Halloween. Haunting the yard. Prop building. Supporting Portland's Haunted Attractions. Visiting other home haunts. Drawing. Digital art. Web design. Music. Sound editing.

Movies:

The Universal Monster Classics, The Hammer Films, 50's/60's/70's schlock sci-fi/horror, Horror Anthologies, Return of the Living Dead, Romero's Living Dead, Fulci, Argento, Herschel Gordon Lewis, Trick 'r Treat, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, The Thing, The Fog, Jaws, Poltergeist, Halloween I/II/III, Fright Night, Creepshow, Night of the Creeps, The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, From Dusk Till Dawn, 28 Days/28 Weeks Later, Fido, Thir13en Ghosts, Grindhouse, House of 1000 Corpses, From Hell, The Descent, Slither, Midnight Meat Train, Hellraiser I/II, 30 Days of Night, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, The Addiction, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Interview with the Vampire, The Exorcist, Evil Dead I/II, Army of Darkness, Humanoids from the Deep, Scanners, The Sentinel, Lord of the Rings, Alien/s, Pirates of the Caribbean, Akira, Ninja Scroll, Heavy Metal:The Movie and Young Frankenstein among many, many others.



TV Now:

True Blood, The Walking Dead, Dexter, Californication, Entourage, Supernatural, Fringe, Masters of Horror, Breaking Bad, DIY Network, HGTV, The Venture Brothers, Metalocalypse, Robot Chicken, Family Guy and Drawn Together.



TV Then:

Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Darkside, The X-Files, Millenium, Carnivale, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Night Gallery, Dark Shadows, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Star Trek. And, growing up in Northern California, I religiously watched "Chiller Diller Matinee" (Saturday late mornings on Channel 2), "The Groovy Ghouly Movie" (Saturday afternoons on Channel 44) and, my favorite, "Creature Features" (Saturday nights w/Bob Wilkins).

Dark Ambient. Industrial. Electronic. Some Techno. Metal. Hard Rock. Classic Rock. Rock Around the Clock. Alternative. Punk. Funk. Rockabilly. Psychobilly. Gothabilly. Pretty much all the billys. Soundtracks. Classical. Old Halloween Records. Old-time Horror Radio. Sound Effects. Even the loathsome jingles that get stuck in my head on occasion.

Authors:

Clive Barker, Stephen King, Brian Keene, Brian Lumley, Graham Watkins, John Norman, Anne Rice, Thomas Harris, James Patterson, Richard Matheson, Jeffrey Deaver, Caleb Carr, Jeff Lindsey, Poppy Z. Brite, Kellie Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Neil Gaiman, Dean Koontz, Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak and others.



Artists:

Berni Wrightson, Jean 'Moebius' Giraud, Coop, B.K. Taylor, Jay Lynch, Robert Williams, Suroyama, Tanino Liberatore, Phillipe Druillet, H.R. Giger, David Hartman, Eric Pigors, 'Dirty' Donny Gillies, Felix LaFlamme, "Ghoulish" Gary Pullin, Paul Booth, John Byrne, Arthur Adams, Neal Adams, Richard Corben, Kelly and Mouse, Dan Brereton, Simon Bisley, Frank Frazetta, Jose Gonzalez, Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Luis Royo, Vargas, Olivia de Berardinis, Boris Vallejo, Rob Zombie, Vaughn Bode, Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, Marc Davis, Mort Drucker, Steve Masseroni, Mark 'Crash' McCreery, Dick Smith, Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, Tom Savini, Greg Nicotero, Rob Brown, Pumpkinrot and many others.

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In November of 2008, I was exceptionally fortunate to inherit "The Haunt of Miss Rose" that Rob at SkullAndBone.com had so wonderfully crafted over the past five or more years. You can read the full story in my blog entry - A Haunter's Tale of Two Cities.

You can also listen to an awesome version of the story on the very first episode of Hauntcast as told by Revenant in his "News From Beyond" segment. My thanks to Rev and Chris Baker for featuring our story on their maiden voyage.

Please visit SkullAndBone.com to see more images of the original "Haunt of Miss Rose" and be sure to check out his must-read haunting tutorials on skeleton corpsing, haunt lighting and distressed clothing. You'll be glad you did.

Needless to say, I am honored and excited to carry on this renowned haunt and I am definitely looking forward to its future with us. As always, my profound and undying respect and gratitude to Rob for his faith, creativity and generosity. He truly is one of the classiest haunters around.

And to all the haunters and community members who have left me comments and kind words of encouragement or congratulations, I offer my sincere thanks. I can only hope to inspire some as so many have inspired me.


On Halloween 2009, House Bloodthorn presented "The Resurrection of Rose". Our first year displaying the haunt. With nearly 250 visitors on Halloween night, up from a mere dozen the previous year, it was a resounding success. The weather was perfect and everything went off without a hitch. We couldn't have asked for a better first run.

You can view images of the display by clicking on the Flickr button below. Likewise, you can view the video of the display by clicking the YouTube button below.

To top 2009 off, House Bloodthorn's The Resurrection of Rose was awarded Best Yard Haunt (Vanguard) 2009 by the Haunters Video Awards. You can read about it and find out how to get a copy of the Haunters Videos DVD set by clicking on the Blogger button below. Our thanks to everyone involved and our congratulations to all the other winners.

See you all in 2010!

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