driven. Winston seems to be content despite decapitation and getting beat in the head with a hammer. What a freak. Read more …

Halloween Decorations: Dizzy Box

Head of your choice sitting and spinning with the gory framework. It just makes me want to vomit. Read more …

Halloween Decorations: The Satyrs’ Chief Was Silenus

In Greek mythology, satyrs (Ancient Greek: Σάτυροι, Satyroi) are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus — “satyresses” were a late invention of poets — that roamed the woods and mountains. In mythology they are often associated with sex drive and vase-painters often portrayed them with perpetual erections.

Mythology

The satyrs’ chief was Silenus, a minor deity associated (like Hermes and Priapus) with fertility. These characters can be found in the only remaining satyr play Cyclops by Euripedes and the fragments of Sophocles’ The Tracking Satyrs (Ichneutae). The satyr play was a lighthearted follow-up attached to the end of each trilogy of tragedies in Athenian festivals honoring Dionysus. These plays would take a lighthearted approach to the heavier subject matter of the tragedies in the series, featuring heroes speaking in tragic iambic verse and taking their situation seriously as to the flippant, irreverent and obscene remarks and antics of the satyrs. The groundbreaking tragic playwright Aeschylus is said to have been especially loved for his satyr plays, but none of them have survived.

Attic painted vases depict mature satyrs as being strongly built with flat noses, large pointed ears, long curly hair, and full beards, with wreaths of vine or ivy circling their balding heads. Satyrs often carry the thyrsus: the rod of Dionysus tipped with a pine cone. Read more …

Area families keep Halloween dead or alive!

Halloween enthusiasts are noticing that less ghosts and goblins seem to be lurking on the porches of Grand Haven area homes this October.

Sure, many families have a pumpkin on their porch, but what about those homes every trick-or-treater has to visit just to prove they dare?

“We used to drive around town and see stuff everywhere,” Robert Hartman said. “I haven’t noticed any in town this year except maybe a pumpkin or two.”

Maybe it’s because time and money are tight or maybe it’s because the kids are out of the house — but Halloween enthusiasts have noticed a shortage of ghoulish lawn ornaments as Oct. 31 draws near.

“There’s too much going on and people aren’t doing what they normally do unless they have the cash flow,” Laura Garland said.

Well, there may not be as many homes decked out with Halloween decorations in the Tri-Cities as past years, but some families still have Halloween fever. Read more …

Halloween Decorations: Shishka Bob Box

Bob severed head mounted on a rotisierre rotating and simmering on a grill. There is a red light underneath flashing reflecting off the gory head. Read more …

Halloween Decorations: Reaper Bowl Wall Hanging

This is a foam Reaper holding a bowl wall hanging. LED eyes are available as shown

24″ tall x 12″ wide Read more …