Happy Halloween, y'alls! Last night was pretty wild. There's a townhouse a couple neighborhoods away that a friend of a friend said was going to put on one heck of a display, and one that might be relevant to my particular interests. They were right on both counts!
So, first things first. The haunted house tour starts (like fun often does) with entry through the back door. They had a bit of a yard squished up against the neighboring fences, and that acted as the leadup to their jack-o-lantern display.
Nice, round pumpkins. Our scarecrow greeter seems to have gotten hot candlewax all over them repeatedly, but accidents happen you know?
We heard ominous giggling and chanting from behind the door, and after being ushered through it we came upon a scene of ghastly diabolism.
I guess it's an improvement over conventional witchcraft, what with only the victim's butt being sacrificed instead of the entire thing. More sustainable, I suspect, since you can reuse them.
The next room featured a curiously genderflipped appearance by Count Dracula and Mina Harker.
Though I do have to say, Dracula's outfit looked more like an indecisive attempt at Dio Brando than anything else...and the Countess might have also thought more carefully about how much skin she was showing and how much makeup this would neccessitate. Still, the enthusiasm from both parties more than made up for it!
Finally, the house included the laboratory of an aneurotypical empiricist performing some spooky and absolutely 100% ethical experiments.
I'm not sure what concoction she was testing, exactly, but if thrashing and muffled cries were the desired result I'd call it a smashing success! Can't wait for the patent.
That was the whole walking tour. Some really interesting people live here, I'll be sure to try and get in touch with them in the future. For now, I hope you all enjoyed the holiday as much as I did.
