So We've Talked About Southern Gothic But What About Northern Gothic? Is That A Thing?

Out in the fields you’ve seen something resting at a broken grave, and until dark it lies there waiting, weary-eyed and unafraid.

Solar System: 10 Things to Know This Week...Halloween Edition!

This week, we’re getting into the Halloween spirit with 10 spooktacular things to let your imagination run wild. 

It’s not Halloween without our favorite scary characters, but what if they could stop bothering us Earthlings and go far, far away? We begin with where Dracula, Frankenstein, and other creepy creatures might choose to live if the galaxy were theirs to claim…

1. The dark (k)night.

The prince of darkness himself, Dracula, can finally seek sweet respite from the Sun. We think he’d love to live on a rocky planet named YZ Ceti d that orbits so close to its red star that it’s tidally locked keeping one side of the planet in perpetual nighttime and the other side in perpetual daytime, with a brilliant red sky (though we can guess which side Dracula will prefer). 

2. Where art thou, werewolves? 

Home sweet home for our furry Full Moon friends might just be on Trappist-1, a planetary system with seven planets—and where standing on one planet would mean the other planets look like six moons (some as big as our Moon in the sky). 

3. Left in the dust. 

We couldn’t think of anyone better to live on Proxima b than The Mummy. Hopefully this ancient monster can finally rest in peace on an exoplanet that scientists theorize is a desert planet once home to ancient oceans. 

4. Cloudy with a chance of Frankenstein.

One scientific experiment we’d like to conduct: whether Frankenstein would rather live on HAT-P-11b or Kepler-3b, theorized to have fierce thunderstorms and lightning. 

5. The walking dead. 

We’re pretty confident that if zombies were to pick a planet, they’d want one that shares their love of death and destruction. We think they’d feel right at home on one of the pulsar planets, which are scorched by radiation because they orbit a dead star. 

6. Rest your weary bones. 

Skeletons need look no further: Osiris, an exoplanet that’s so close to a star that it’s “losing its flesh” as the star destroys it, seems like a perfect match. 

7. Enough of the scary stuff. 

For kids out there, turn pumpkin decorating into an out-of-this-world activity with space-themed stencils, from Saturn to the Sun. 

8. Spooky sounds. 

Cassini’s radio emissions from Saturn could give creaky doors and howling winds a run for their money. Listen to the eerie audio recordings here and find more HERE.

9. Pumpkin-carve like a NASA engineer. 

NASA engineers design and build robots that can fly millions of miles to study other planets for a living—so on Halloween, they can’t help but bring that creative thinking to the grand old tradition of pumpkin carving. Take a cue from their creations with these insider tips.

10. Detective for a day. 

From blades of ice on Pluto to a fuzzy, white “bunny” photographed on Mars, become a solar system sleuth and see if you can solve the stellar mysteries in this slideshow (then compare with how scientists cracked the case). 

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.

There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile. The crooked man stepped forth and rang the crooked bell. And thus his crooked soul spiraled into a crooked hell. Murdered his crooked family and laughed a crooked laugh.

THE CONJURING 2 (2016) dir. James Wan

Avatar: The Last Airbender | 1.02 - “The Avatar Returns”

“‘What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and time again? An instant of pain perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time like a blurred photograph, like an insect trapped in amber.’”

— Guillermo Del Toro, The Devil’s Backbone (via swordofdemeter)

What Brought the Tide to This Town by tboersner

Mystic American West Moodboard

Driving through forgotten highways, the old magic of the land starts to creep down your spine…

Here’s a new set of hi-res phone wallpapers/lockscreens made from some of my latest artwork, free for you to use if you’d like! (If you’re on mobile, you can find a link to the full-size files in my FAQ) Love youuu ♥ 

Few monster designs from the upcoming Fear & Hunger: Termina.

Eerievember 2020

The double fractal fossils (archived) 

 DNA Analysis of the fused human skeleton reveals that it all originated from one woman in her late forties. 

God’s Scarecrow 

 Most organic life dies within an 80 meter vicinity of the apparition. The “fog” that it emits from its “eyes” and “mouth” may be a factor in this sudden death phenomena.

Devil’s Door (Casablanca, exact coordinates kept secret) 

 Studies are still being made on how (or why) the door was constructed deep within the cave system. It is absolutely prohibited for anyone to open or enter the door.

The Floaters of rural Canada 

 At a glance, the eight bodies found floating in a field within a rural farmland in Canada appeared to be human. Yet closer inspection revealed that the figures were entirely made up of a sponge-like fungal growth.