Something Wicked This Way Comes

Three of my favorite haunters are working on showcase pages for their haunts this year.
The anticipation is making me fidgety.
Fortunately they have posted a few shots to tide us over until the full glory of their work is revealed to us.

Spookyblue

Spooky's tutorials helped me get started in the haunting life. The Grumble and son were big influences I have yet to rip-off...I mean emulate. His blog is also so well written with hysterical and often poignant stories that it is required reading for me.

Season of Shadows

Another beautiful and inspirational site that also dives into the paranormal. This year, he launched a video series - Halloween Haunter's Reality. It's fantastic. Gives you a first person look at creating props. The prop he created this year is one of the best groundbreakers I've ever seen. I love these videos. Hope they keep coming.
SoS's John also has a very interesting site call 'Wind of the Soul' which explores spirituality and inner topics. He even has a podcast. Busy guy!

Pumpkinrot


Well what can I say about Pumpkinrot that hasn't already been said - by me or by anyone.
He is the patron saint of Haunters, raising it to an art form . The reason I began building props in the first place was a result of stumbling across his site. Every year's haunt is a theme with backstory for the scarecrows and this year he outdid himself with the Hollowmen. He always does wonderful photos and video of each years haunts.

These are the sites I am constantly refreshing my Google Reader for. Cannot wait to see your final pages guys.

Spooky Blue & Thoughts on the Haunter Community

Spookyblue - Dogs, Cats, Halloween Haunts & Other Things of Varying Degrees of Interest.

This is one of my all-time favorite sites. It has fantastic haunt props and even better Howtos of each one. The Howtos read very well, they are informative and funny. His blog is great too and recently became more of the focus. This site was paramount in my initial run last year and will be for this years sophomore effort.

Well, as much as there will be a sophomore effort considering I pretty much spend almost every moment at home with Veronica (see post).

I've had the privilege of speaking with Spooky a few times since I originally posted this, one of the nicest guys you will meet. Seriously, great guy.

I have noticed since I started dipping my toe into the world of Haunters and Halloween lovers that almost everyone I have met has been extremely nice and helpful. Everyone has been more that accommodating with my questions and comments. It really is a wonderful group of people to know. Particularly Spooky Blue, Season of Shadows, Pumpkin Hollow and Pumpkinrot. All of whom have been like new friends.

Compare that to the other communities that I am heavily involved in, Linux and programmer/technologists -in-general where the nice guy to jerk-ass ratio is easily 50/50 and you'll see one of the reasons I prefer to spend most of my time in the company of my Halloween friends.

Thanks everybody!