All right you sick puppies. Obviously, since you're here, you're more ill than I thought. What follows are the darkest, grimmest, most hopeless links to some pretty wild stuff. Enjoy and tell your sick friends.
Jay Robinson is a creepy sort in the vein of Jack Palance and Gary Busey, eminently fit for diabolical madmen because merely looking at them is scary and watching them really act scary is more so. Once upon a time he hosted an avant-garde type show on the Discovery Channel called Beyond Bizarre.It was a grim little show, ruefully short-lived but hypnotizing with its morbid tableau of tales of the bizarre from here to beyond including but not limited to Mummification, Witchcraft, Anti-Aging machines, Cryptozoology and a whole host of eccentric topics.
This effort by severely disturbed programmer Dan Fleming asks you to fire cats out of a cannon and see how far you can get them to travel based not just on the angle and trajectory but on the heels of airborne and ground-based explosions (with foul things written on the side) and trampolines, the things to be missed being the ground (which will leave a bloody splotch with every collision) and the clusters of spikes on which your unlucky feline will be skewered.
Horror movie info and updates on the latest sick flicks.
A direly morbid place with oodles of deadly places for you to peruse.
Exhaustive advice on planning and execution of the total annihilation of the world. Kind of counterproductive I think, but hey...
A thorough Top 100 List of things not to do if you're planning a career as an evil mastermind, things to avoid when capturing a story's main character so you may reduce your chances of being thwarted.
This is an obscenely graphic and brutal site with absolutely everything you could ask for on it: a site about "adipocere," a.k.a. "corpse cheese," i.e., the liquefied body fat that seeps from a rotting body deep in the grave; links to autopsy photos, car accident pictures and virtually everything you could want or need to know about, well, death, dementia, the human body, mortality, gruesome misfortune, disease, health (or a lack of it), morbidity in any form and pretty much everything negative there is in the world. ;)
This site is absolutely sick, but I find myself playing it anyhow. In it you have a cryptically named "kitty hammer" with laser sight and a field of stainless steel pots, more like dutch ovens, wherefrom the evil kitties appear and slip back to their lairs. The object, as I have a feeling you figured out already, is to splatter their brains with your instrument of death. Send it to every PETA supporter you know. ;)
Want to know where Jim Morrison or Lady Di are laid to rest? How about your aunt Bertha or sister Clarice? See their stone, find directions to the plot, leave virtual flowers, etc.
How will the world end? By fire? By comet? Some tastefully chaotic amalgam of microbes, Osama bin Laden and blackholes plus a pole shift and a climate meltdown? However it happens, it will likely be by one of the insane but discomfortingly probable scenarios posted here.
Even with such a settling and inviting title, you may find it helpful - get burial insurance, advice on grief, last will and testament and even how to file a wrongful death suit, provided you're not the one who wrongfully died.
Its content you can guess: bios, stories, movie connections and "where are they now?" featurettes on serial killers, American and foreign, killing twosomes like Mickey and Mallory or Burke and Hare, botched robberies, murder attempts, plots, conspiracies and almost anything else you can think of for crimes past and current, tame and horrific.
"Offering cremated remains scattering services worldwide. During our lives many of us become enamored with or connected to certain places. Maybe they are places our ancestors came from or maybe that trip we took with someone special or perhaps that trip we never got to take. It is that place, that magical, special place that we hold dear. At Internation Scattering Society, we "get that." We understand that longing to be part of a certain area and began this scattering service to honor the requests of loved ones. Our goal is to provide an economical alternative to traditional scattering options." Really.
Maybe it's just me - and maybe it isn't - this is a rather sick idea where the ashes of a loved one are turned into a certified diamond. It may be done under the pretenses of "keeping them around" or "feeling them near" or something similar, but it's a bit weird when someone spots one of these at a company mixer or a housewarming party and says "oh, that's beautiful" and the wearer responds "you like it? It's my sister!" I would never want someone having me wrapped around their little finger, but I must admit that this jewelry is to die for.
