It’s Alive!

For #100DAYSOFHALLOWEEN HAPPY– Frankenstein

In 1910, Edison Studios released the first motion-picture adaptation of Shelley’s story.

Henry Frankenstein: Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive!

Victor Moritz: Henry – In the name of God!

Henry Frankenstein: Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!”

– ‘Frankenstein’, 1931.

Steel engraving (993 × 78 mm), for the frontispiece of the 1831 revised edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, published by Colburn and Bentley, London

This post is a shout out to the writers and artists for bringing us these creatures, all of them fit to sit graveside with Frankenstein’s Monster- who named himself  Adam but was called a ” Devil ” or a  ” Fiend ” by his creator.

Our modern creatures have been treated a bit more kindly by their creators and THAT is a good thing.

Frankenstein Chapel- Frankenstein castle may have been an inspiration for Mary Shelley when she wrote her 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Black Phillip and the actor who gave Black Phillip his devilish voice -Daniel Wahab Chaudhry

Frankenstein’s Monster as created by artist Ross Rossin

Frankenstein’s monster as created by artist Ross Rossin.

From Stephen King’s Pet Semetary (2019) ” Church ” as portrayed by JDTonic, and Leo

PET SEMATARY, from Paramount Pictures.

Pumpkins Beo Fada!

100 Days of Halloween Fun 2023  – Pumpkin Spice

Photographer Unknown

Pumpkin Spice has become the butt of jokes during the Halloween Season.

It’s been meme’d to death and much like ketchup ( but lacking the respect smashed tomatoes get ) Pumpkin Spice gets sprinkled and boiled and microwaved into anything edible only before Pumpkin Spice is consumed it gets mocked just one last time.

It’s quite possible I am over reacting to the cruel treatment of Pumpkin, the undisputed centerpiece of the Halloween Season, but during the time of year when it is said that the dead return to the world of the living I’m not so sure it’s a good idea to tease something that is shaped like a human head and is given a face and personality and a life of it’s own by a very sharp knife.

Andrew Wyeth, Mischief Night, 2002

But go ahead. Snicker and jeer.

I am curious to see how this shakes out.

It’s Halloween and at this time of the year anything is possible.

Z Is For ZOMBIES!!!

 

To add to#100DAYSOFHALLOWEEN HAPPY ” Just Because ” I decided to go with Zombie- Bon appétit

(Phillips, Lee, Kaballero, Ainsworth)
Well I’ve been running for a while
And I know that I’m next in line
She’s been gettin trigger happy
And I’ve heard so far that she’s killed 9
Well it’s a complicated tale
With a price on my head
And a sharp looking agent who
Wants to find me certified dead
She’s an infidel zombie
She gets depressed with duress
A love that cannot find me
Let me tell you
I don’t believe it
There’s a bullet with my name on it now
They caught me once while I was out messin around
They put me in cemented wedges but I didn’t drown
I’m back on the streets and running for my life again
But I know they’ll tear it down and they’re gonna start
To close in
Chorus
Songwriters: Phillips, Kaballero, Ainsworth. For non-commercial use only.

Let Us Prey

#100DAYSOFHALLOWEEN HAPPY#33

The thing about saying grace is that anyone can  say  them for any reason at all

 

I’ve learned prayers

to protect me from the dead

to chase away evil

to forgive my sins.

I’ve said grace

over meals

before journeys

 before I  fall asleep.

 

I sang those  prayers

raged those prayers

obediently

past gritted teeth

through the darkness

into the next  day.

 

So who will stand over me

after I’ve died

and ask that I sleep

forever

God let it be

forever

will they prey that I do not rise

and that I never walk again.