Creepmas Day 8: Kandy Coated Kackles Vol. 14 Creepmas Music!!!

So this year I'm celebrating Creepmas! 

From the 13 Days of Creepmas website: 

"A reaction to the continuing incursion of Christmas into Autumn and Halloween, CREEPMAS is a good-natured chance for Halloween lovers to exact revenge by bringing some spooky good cheer into the holidays or, more appropriately, the Hallowdays..." Read more about the inspirations behind this 13 day celebration HERE. 

So today's post is going to focus on Christmas tunes with a Creepmas theme! Since 2012 Artist Zach Bellissimo has made an annual project of putting together a series of Halloween mixes he calls "Kandy Coated Kackles". That same year he put out a KCK mix for Christmas called "The Creeps of Christmas: Halloween Music for Christmas". (Here's a link to his TUMBLR page with download links and cover art for the first 17 vols. of Kandy Coated Kackles be sure to check out vol. 18 that he put out for Halloween this year as well!)

All of the artwork on the album covers is Bellissimo's own work. He does an amazing job on these.

The tracks in "The Creeps of Christmas" include:

1. Scariest Damn Night- Excerpt from "Silent Night, Deadly Night"
2. It's A Monster's Holiday- Buck Owens
3. What's This?- Danny Elfman
4. You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch- Thurl Ravenscroft
5. Santa & The Purple People Eater- Sheb Wooley
6. Chainsaw for Christmas- Zombina & The Skeletones
7. Gremlins Attack Santa- Excerpt from "Gremlins"
8. Halloween on Xmas- Coffin Caddies
9. Here Comes Krampus- Huizenga
10. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Trailer
11. Christmas Rap- The Crypt Keeper
12. I Found the Brains of Santa Claus- Jason & The Strap- Tones
13. Dead as A Door Nail- Vincent Price
14. Shot My Baby For Christmas- The Vaudvilles
15. I Killed Santa Claus- The Creeping Cruds
16. Merry Monster Christmas- Len Maxwell
17. The Bumble- Excerpt from "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"
18. Abominable Snowman in the Market- Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
19. Making Christmas- Danny Elfman
20. Christmas with Krampus- Les Barons
21. Glory Amen- Those Poor Bastards
22. You Must Defeat Santa- Excerpt from "Santa Claus" 1959
23. Silent Night, Deadly Night- The White Coffin Terror
24. New Years Eve in a Haunted House- Raymond Scott
25. The Bite Before Christmas- The Cool Ghoul
26. Santa Claus is Coming to Town- Alice Cooper
27. If You See Santa Claus...- Excerpt from "Silent Night, Deadly Night"
28. Monster's Holiday- Bobby (Boris) Pickett & The Crypt Kickers
29. We Wish You A Scary Christmas- Disney's Haunted Mansion Holiday

Of course, in your hunt to find suitably creepy music for the Creepmas/Christmas season, you could do much worse than looking on the Creepmas site itself (though it may be a bit of a cheat to reference the site that invented the celebration...) for their recommendations of "Hallowday Music"! 

Happy 13 days of Creepmas! I'll be back tomorrow with another entry in the countdown, which may or may not involve a Goodwill Goody! Until then, Happy Hunting!

Halloween Countdown Day 21: Cool Stuff Around the Web

So I'm going to kind of hurry through this one tonight kids.

I just want to show-case some Awesome Halloween-y stuff I've discovered around the web recently.

First up:

I noticed over at the Strange Kids Club site that Kandy Coated Kackles is back! Zach Bellissimo is up to the 17th volume of his Halloween Mixtapes with his own original cover artwork. This one is called TOKYO ATTACK!!! As you can see there is a slight (but not annoyingly pervasive) Kaiju theme to this year's mix. You can also go to Bellissimo's own Tumblr to download all the other 16 volumes of KCK. I think even more than the music itself, I love Bellissimo's album art. 

Next we have the short film "Larson's Field" which is a spooky little Halloween tale that I feel like I can't really talk too much about without giving too much away. Let's just say that the gnarled-looking hand you see above is something that will come back to haunt these kids on Halloween. The kids' acting is in turns prett good and not-so-good, but this short film still manages to be spooky, funny, and reminiscent of more than one movie that has come before it. 

Tintod, over at Junk Fed shares a post this week that was quite frankly one of the best Halloween blog posts I've ever read. It his own Halloween history, and it details some really fun, really personal, and really just plain nostalgic stuff. The personal connections he makes between Halloween and his family relationships stirred up all kinds of emotions in me, not the least of which was just a wistful longing to be a kid at Halloween again.  

Finally, I wanted to end with a little local lore and legend... The story of Catherine's Hill is a story that everyone in my area is aware of. Many people I know swear up and down that they've had encounters with the ghostly Catherine. I live about 3 miles from this part of the Blacks Woods and Fox pond, and I know the area is both eerie and beautiful. About 4 years ago, local news station WABI did a little news piece about Catherine's Hill, and it was a fun, shivery little piece of reporting. Marcus LiBrizzi, who is interviewed in the piece, is one of my wife's professor's at UMaine Machias. Any time she has to make a trip out to the campus she drives down the Blacks Woods road and up Catherine's Hill. My favorite part of the whole piece is when he mentions that he thinks something far OLDER resides in those woods than an of the local legends would suggest... Enjoy! 

Well, that's it for me tonight kids! I'll be back tomorrow with some Groovy-Ghoulie Goodwill Goodies! Until then, Happy Haunting!

Be sure to check out all of the great blogs participating in this year's Halloween Countdown! You can do so by clicking this link, or clicking on the Cryptkeeper 2013 banner on the sidebar to the right! Also, check out the "Blog-O-Ween" Halloween Blog collective, again by following this link, or through the badge on the sidebar! Thanks!