"The Internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away." A ghastly look at the impermanence of life and certainty of the end. Good Lord. Anyhow, you fill in fields with age, "mode" i.e. pessimistic, optimistic or sadistic (?), BMI, smoking status and such and click the button to open a pop-up window with a large number equal to the seconds you have to live. You can choose to watch them tick away and feel the white hairs and liver spots popping up on your skin, your spine curving and teeth falling out, or you can click the little X button in the upper right. :) My personal date of death is (should be, anyway) Thursday, August 23, 2040. So if you don't see me after that, be sure someone from this site came after me just to save face. Have fun.
Most of the links here are for fun. This one is authentically tragic. In the '60s (when else) a certain medication perscribed to mothers all over Canada did its work and helped them sleep...but when they gave birth, it was all one big nightmare there was no waking from. Boys and girls by the thousands born with incomplete limbs, hands from their shoulders and horrifying other deformations. In true style they made lives for themselves beyond their disability, though few would actually call it that, but nonetheless it's a striking story.
"Really? I thought he was dead." You've heard this or more likely have said it. Want to know if certain famous people are still alive? Check here and see not only if they're dead, but what they died of.
The concept is to maintain people's websites after they die, but I'm afraid the idea itself is terminal considering that I recorded the link to this page several years ago in a separate Word file detailing my Favorite Sites and in that time it appear bupkis has happened, volunteers still being sought and even policies still being worked out. If it ever happens, maybe they'll keep this one up for me.
What do you do when someone has died, been murdered or killed themselves and their biological substances are all over the place, in the paint on the walls, in the carpet and generally all over the scene? How about a human packrat who lives like a garbage dump, piling things everywhere and never throwing anything away? Whatever the situation, if it's biohazardous there are severe health risks and they should be handled judiciously by calling trained and qualified personnel to take care of things.
Of the dozens of sites I've reviewed and posted thus far, these ones deserve special mention. They concern themselves either with Honoré de Fragonard and his Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort in Paris or Gunther von Hagens BODYWORLDS exhibits all over the world. The fame and significant controversy is in the displays - human bodies. Actual men and women preserved essentially with plastic and cut into artistic and instructional ways to show the bewildering complexity of the human body. Examples of Honoré's work is his best-known work Le Cavalier which is a skinned man riding atop a skinned horse, both very real, and a board loaded with horse's teeth. Gunther von Hagen's practices a more finessed way of stopping the decomposition of human tissue, skin and bone. Mind-blowing examples of his are a man split perfectly in half down the middle, a figure holding his own body suit of flesh in his muscly arm and other divided and designed scientific examples of what makes us tick.
If you're ever in (or are always in) Philly, drop by the Mütter Museum to see myriad oddities a la Ripley: a cast of the first official Siamese twins, the skeleton of the tallest man in the world, a tableau of thousands of things pulled from people's throats (no joke), antique medical devices and sundry elements of the medical profession.
Things that happened to someone six-times removed or to people never specified at all, wild events that show up on Mythbusters and are typically disproven (though they validate a few), are featured at these various sites. Alligators in the sewers, Pop Rocks and soda, the JATO car, what the great unspeakable word in English (you know what it is) allegedly stands for and thousands of other apocryphal tales born in the stream of Internet and/or real life gossip and fostered via a snowball effect until no one has any idea if they were ever real. Are they, aren't they, does anyone know?
Remove an engine block by loosening the bolts...from underneath? Drowning...in your kitchen sink? Jackhammering a hole in a concrete platform...while standing in the middle? Dying is usually a sad, bad thing...except when it happens to an idiot in a stup(id)efying way. My message to them: go ahead you stupid animal, purify the gene pool by electrocuting yourself in it.
Hate Teddy Bears? Don't want them to live? Watch them get torched, stretched and ripped to pieces at this lovely site.
