The Creepiest Halloween Costumes Ever

 

Last year, the Huffington Post compiled a slideshow of the creepiest Halloween costumes ever.  

A pretty good showing, I'd say.  Definitely worth sharing, even a year later.

LIFE Magazine Black Cat Audition

 What are Vincent Price and Peter Lorre doing with those cats, you ask?

They're auditioning them, of course!  What else?

Apparently Price and Lorre were part of a 1961 Hollywood casting session for black cats, presumably for a horror movie.  LIFE Magazine was there to capture the proceedings, and as you can see, the results were fantastic.

What impresses me most is not that some Hollywood executive decided it would be a good idea to have an open casting call for cats, but that so many people managed to wrangle their cats into coming with them.  No matter how lovely I may find my two black cats, I know there's no way they would tolerate being put on a leash and trotted down to a movie studio.  Although, to be fair, the cats at above don't look too happy about it, themselves.

There are a bunch more truly awesome photos from the LIFE Magazine shoot here, and here.  [Via BoingBoing]

Tintype Witches, 1875

Via Sexy Witch.  Read the whole post here.

Farber Gravestone Collection

Hope Cemetery, Worcster, MA, 1965 (Farber Gravestone Collection)

If you're itching to do some grave hunting, but are stuck at home this Halloween week, check out the Farber Gravestone Collection, a photogtaphic archive of over 9,000 historical headstones.  The collection is both macabre and beautiful, and, since it's sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society, it's also a great historical resource.  Whether you're just browsing, or looking for references on early American history, it's well worth a look.

Tim Walker for Italian Vogue

I love this wonderfully gothic photo by Tim Walker for Vogue Italia.  The whole photoshoot is eerie and unsettling and also phenomenally beautiful!

You can see scans of the entire editorial here, or click through a slideshow at some of the shots (including some that don't appear in the magazine) on Walker's website here.