You’ve longed for a Myra Hindley, Albert Fish, or Ed Gein clock to spice up your dreary apartment. And thanks to the fine artists at Serial Killer Calendar.Com, your dream has come true!
Thanks to Steve O’ for the link.
I’ve featured Shain Erin’s lovely morbid art dolls on the blog previously, but Michael just sent me a link to her Etsy.Com website. Atrociousness for sale! The current selections aren’t the best, but it’s worth keeping an eye on…
Visionary Fine Art by Shain Erin
Morbid Trinket Du Jour!
September is here which means our greatest holiday is just around the corner! Which reminds me: String Dolls are awesome Halloween decorations. (I have a devil that hangs in my living room year round, actually.) Thanks to NYC Rocker for reminding me how splendid they are!
The Comtesse's Friend
Available from Kamibashi.
While shopping at Woolly Mammoth in Chicago today, I picked up a new friend for the Castle DeSpair. I expect he will stab me to death tonight, which isn’t a bad way to go, all things considered…
Here’s a nifty, if a bit overpriced, Morbid Trinket: a bloody bookmark! Made of hand-poured red silicone, I think it would look so lovely in the ghastly books I read.
Available from Think Geek.
Yesterday’s MFDJ discussed the warden that had a little electric chair on his desk. Although I don’t have an electric chair (I wish), I do have another little trinket on my bookshelf that I thought I’d share. Isn’t it lovely? (The head is Christopher Walken as the Headless Horsemen
And at Christmas Time I bring out the head of a Wise Man that I found broken off in a store. Kinda looks a bit like Bin Laden, doesn’t it? How appropriate…
(Guillotine available from Design Toscano)
“Corpse for sale, unappetizing old corpse for sale…”
(Thanks to Karen for the link.)
Stumbled upon an excellent site today, chock full of amazing morbid trinkets! Dr. Morose and Miss Macabre are splendid artists and archivists of ghastly things. Their website is well worth a gander, as is their Etsy shop. Dark original paintings, obituary shadow boxes, poison bottles, macabre dolls, etc. – it’s a morbid trinket haven!
Dr. Morose & Miss Macabre’s House Of Oddities
Morose & Macabre’s Wicked Little Shop
Guess where I’m going the next time I’m in NYC?
Obscura Antiques
They’ve even got a Discovery Channel show:
Oddities
Some people get all the cool trinkets. Grumble.