If you're curious what the image above is or refers to, it's a digital recreation of what famed cartoonist and oddball Robert Ripley called "the most amazing accident that ever happened." It was a death-defying and revealing event that happened to Phineas Gage, a railway construction foreman who suffered severe injury to the brain when his tapered tamping iron shot out of a hole due to a premature charge detonation and went absolutely through his head under his left eye and out of the top of his head. He lived, but his personality underwent an unpredictable change that slowly led scientists to discover a correlation between portions of the brain and elements of one's self. It's beyond belief that he lived with an inch and a quarter hole in his head, but he did and his story is truly one to behold.
This is a third, yet another, cat-killing game, one where you drive a car through an endless neighborhood (the sides loop so you can never leave) and mow down people's furry pets into bloody splotches.
"Post Mortem Studio Rentals Corpses, Skeletons, and Body Parts are the right match for any budget. Custom Corpses can be built from the bones up, with blood, organs, connective tissue and skin all individually crafted for a life-like corpse ready to be opened up for an autopsy, hungry lions, or any other horrible injury. Or chose from any of our stock corpses and existing molds for the right degree of realism, and the right price. Life casting and prosthetic make-up are also available." Yep. :)
Want a video rental service that sends you only creepy, eerie things like what's featured on this site? Here y'are. You really don't have to thank me, I'd do it for anyone.
What it sounds like - New Releases, Advance Orders, Magazines, T-shirts, etc. All horror, all the time.
These links are from an artist I met at Horrorfind's Annual Convention 5 and 6, peddling his wares. He specializes in paintings done after iconic horror subjects, e.g. Pinhead, the ghoulish girl from Night of the Living Dead, Jason, etc. He also does a comic strip that follows the fated adventures of Nils, Willem, Dave and Shelby, a colorful lot if I may say so. Check 'em out and, if possible, catch up with him at one of the Horrorfind Conventions in Hunt Valley, usually in August.
One of the oldest horror sites on the Web, up since '99, the site features movie reviews, book reviews, posters for sale, etc. A necessary site if you're planning a horror expedition and want to know if it's worth your time. :)
Learn anything you want to know or find about just that; features current news related to D & D, as of 09/17/06 news of Steve Irwin's shocking death, Anna Nicole Smith's son's equally surprising demise and other topical articles.
I love sites that come out directly and tell you up front what it's about. Bloody Finger Mail enables the common man to replicate the ancient practice of writing in blood. Yup, it used to be prick your finger and write your letter, bleeding into a fountain pen. Now, you can enjoy the same privilege, "for those times when ink just doesn't cut it."
Why wait until you're going to die to figure out what's going to be said on your grave marker? Worse, why trust some living person after your demise to determine your permanent words to passersby? What if he chose some cliched, saccharine baloney to represent you in the beyond? Go here and get that puppy carved, if only electronically, and set your final affairs in stone.
Are you a modern practitioner of the ancient art of anthropophagy? If you're here on this site, chances are great you know what that means, but if not, it's this: cannibalism. Deliberate, straight mutilation of human bodies. Get a cookbook for the living meals in your life and learn how to fry 'em up right.
The Bone Room is a store in Berkeley specializing in natural history items. We're the place to come to for real bones, genuine fossils, quality bone and fossil replicas, exotic insects, and all manner of weird and wonderful things. Visiting us is like a trip to a mini-museum. We are a source for teachers, artists, illustrators, collectors and imaginative gift buyers.
Want to see dead people on the slab, being cut up and everything? JFK, Sharon Tate and the remains of the Lindbergh Baby, all here, all out in the open, in public domain.
Of course I would put a link to one of my own stories on here. It's shameless, yes, but it's here. Enjoy. Check back after I believe it's the first of October for another, It's a Wonderful House.
Speaking of houses, here is one of the most amazing ones in the world. The facts are outrageous, the story incredible, the entire episode real.
Hellhorror.com features dozens of horror movie reveiws, game and book reviews, banner exchange, forums and sundry untold other horrors. They are "a team of horror, fantasy and science fiction fans ranging from all ages and professions. We have experience in all aspects of horror movies, games, books, serial killers, unexplained mystery, demonology, vampires, werewolf, and promotional services. What started out as a hobby has turned into this massive online horror database." Won't you be their neighbor?
