#spooky fun

[manicmadhouse]

Why yes, this did come home with me and I couldn’t be happier

[eco-dolly-escapades]

the spookiest day of the year is upon us once more 🦇👻🕷

and all the ghouls, witches, goblins n weirdos are out to celebrate in full force 🖤🧙🧚‍♀️🎃🧚🧙‍♀️🐈‍⬛

[dark-ethereal-visions]

Tumblr's horror community > X's horror community - by 1,000,000%!

[mask131]

Creepy and spooky cartoons of my youth (1)

I want to collect, for this Halloween season, some of the "creepy cartoons" of my youth - animated series aimed at a young audience but still about creepy and spooky stuff, and that I encountered during my childhood or teenagehood. I decided to make it a two-parters, and in this first iteration I want to share cartoons I was not particularly a fan of as a kid, or following faithfully as a teenager, but that I did regularly saw or that marked me at some point, and thus were part of a sort of "general mediatic ambiance".

Starting with one I casually watched from time to time, "Growing Up Creepie". I shared a video about it earlier. The show aired around the time I got back from school on the afternoons one specific year, so usually I got a side-look at it on TV while munching on biscuits:

Another one I casually watched without ever going fully into it, but that was an... interesting watch, was Mona the Vampire. While watching it as an adult is VERY different from watching it as a kid, I was REALLY into the whole concept of "It's just kids playing games and incorporating real-life into their imagination world". Plus I was also very much into the concept of a vampire superhero-protagonist kicking the ass of monsters.

There was "Tales from the Cryptkeeper", which I would not have known the existence of, had I not borrowed a VHS tape of it at the local library when I was a kid:

"Esprit Fantôme". This is a French cartoon that aired VERY regularly on television in my youth. I never actually really watched it... I watched trailers of it, and fragments of episodes from time to time. I know the basic cast. But it never interested me as a kid, and I never completed a full episode ever. However I still intend to get a look at it now, because I wonder what all the fuss was about and why everybody liked it back in the days.

"Petit Vampire". The iconic and famous comic book of Joann Sfar was adapted several times as animation, but I am not speaking of the recent animated movie that came out - I am speaking of the first, animated series that was aired on TV. I only ever caught glimpses of it while switching through the channels, and on very rare occasions. I thought it looked cool and interesting, but I never got info as a kid as to what the show was about or where it came from. I only re-discovered it much later, as I looked into Sfar's work and discovered he had made "Petit Vampire"

"Zombie Hotel". Another one of those European shows. I honestly would not have included it on the list... Had I not been spammed with videos of it when looking at something else on Youtube. I had ENTIRELY forgotten about the existence of this cartoon until a month ago or so, and YET when I saw it I was all "DARN THAT'S THIS SHOW I REMEMBER! I don't know what it is about or who are these people but I KNOW THEM!". I still need to re-watch it to understand what was going on.

"Oggy et les cafards". Okay with this one I am cheating a bit, because it is NOT meant to be a creepy or spooky show. It is not horror for kids, it is not horror comedy, it is meant to be fun, wholesome, cooky, goofy... But if you know this show, you will know it is one of the most famous representatives of the "deranged animations" specific to France, and I never watched this show as a kid - half because I was not interested in it and I thought the style was ugly, but also half because this show creeped me out and disturbed me so much. The strange muteness of characters existing in a town seemingly out of "Vivarium", the laws of architectures and physics bending randomly at every scene as if this was Hell rather than the real world, and the random nonsensical jokes and absurd cameos that made this world feel like... like insanity. It did NOT like it - it was basically David Lynch for kids, or at last it was perceived as such in my young brain X)

I preferred to it "Les Zinzins de l'Espace" (Space Goofs), which worked on the same absurd humor and deranged animation, but that at least conveyed well and in a sympathetic and funny way the goofy caricatures and the comedic intentions - Les Zinzins de l'Espace was a safe show, and one of my favorites ; Oggy and the Cockroaches was like a surrealist painting that left me disturbed if I tried to think for too long about it, because I felt by instinct it would give me nightmares.

Next post will be about my actual FAVORITE creepy cartoons!

[andrew-echoes]

A ghostly encounter

One Halloween night, a man decided to wander through the forest, captivated by the mystery of the dark woods. He lost track of time and before he knew it, night had fallen. Realizing he'd have to spend the night there, he found a spot by a lake, lit a small fire and began cooking some sausages. As the flames flickered, he noticed a faint glow hovering over the water - a ghostly figure, floating silently just above the lake's surface.

Frozen with fear, he tried to stay calm, watching as the ghost drifted closer. But in a moment, as quickly as it had appeared, the ghost vanished into the night mist. Blinking in disbelief, he wondered if it had all been a trick of his mind or if he'd really encountered a spirit by the lake. 👻

This post is dedicated to Halloween. Just a little spooky for fun, inspired by the eeire beauty of the lake and the forest on a Halloween night 🎃

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[hauntedautumnwhispers]

took about 2 hours to set up but SOO SOOOOO worth it!!! it’s 45° and dropping and soon we’ll have a fire going on the side, and then we’ll be carving!!! stay tuned for pumpkin pictures!!!! so excited, and turned out just as i planned in my head 🧡🤎🍂🎃

[simder-talia-blog]

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