Halloween Decorations that Will Unsettle the Neighbors

If your taste is more Adam’s Family than Casper the Friendly Ghost, our gothic-inspired Halloween decorations will be right up your dark alley.

*Editor’s Note: These picks were supposed to run as a post for Cookie Magazine, which has since been closed. We wish good things for the editorial team at Cookie. There’s not enough aspirational material out there for parents, and we’ll miss your monthly insights.

| Posted: 22 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

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• Jaw Vegan Soap

  

  Seems kind of counter-intuitive that it’s vegan, no?

  $8 at Etsy | Buy

  

  | Posted 22 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

• Custom Headless Portrait

  

  Not just any old decapitated head silhouette, a personalized decapitated head silhouette.

  $19 at Etsy | Buy

  

  | Posted 22 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

• Set of 2 Zombie Silhouettes

  

  I would make another zombie joke, but I’m afraid the Internet will start throwing things at me.

  $60 at Target | Buy

  

  | Posted 22 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

• Custom Shower Curtain

  

  The thought crosses your mind every time you’re in the shower anyway.

  $55 at Etsy | Buy

  

  | Posted 20 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

• Lenticular Man Portrait

  

  “Kindly step all the way in please, and make room for everyone. There’s no turning back now.”

  $17 at Target | Buy

  

  | Posted 19 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

• Thing, Please Pass the Salt

  

  Seat Morticia next to Gomez, but keep Pugsley and Wednesday apart.

  $17 at Target | Buy

  

  | Posted 16 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

• Bobcat Stalking Straight

  

  So. You’re really, really into Halloween decorations. You live on a block where you compete with the neighbors, and you play to win. I have an idea so genius that I’m a little loathe to share with the Internet.

  As it turns out, taxidermy animal forms look like freakish, deformed, ghost animals, and they are widely available on the Internet.

  Uplight one in the front window, weatherproof them (Maybe they’re already weatherproof? I don’t work with dead animals much.) and have an army of animal ghosts in your yard. Genuinely terrifying.

  Bwahahahahaha.

  $67 at Van Dyke's | Buy

  

  | Posted 15 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

• Poor Yorick

  

  For an upscale Halloween centerpiece, elevate this skull lantern on a platter wreathed in red roses. The rest of the year it can accent your Mexican pottery collection, or play a minor part in the high school production of Hamlet.

  $62 at Field Museum | Buy

  

  | Posted 13 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

• Human Glass Eyes

  

  I think those grapes are watching me. Your cheese tray is creeping me out.

  $10 at Paxton Gate | Buy

  

  | Posted 09 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

• Bloody Rustic Lantern

  

  Mom? Mooom? Haley tried to put out the camping lantern with her Kool Aid again.

  $15 at Target | Buy

  

  | Posted 08 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason

• Braaaains

  

  Zombie mobile!

  Why didn’t they have any of this useful stuff when your kids were newborns?

  $30 at Salty and Sweet | Buy

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  | Posted 03 Oct, 2009 by Margaret Mason