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.

It Was A Dark and Moonless Night

For: The Big Bad Wolf Project SFC

The accepted hypothesis for how the Moon was formed  was that something the size of Mars smacked into  youngish Earth and in the same way a bullet will blow it’s way out of the back of it’s target, parts of the Earth were ejected into space.

Lucky for us the Earth’s medical waste didn’t just float off.   Some of the  Earth’s Earthly remains were caught in Earth’s orbit and around and around it went until the Moon was formed.

The object that hit the Earth was named Theia after the Greek Moon Goddess because, I suppose , it made sense.

However I would have an object that tried to wipe the Earth out of existence a more fitting name.

I would have named it Fang.

#100DAYSOFHALLOWEEN HAPPY-Moon

Let Me Spell It Out

#100DAYSOFHALLOWEEN HAPPY ” Casting Spells “

Pumpkin Empress-AI

She wished a wish from the depths of her heart

from the bottom of  her Soul

no wish or prayer was ever so pure.

 

Of course her wish was granted, her prayer was heard

at least that what she thinks

from the jar where I keep her heart

on a shelf in my basement with my collection

of souls of anyone

who tried to use magic to bend me to their will.