Stop, A Head

This wonderfully gruesome mummified head prop comes to use from the appropriately named Blind Dead Relics.

 

Mummified Vampire Heart

I love seeing alternate takes on subjects I've done myself.  In this case, Levi Combs of Planet X Games shares his version of a mummified vampire heart.  That includes a look at how he actually made it:

"I found the box at a yard sale. Got the heart from a Halloween Express and then coated it with multiple layers of adhesive and ash from my fireplace to give it a withered color/texture/look. The pages were taken from a small book inside the Hellboy Special Edition DVD."

Reproducing the texture of very old mummified body parts using layers of ash is a brilliant idea.  

 

 

Berserker's Thorns

These are most definitely not LARP safe.

 Blacksmith Tyler McCormick brings us his Berserker's Thorns, a matched pair of hand forged axes.

 

 

Big in Japan

For once the YouTube algorithm kicked out a banger.

If you're a Call of Cthulhu tabletop player you're probably aware the game has a huge following in Japan.  What I never actually grasped is that Chaosium's creation effectively is tabletop roleplaying there.  The Weird Place channel has a great look at some of the cultural quirks that made that happen.  

There's a lot to digest here.  I was vaguely aware of how important "Record of the Lodoss War" was to popularizing pen and paper RPGs, but never realized CoC campaign recaps were so insanely popular with the Japanese fanbase.  More importantly, now I know why a Japanese schoolgirl and her friends pop up whenever I Google "Nyarlathotep".

 

Giant Cthulhu Animatronic

Thanks to Alibaba, you can purchase a massive animatronic Cthulhu from the Gengu Dinosaurs Technology Company in China.  Just $6,380, not including shipping.  It's a goofy sculpt, but the fact it exists at all is absolutely mind-boggling.  Click through on the link to see a video of this beast in action.

What a time to be alive. 

 

Wilbur Whately

 

It was partly human, beyond a doubt, with very man-like hands and head, and the goatish, chinless face had the stamp of the Whateleys upon it. But the torso and lower parts of the body were teratologically fabulous, so that only generous clothing could ever have enabled it to walk on earth unchallenged or uneradicated.

- H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror 

This incredible sculpt of Wilbur Whately from Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" comes to us from professional motion picture makeup artist and designer Joel Harlow.  I'd love to see this maquette translated into a CGI creature.

 

Shrunken Head

MonsterLabs Studios is back with this excellent recreation of a traditional tsanta, or shrunken head.  What really sells this is the pore work on the skin.