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[shadzytarts]

Day 4 of th dca palooza promptober, Haunt!

Here's a cropped close up of it!

[gary-the-guardian]

Exciting news! My photographer (despite having 6 limbs, I don’t take these photos myself!) just released an illustrated light horror children’s book. It’s called Little Pumpkin and the Ghost Ship. If you’re so inclined, please pick up a copy on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HB2VPJL

It’s a guaranteed gourd time.

No fortified pumpkins were hurt in the making of this book.

[littlepsych101]

How psychology can help you construct the creepiest costume this Halloween (psychtober#19)

Psychologists have been studying what kind of faces register as most frightening to humans, the broad conclusion thus far is that ‘near-human’ faces- so faces that are human, but not quite- freak us out the most. 

Research by Stephanie Lay on 3,000 participants shows that there was most repulsion these kinds of faces, things such as dolls, blank eyes and masks. This is further explained by the ‘uncanny effect’- researchers in the 1970′s wanted to determine whether making robots look more similar to humans would make individuals feel more at ease with them, this worked to a degree however when the likeness become both too human and yet not enough, individuals became repelled. 

This is likely because our brain starts off interpreting the face as human, but as we examine it more closely we face the sudden shock of it actually having really frightening non-human features. 

This is used to explain why so many people fear clowns. Stephen Schlozman, who teaches about the psychology of horror at Harvard university, argues that it is the trouble our brain has deciding whether a clown is human or not that makes them so intimidating. 

Therefore, for your Halloween costume you can easily keep things simple by just adding sinister features, such as blacked out eyes or a zombie-ish face to unsettle others the most. This is why villains such as Pennywise, Leatherface and Michael Myers scare so many people.

[lostlings]

[kaxodow-blog]

So @terminatedapathy suggested I should make a Sneaky Shocky, so here it is. In this picture, as you can see he is sneakily hacking a terminal. Or at least that is what I was tried to go for. x) I wonder what type of data is he gathering? Hope you like it!

[tcr55]

Named after Sir Charles Fitzroy, Governor of NSW 1846-55, Fitzroy Street is a charming old street.

This is where it starts at the corner of Waterloo Street and it ends on the eastern side of Sydney’s Surry Hills at the top point of Moore Park.

[greenghostlyjekyll]

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[chiefladylightyay]

The original horror hunger...

"In the 1700s in France, a man named Tarrare walked the streets eating literally anything in his path. At the age of 17, he weighed only 100 pounds and could eat a quarter of an entire cow in a day. He could also wrap the skin of his stomach around his entire body. After being kicked out of his house for his appearance, he traveled as part of a freak show, consuming anything put in front of him. Tarrare would eat anything from garbage to flint to even live animals.

Tarrare enlisted in the army and was quickly sent to a hospital after almost starving on a diet meant for a normal man. There, he became the test subject of curious doctors, who fed him everything from live snakes and eels to meals meant for 15 people. Tarrare, however, was kicked out of the hospital after getting caught trying to eat cadavers. During his stay, a 14-month-old baby mysteriously disappeared from the infirmary, and it's believed he ate it."