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Scaries Stories Returns with Original Artwork

If you were a kid during the eighties, you may have come across a trilogy of books called Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; a collection of spooky folk tales that stuck with you years after, much like the ending to the Blair Witch. Now, what made these stories stay in the brains of many, especially when alone at night, was the book didn't hold back on the macabre and creep factor.  Each tale was either morbid, creepy, or down right frightening.  It even had a song which describes what happens to your body as it rots in your grave!  I am not joking when I say that these books were like a gateway drug to Stephen King and Clive Barker.  Screw Goosebumps, Scary Stories was the real deal. Now, what amped up the frights was the downright scary blotchy ink paintings by artist Stephen Gammell, who  before these books, was a commercial artist.  It was his artwork that made the books far more special.  As a kid I almost couldn't open the book without cr...
Scored some cool stuff, during the oddities shindig that @tulsaprfm put together. It was a packed house, but still a hoot. Got these pieces from @Natures_Oddities. #oddities #bones A post shared by Mister Schlocko (@misterschlocko) on Jul 15, 2017 at 6:25pm PDT

Purple Bigfoot Matress Cover

I have no idea how this commercial slid past me.  It's several years old, and I am just now discovering it. I was going down a rabbit hole on the Internet and, as one would expect, a commercial started before the video.  But instead of the old keep clicking on skip till it goes away, I watched in what I could only describe as awe and bafflement.  I have just witnessed the Purple Protector Bigfoot commercial, and I don't care how old the damn thing is.  I have this compulsion now to tell people about it and show them.  Show them the pure insanity and hilarious commercial for a bed sheet protector. Alright, so the first thing you notice is Mama Sasquatch and her son, Junior; a little person in a sasquatch costume that really looks so damn close to what Jack Black wore in Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny.  But it also makes me think of Chaka from the TV series Land of the Lost. There is also Daddy Bigfoot who is busy trying to prove to the Bigfoot wor...