Here is DeviantArt user dismaldreary in her corruptable, mortal state before she became one of the 999 happy haunts currently residing in the Haunted Mansion.

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Blackberry is the perfect cat for a Halloween photo opportunity! Look at that coal-black fur and those big pumpkin-colored eyes! See more of Blackberry and her daughter Autumn at their Tumblr blog, called Genius Cat. Link  -via Buzzfeed

What could be a better Halloween fashion accessory than a ring featuring the face of horror king Vincent Price? No, really. I can't think of anything that would be better this Halloween than this ring by artist Paul Komoda.

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How can a Raggedy Ann doll be haunted? This one, named Annabelle, is thought by some to be possessed by a demon, which is why it is sealed under glass.

In 1970, a woman shopping in a thrift store bought a Raggedy-Ann style doll for her daughter, who was in college. Her daughter liked it and put it in her apartment, but soon she and her roommate both noticed odd things happening involving the doll. It would move by itself, often being found in another room even though no one had touched it. They found small scraps of parchment paper, which they didn't even own, with childish handwriting scrawled on them. They even found the doll standing impossibly on its rag doll legs one day.

The doll even attacked one of the girl's boyfriend once! Read about this doll, and other haunted objects like it (or even worse) at Oddee. Link -via mental_floss

Um, I think you kids should just skip this house when you're out trick-or-treating. Link -Thanks, David Mertl!

Steven Martin collects pictures of Halloween from long ago.

"My theme is 'Halloween in the Time of Cholera,'" collector Steven Martin told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. "The idea being that people back then were probably on a more intimate level with death — and that would have affected the way they celebrated Halloween."

See a gallery at Wired. http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/10/gallery_old_halloween http://www.flickr.com/photos/opiummuseum/ to Martin's Flicker stream.

This is no Jack-O-Lantern, it's a pumpkin grown in a mold shaped like a human face! Creepy, huh? The clipping is from 1938. Link -Thanks, Dana!

I predict you will have a good Halloween -at least if you make your own delightful crystal ball ring like this one. Trinkets In Bloom can tell you how to make your own ring, which would be a great accessory for a witch or fortune teller costume.

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Alanna George made this Very Hungry Caterpillar costume for just a couple of dollars, and it looks just like the caterpillar in the book! It's just one of many literary costumes that put kids in their favorite books. See twenty more at Buzzfeed. Link

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Annette Jung took the werewolf scene from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video and animated it completely in LEGO bricks. That's a lot of brick moving! -via Laughing Squid

They died 400 years ago, and were never dressed this fancy in life. They remain dressed and bejeweled, hidden away in catacombs and storage lockers. These skeletons were revered as martyrs of the Catholic Church in their time. Some were even considered saints, even though they weren't canonized.

Thousands of skeletons were dug up from Roman catacombs in the 16th century and installed in towns around Germany, Austria and Switzerland on the orders of the Vatican.

They were sent to Catholic churches and religious houses to replace the relics destroyed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s.

That's when the bones were dressed in finery, decorated with jewels, and put on display for local church members to venerate. In the 19th century, many of them were discarded or hidden away in storage. Art historian Paul Koudounaris, author of the book Heavenly Bodies, found and photographed dozens of jeweled human relics. Read about them at the Mail Online. Link

See a lot more at Koudounaris' website, Empire de la Mort. Link

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(Image credit: Paul Koudounaris via Facebook)

Noel Dickover carves amazing jack-o-lanterns, such as the R2-D2 pictured above. After searching for just the right pumpkin for the job, Dickover spent 10-11 hours sculpting it. The legs and scope were shaped from pieces of other pumpkins and attached with Krazy Glue. Gallery Link and Article Link via Geekologie

From WebUrbanist, we have a list of cemeteries that made chills go up our spines while watching the movies. Some are purely fictional, some were filmed at real cemeteries, and some were based on real stories of cemeteries. Shown is a cemetery scene from National Treasure. Link

If you look at a variety of Halloween decor sites like I do, you'll often see decoration suggestions that require the use of a bell jar, but these can be kind of expensive -especially if you only intend to use them for Halloween decor. Fortunately, you can make your own fake bell jars relatively simply with soda bottles. Seeing Things has the instructions you need to do it.

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