Zombos' Closet

Topstone's Honeycomb Witch Table Top Decoration

Is it Halloween yet?

Beistle Art-Tissue Witch Halloween Centerpiece

Is it too early to start thinking about Halloween 2012? Anyway, here's to a witchin' New Year!

Eureka Halloween Glittering Ghouls Witch

This is a neat series of Halloween tissue decorations from Eureka, though I'm not sure of the date. The reverse side is also printed, but you can see the witch's eyes instead of the glittering plastic one's she's showing on this side. Note the large creepy hands. The Mummy in the series is more cutesy, making its glittering eyes less effective than you see here.

Russ Halloween Cauldron With Witch

I like to imagine those are Hansel's teeth she's wearing as a necklace: I was so disappointed she never got to eat him.

Eureka Halloween Haunted Castle

This 23 inch 3D Halloween Haunted Castle decoration from Eureka has entertaining accents like the alligator in the moat, the sinister eyes staring at you, and if you look closely at the left tower window you'll see a pair of green hands holding onto the bars. 

Beistle Halloween Jointed Dracula

Here's a puzzle: this striking Beistle 36 inch jointed Dracula from 1998 with the wild eyes and toothy bite is not the one depicted on the packaging label below. Funny, but I just noticed that while scanning this sucker. I wonder why the design change? That dapper vampire on the label is definitely less in-biting, don't you think? He's more cartoony, while this Dracula is more mes...mer...izing... good lord!, don't stare into his eyesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss...............................................

Halloween Universal Monsters Window Color-Clings

I'm not a fan of window-clings: they fade, they're small, so what's the point? Give me big decorations I can show off my Halloween pride with satisfaction. Now these designs are trendy; wish they'd have posterized them or made nice and BIG paper or (gulp) even window-clings of substantial size. Now that would be thrilling.

Halloween Dracula Dangling Cutouts

These Amscan glow in the dark Dracula cutouts are so fearsome they are "not recommended for children under 36 months." I know you'll be tempted to hang these in your baby's crib on Halloween Night, but DON'T DO IT! 

On another note, note the artist's name is highlighted; that's rare. I'd like to see the other decorations he's scared up for Amscan.

Eureka Witches Brew Halloween Decoration

This 36 inch jointed decoration from Eureka unfolds to show not only these witchy veterans from Macbeth, but creepy pumpkins as well. The bonus spooky Halloween story that appears on the back is a fun read, too. 

Zacherley and Witch Halloween Poster

There's nothing that says Halloween! quite like this 11x17 inch Chiller Theatre poster of Zacherley riding on a broomstick with a curvaceous naked witch.

Halloween Jack in the Box Kid's Meal Bag Universal Studios Monsters

I've had this Jack in the Box kid's meal bag for ages. Great illustrations on front and back and the premium Universal Monster toys that came in it were fantasticly designed. You remember those days, don't you? When Halloween and Universal Monsters were inseparable? Now it's all Freddy, Jason, and Scream. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Shame on you Universal. 

Eureka Halloween Dracula

It's surprising that a man who imbibes blood so assiduously can be so sartorially perfect. He sleeps on dirt for chrissakes! And yet his formal wear is always pressed, his hair perfectly combed, and his white shirt and starched cuffs always white and stiff. Amazing. Now that's the supernatural for you.

The vampire bat (now honeycomb pop-out) and cute rat from Eureka's jointed skeleton are friends to Dracula, too. The colors, the dripping red "Dracula," and  his blood-stained teeth provide enough sinister and horror to make the Halloween season merry (for fans, anyway).

I wonder why he's holding his pocket watch, showing the midnight hour? Is he telling us we're being toasted at midnight, but only he's the one drinking?

Eureka Halloween Skeleton

What makes this 43 inch Eureka jointed skeleton paper decoration so gravely great is the honeycomb Jack o'Lantern he's holding. You just don't see this kind of Halloween illustration anymore. It's creepy not cute, yet not threatening. How can skeletons holding Jack o'Lanterns be threatening (if his arms were empty then I'd worry). He's even got a pet vampire bat with sharp fangs. Cool.

Peck Halloween Paper Decorations

These 1978 paper decorations from Peck Inc. are stylishly designed with their day-glo green, red and black illustrations and retro-cartoony characters.  Each is around 15 inches in length and 6 to 7 inches wide.

Christopher Lee Dracula Halloween Decoration

I found this Halloween diecut decoration three Halloweens ago. It's around 13 inches high and 7 inches wide. It looks very much like Christopher Lee's Dracula and I've not been able to identify the outfit that marketed it.