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Maybe it’s the soft clothes, maybe it’s the soft lighting, maybe it’s that every step out the door feels like a step into a Mary Oliver poem, but something about fall just screams “poems set to slide shows of black cats with pumpkins.” And it is into this particular void that Blair Banshee screams.

This particular work pays kind to Carl Sandburg, the original author of Rootabaga Stories (1922). The stories are about the American Midwest and feature corn fairies, farms, sidewalks, skyscrapers, the village of cream puffs, the village of liver and onions, and the Gold Buckskin Whincher.

Blair Banshee enjoys the word choices of Carl Sandburg. She, too, cries over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

And when Blair Banshee isn’t screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening, she collects old magazines and even older poems, some of which she may or may not share with you. There’s only one way to find out. Visit Gothtober, click on day 7!!!

What do fiber, unnerving phobias, and an ever-escalating foreboding sense of impending doom have in common? They’re all part of today’s Gothtober word search, brought to you by Doom Triscuit.

Doom Triscuit is doom-y, but never gloomy.

Doom Triscuit has as much love for your excessive and persistent feelings of unease and fear as you do those feelings themselves — perhaps even more so, as Doom Triscuit takes great satisfaction from a fear-creating job well done. Doom Triscuit has 3.5 grams of fiber per serving, and pairs well with ghost-milk cheese, perhaps with a drizzle of balsamic.

Doom Triscuit also tastes great topped with cucumber, feta crumbles, olive oil, and triple-checking that you locked the front door earlier because you thought you did, but what is that mysterious click-clacking of legs and fangs across the floor, there, off in the darkness, but coming closer, and closer, and closer?

Visit calendar Day 5 to download Doom Triscuit’s Phobia Word Search PDF.

Welcome to the second day of Gothtober! Today’s piece is by The Thomas Family!

C. Thomas (spawn of both H. and R. Thomas) has appeared in Gothtober before, including on day two last year where their art was part of “Haunted Truck Stop Foods” (Is there a truck stop food that isn’t at least a little bit haunted? I submit to you that there is not.), and on day 2 in 2019 with a sweet little animation about the paranormal. Now 16, C. Thomas is rarely seen without their sketchbook and sells art commissions on Discord and ToyHouse.

Though they often appear with their family – her mom, H. Thomas, is the sister of Cristin Pescosolido, Gothtober’s High Priestess of Web – C is solo this year with drawings of Danny from The Shining as a dragon, and the hotel in that film, done in MS Paint with an old Wacom tablet.

“MS Paint can be both fun and challenging due to the limited tools and single layer: it forces one to think ahead about the placement of shapes and shadows, and mistakes either have to stay or be erased,”

C. Thomas says. “Construction lines are limited for me, I don’t want to go back and erase them. Usually I start straight in the line art with pencil tool (using bucket to fill in), or straight with colors for other brushes (putting line art on top).”

“Dragon Danny was created with the calligraphy brush. I used the bucket tool to color large areas, but had to go back and fill in a pixelated border where off-white was not colored. I made the hotel with the pencil tool, which is more bucket tool friendly (does not leave a pixelated border when filled in, and overall looks crisper). That was fun because I got to make mid-tones, making squiggly shapes and filling them in. The mountain and snow shading are inspired by multiple line-less vector art pieces.”

Happy Gothtober day two and may the only Sunday scaries you experience be The Shining-related.

Today’s piece is almost a type of hypnotism if you let yourself lean in and become immersed by Justine’s continuous eye contact and measured speech. Since Day 12 was a tad harrowing, I would understand why you might not want to lean in quite so eagerly, but trust me, you’ll be absolutely safe.

Justine walks you through some considerations for the Halloween season. She wears kitty ears, and most people would look merely ridiculous in kitty ears, but somehow Justine still feels like the boss. This makes sense, because she’s a dominatrix. She’s got ideas for your Halloween goals this October. If you’d like to know more about her and perhaps get some more fun tips and tricks: go see her site Los Angeles Dominatrix.