The 13 Days of Creepmas Are HERE!

Welcome to Day One of the 13 Days of Creepmas! At the moment, we have 55 blogs participating, listed for your perusing pleasure on the right.

To kick things off, I've posted a photo set of my Creepmas Scarecrows and Creepmas Tree on Flickr, and Monster Mashup / Paul Cheekyboy have put together a fantastic musical mashup EP just for us! Get it FREE at http://www.monstermashups.co.uk/! I can't wait to see what the rest of you are doing on your blogs! MERRY CREEPMAS, EVERYBODY!

Only 3 Days 'til CREEPMAS!

Black Friday? Cyber Monday? Aren't those goth club nights? Well, doesn't matter, they're all but behind us now, and now it's time for CREEPMAS! If you're interested in participating, it's not too late!

"Scary Christmas" changing portrait by Haunted Memories

Crazy Christmas Postcards from 1955

Hey there Hallowday Haunters! If you had at least one eyeball on this year's Countdown to Halloween, you may have seen artist Brad McGinty offering up his Halloween ode to the Mars Attacks! trading cards as seen here.

He's back with some crazy Christmas postcards, that I'll think you'll agree, would be well received by any Creepmas celebrant. Click on the image below to visit his site to read the ingenious tale of how these devilish delights found their way from 1955 to him. And Brad's such a cool guy if you order some cards from him, he'll send you an original sketch too!

Countdown to Creepmas: Hallowday Music

Rather than wait until the 13 Days of Creepmas to suggest music to haunt your Hallowdays, I thought it'd make sense to post a little early so you can get the music discussed in this post and have it ready to go on December 1st!

Following are some tried-and-true creepy Christmas tunes that will be old news to some of you, and a joyous discovery for others. Click the titles/cover art to get them.

If you have ideas/links for other similarly spooky Hallowday music, post'em in the comments!

A SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
Kris Knight's lovely piano renditions of holiday classics with a decidedly macabre flair.

TALES FROM THE CRYPT: HAVE YOURSELF A SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

The Crypt Keeper shows his Hallowday Spirit with these 15 Christmas SCARE-ols. Long out of print, Vinnie Rattolle has made it available for your listening displeasure!

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS: HAUNTED MANSION HOLIDAY

Disney produced a number of NBC-styled Christmas Scarols for their annual conversion of the Haunted Mansion into Jack Skellington's Hallowday Playground. These tracks were released as part of a much larger CD set from Disney years ago, and you may be able to scare them up in some of the sketchier parts of the web, but Vinnie Rattolle has 16 minutes of the music and dialogue HERE.

HOLIDAY HORRORS: A FRIGHTFULLY FUN COMPILATION OF SEASONAL SONGS

Last year, the Universal Horror Sounds blog put out a great, downloadable spooky Hallowday mix, and it's still available!

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Give us your favorite Creepmas music picks in the comments!

New CREEPMAS Badges from MONSTERFINK!

Tom "Monsterfink" Krohne made some really cool CREEPMAS badges for you to use!

KRAMPUS Badge by Tom Krohne - 150 px Wide - Just Copy and Paste the following html code:

<a href="http://www.creepmas.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://pumpkincult.com/images/Creepmas_Krohne_Krampus_150px_2011.png" alt="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" title="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" border="0" /></a>

KRAMPUS Badge by Tom Krohne - 200 px Wide - Just Copy and Paste the following html code:

<a href="http://www.creepmas.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://pumpkincult.com/images/Creepmas_Krohne_Krampus_200px_2011.png" alt="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" title="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" border="0" /></a>

Santa Badge by Tom Krohne - 150 px Wide - Just Copy and Paste the following html code:

<a href="http://www.creepmas.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://pumpkincult.com/images/Creepmas_Krohne_Santa_150px_2011.png" alt="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" title="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" border="0" /></a>

Santa Badge by Tom Krohne - 200 px Wide - Just Copy and Paste the following html code:

<a href="http://www.creepmas.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://pumpkincult.com/images/Creepmas_Krohne_Santa_200px_2011.png" alt="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" title="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" border="0" /></a>

Reindeer Badge by Tom Krohne - 150 px Wide - Just Copy and Paste the following html code:

<a href="http://www.creepmas.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://pumpkincult.com/images/Creepmas_Krohne_Reindeer_150px_2011.png" alt="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" title="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" border="0" /></a>

Reindeer Badge by Tom Krohne - 200 px Wide - Just Copy and Paste the following html code:

<a href="http://www.creepmas.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://pumpkincult.com/images/Creepmas_Krohne_Reindeer_200px_2011.png" alt="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" title="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" border="0" /></a>

How to Participate In CREEPMAS!

Participation in The 13 Days of Creepmas is easy! Following the methodology of the Countdown to Halloween, The 13 Days of Creepmas is open to any blog that posts spooky content from December 1 - 13. While the primary focus is on permuted and subverted holiday imagery and traditions (i.e., giving Christmas the Jack Skellington treatment), Creepers (blogs who sign up) are welcome to post *any* spooky material to qualify as participants. The main thing is to bring that Halloween Spirit into the first 2 weeks of December, just as every store in America has brought Christmas into October.

If you'd like to add your blog to the festivities, either leave a comment or tweet the Cult of the Great Pumpkin (they're helping us out with this) with your blog link. Easy peasy! See the previous post for web graphics/code to add to your blog.

The usual disclaimers apply: No porn, no hate, no idiocy. This is about how YOU are getting creepily creative for the Hallowdays, not how you can ruin it for somebody else. Any blogs found to be engaging in or promoting sabotage, vandalism, etc. will be removed.

CREEPMAS Badges for Your Site!

There may be more to follow, but for now, grab the code at the size you need and help spread the word that you, too, are a Creepmas CREEP!

200 px Wide - Just Copy and Paste the following html code:

<a href="http://www.creepmas.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://pumpkincult.com/images/Creepmas-2011-200px-wide.png" alt="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" title="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" border="0" /></a>

150 px Wide - Just Copy and Paste the following html code:

<a href="http://www.creepmas.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://pumpkincult.com/images/Creepmas-2011-150px-wide.png" alt="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" title="I'm a CREEP for The 13 Days of CREEPMAS" border="0" /></a>

Declare Yourself

While graphics are being created and a system worked out for this website and Creepmas in general, comment on this post to declare your interest in being part of CREEPMAS, and, of course, "Join this site" on the top right, there.

As AEIOU suggested, we're going to follow Countdown to Halloween's format, and it's going to be The 13 Days of Creepmas. Stay tuned, Creeps! Get ready for Happy Hallowdays!

We're Marshalling Our Forces...

Stay tuned while we figure this thing out. In the meanwhile, read THIS.