Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 17 in the 2026 fall show . . .

sparking in air as somewhere in the back of the beyond the monks in the upper reaches of the abandoned monastery church begin to chant . . . stained glass windows gone to shards and the floor of the nave to grass . . . a peek in on tiptoes as the procession begins . . . incense in front being swayed in arcs and a cat and donkey in the back making the most dreadful howls . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link-

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-fa9

Marshmallow Pumpkin Cupcake Toppers. Campfire Marshmallows. Taken from their Instagram account.

An envisioning. 2023 and mid-afternoon, arriving to the toot of the school bus driver’s horn at the house outside Nome.

Oh to be here.

Alaska and more snow than anyone can dance through unless you are a polar bear cub playing tag with your cousin one ice floe over.

my new envisioning/short fiction piece published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to read the rest.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-2023-and-mid-afternoon

Image © 2026 Biscuiteers at Fortnum and Mason. Fair use license. https://www.biscuiteers.com/en-us/blogs/news/biscuiteers-at-fortnum-and-masons-new-biscuitorium

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 16th in the 2026 fall show . . .

whirling in air on the wail of a zephyr’s last gasping breath as on a secluded beach somewhere in the southern seas the necromancer puts down his magic spear and stares into the whorls of mother-of-pearl in an ancient oyster shell . . . things to save and things to let go and who to survive . . . another few days and it will be known . . . you to go or maybe me

My series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-584

The image is a pop up card

An envisioning. 2017 and dawn at the house on Chapaquoit Harbor with the birds starting to caw as they get ready to dive for their breakfast.

Oh to be here.

Maine. Summer inching its way in past the mounds of old seaweed on the beach. The man from the kayak rental place three coves down making his way past the seals, waving his leather hat with its fading brown feather. Even the clouds in the sky looking like they are about to dance.

my new short fiction piece at the link in case you’d like to read the rest. The image is from a January 1971 McCalls pattern book which I found on Ravelry (also on etsy)

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-2017-and-dawn-at-the

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 15th in the 2026 show . . . not officially fall yet but soon enough . . .

sparking off the talons of the raptor up on the statue’s head out in the cemetery as he looks around for a treat dinner to take home to his wife . . . a juicy mouse creeping out from under a mausoleum door . . . maybe . . . where there’s one there’s two . . . the mausoleum ones the best . . . all those flowers and casket juices and things that the undertakers toss in making anything that eats them smell better . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. the image is an antique Egyptian Revival poison ring.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-f1a

Plant and other fun pictures, one looking like a dill pickle with leaves producing chlorophyll into the forever time. Imagery from Gedichte Ludwigs des Ersten, Königs von Bayern. (Poems of Ludwig I, King of Bavaria. Third edition) which was published in Munich in 1839. He was the grandfather of Ludwig II, the Mad King of Bavaria.

Page 28 of Gedichte Ludwigs des Ersten, Königs von Bayern, Third Edition. Published in Munich in 1839 by the Literary-Artistic Institute of the J. G. (Johann Friedrich) Cotta Publishing House. Collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/00104104bsb/page/n28/mode/1up
Page 15 Image 40 of Gedichte Ludwigs des Ersten, Königs von Bayern, Third Edition. Published in Munich in 1839 by the Literary-Artistic Institute of the J. G. (Johann Friedrich) Cotta Publishing House. Collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/00104104bsb/page/15/mode/1up
Page 69 Image 94 of Gedichte Ludwigs des Ersten, Königs von Bayern, Third Edition. Published in Munich in 1839 by the Literary-Artistic Institute of the J. G. (Johann Friedrich) Cotta Publishing House. Collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/00104104bsb/page/69/mode/1up
Page 155 Image 180 of Gedichte Ludwigs des Ersten, Königs von Bayern, Third Edition. Published in Munich in 1839 by the Literary-Artistic Institute of the J. G. (Johann Friedrich) Cotta Publishing House. Collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/00104104bsb/page/155/mode/1up
Page 71 of Gedichte Ludwigs des Ersten, Königs von Bayern, Third Edition. Published in Munich in 1839 by the Literary-Artistic Institute of the J. G. (Johann Friedrich) Cotta Publishing House. Collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/00104104bsb/page/71/mode/1up

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 14th in the 2026 fall show . . .

sparking on air as up where the mountain maidens sleep life away in their ice caves they awaken, blinking their eyes as they walk outside . . . it all not looking like it did when Mama was alive . . . no . . . the glacier inching into slush with half frozen old boyfriends that got tossed into a crevasse when they got too boring popping back up and little human ones with backpacks and beards inching up in bright red wellington boots and mittens . . . new boyfriends for sure . . . is it better to be one when it all collapses . . . maybe yes or maybe no

my series post for today published on my Substack at the link. The mini mercury pumpkins in the image are from Amazon.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-bbe

Editorial fashion from 1918. These are meant as examples and are from the book “Costume Design and Illustration” which was written by Ethel Traphagen. There are more of these but these are, I think, the most charming. Well the Paquin one (the first) with what was no doubt the head of one of the big cats as the whiskers and eyes have been kept along with the ears. So not exactly charming but still it’s Paquin so worth a look.

LES COLCHIQUES. Manteau de voyage de Paquin. From a 1913 color illustration by G. (George) Barbier. Courtesy of Vogue, New York Representatives of the Gazette du Bon Ton. Page 93 of Ethel Traphagen’s Costume Design and Illustration. Published in New York in 1918 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc and by Chapman and Hall in London. Its open library but Ms. Traphagen died in 1961 so it should still be under her copyright. Fair use license. via https://archive.org/details/costumedesignill0000ethe/page/n93/mode/1up
Frontispiece. Page 9 of Ethel Traphagen’s Costume Design and Illustration. Published in New York in 1918 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc and by Chapman and Hall in London. Its open library but Ms. Traphagen died in 1961 so it should still be under her copyright. Fair use license. via https://archive.org/details/costumedesignill0000ethe/page/n9/mode/1up
Figure 22. Modern fashions by Helen Dryden which show influence of Kate Greenaway. Courtesy of Vogue. Page 16 Image 35 of Ethel Traphagen’s Costume Design and Illustration. Published in New York in 1918 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc and by Chapman and Hall in London. Its open library but Ms. Traphagen died in 1961 so it should still be under her copyright. Fair use license. via https://archive.org/details/costumedesignill0000ethe/page/n35/mode/1up
Figure 97. Editorial magazine fashion work in which color Ben Day is used. Drawing by Reta Singer. Courtesy of Good Housekeeping. Page 64 Image 85 of Ethel Traphagen’s Costume Design and Illustration. Published in New York in 1918 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc and by Chapman and Hall in London. Its open library but Ms. Traphagen died in 1961 so it should still be under her copyright. Fair use license. via https://archive.org/details/costumedesignill0000ethe/page/n85/mode/1up
Drawn by Robert Henry for Félix Jungmann and Cie, Paris. Image 92 of Ethel Traphagen’s Costume Design and Illustration. Published in New York in 1918 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc and by Chapman and Hall in London. Its open library but Ms. Traphagen died in 1961 so it should still be under her copyright. Fair use license. via https://archive.org/details/costumedesignill0000ethe/page/n92/mode/1up
From a colored cover design by Brunelleschi. Courtesy of Harpers Bazaar. Image 209 of Ethel Traphagen’s Costume Design and Illustration. Published in New York in 1918 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc and by Chapman and Hall in London. Its open library but Ms. Traphagen died in 1961 so it should still be under her copyright. Fair use license. via https://archive.org/details/costumedesignill0000ethe/page/n209/mode/1up

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 12th in the Year of Our Lord MMXXVI

effervescing in air on the growl of an ancient wolf as she creeps out on silent feet from her lair somewhere in the very north of Scotland . . . a paw here and a paw there . . . crofters in their cottages to creep up on under a harvest moon and creatures to stalk down by the sea . . . where next with a wraith in raven form to lead the way . . . who can tell . . . better to try to hide . . . if you can

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. The image is by @thevisualdome on Instagram https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-9c1

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 11th in the 2026 show 

smashing into a muddy field in western Pennsylvania with my fellow Franklin and Marshall College alumnus, Mark Rothenberg, who was on that plane. And now to the art.

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it-

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-c1c

Unique Tannery Pearson Mini Beast. Sculpture. 2014. American. Haas Brothers creator. via news.artnet.com.