Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 3rd in the 2026 fall show . . .

smouldering on air on a whiff of patchouli incense in a long abandoned attic as somewhere between Hadrian’s Wall and the Hebrides in the mists of Scotland the Roman legionaries shiver . . . dusk and a fog, hail and something slippery that sticks . . . a yowl that is not human and then another . . . like the wild cats in Sinai but different . . . these shooting poison from the tips of their whiskers and not purring for sure . . . funeral mound of a long lost king and steps that ascend a few paces ahead and somewhere to hide . . . maybe whatever it is can’t climb . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it . . . the pumpkins are from katytrailmo.com

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-90a

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 1st in the 2026 fall show . . .

smoldering on air as somewhere at the edge of a faraway galaxy the feasting gets underway . . . gone soon in rockets with women with horned helmets for figureheads on the bow and mad dogs hissing lava and smoke on the stern . . . earth ready or not ready but no matter . . . sea storms to start up with giant pitchforks and a sun to play with and toss out into the Milky Way . . . fun . . . mead for now and the other tomorrow . . . the earthlings with one more day and then.

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The image is from the Instagram of @gardenclubbackbay.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-a99

Wall of pumpkins at Wilson Farm. 2024 image. Photo credit and © properbostonian.

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for the 30th of September in the MMXXVI fall show . . .

whistling in on a demonic wind making the sirens that lure sailors to ruin pull their sea otter wraps closer as the carved owl on top of the ancient sepulchre stretches her wings and takes flight . . . another dive bombing attempt and the funerary priest slips . . . into the grave he goes with the owl chasing after while the mourners flee . . .

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-ec0

Classic Harvest glass pumpkin. 2021. Leonoff Art Glass, maker. @leonoff_art_glass on Instagram. via Instagram.

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 28th in the 2026 show . . .

sparking on air as in the back of the lumberyard somewhere in the east a whisper and then a shriek . . . a geyser of boards up into the sky followed by pieces meant for staircases and then whatever is left . . . something beginning to inch back . . . wood better sold on a different island perhaps . . . doesn’t seem to want it here.

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The image is from @dennisonarchivist and is part of the Dennison Manufacturing Company Archives.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-354

Dennison Stalking Cat placecard. Early 1930s. @dennisonarchivist on Instagram. via Instagram.

Plates of palm trees leading their best 1864 life. Imagery of palm trees found in the Bible in the book “The Palm Tree,” written by Sophy Moody and published by T. Nelson in London. There were/still are/probably have always been lots of tourists heading for what was then the Levant and is now called the Middle East so a major need for items for them to buy and take home or buy after they got home.

Title page. Image 5 of The Palm Tree by Sophy Moody, author of What is your Name, The Fairy Tree, etc. with illustrations by the author. Published in 1864 in London by T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row; Edinburgh, and New York. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/palmtree00mood_0/page/n5/mode/1up
Palm of the Plain. Image 51 of The Palm Tree by Sophy Moody, author of What is your Name, The Fairy Tree, etc. with illustrations by the author. Published in 1864 in London by T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row; Edinburgh, and New York. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/palmtree00mood_0/page/n51/mode/1up
Palm of the Forest. Image 176 of The Palm Tree by Sophy Moody, author of What is your Name, The Fairy Tree, etc. with illustrations by the author. Published in 1864 in London by T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row; Edinburgh, and New York. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/palmtree00mood_0/page/n176/mode/1up
Coco Palms. Image 231 of The Palm Tree by Sophy Moody, author of What is your Name, The Fairy Tree, etc. with illustrations by the author. Published in 1864 in London by T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row; Edinburgh, and New York. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/palmtree00mood_0/page/n231/mode/1up
Image 232 of The Palm Tree by Sophy Moody, author of What is your Name, The Fairy Tree, etc. with illustrations by the author. Published in 1864 in London by T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row; Edinburgh, and New York. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/palmtree00mood_0/page/n232/mode/1up
Palm of the River. Image 247 of The Palm Tree by Sophy Moody, author of What is your Name, The Fairy Tree, etc. with illustrations by the author. Published in 1864 in London by T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row; Edinburgh, and New York. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/palmtree00mood_0/page/n247/mode/1up
Palm of the Mountain. Image 338 of The Palm Tree by Sophy Moody, author of What is your Name, The Fairy Tree, etc. with illustrations by the author. Published in 1864 in London by T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row; Edinburgh, and New York. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/palmtree00mood_0/page/n338/mode/1up

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 27th in the 2026 fall show . . . a stormy day here with the sun shining somewhere but not on me

meandering on air as behind the altar in the old abandoned temple a mighty roar tears the old crack asunder . . . the ancient gods never really gone . . . a world and it’s old ways just behind the veil of this one . . .

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-32f

Ceramic pumpkins. British. Penkridge Ceramics, artist. Taken from their Instagram.

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for the 25th of September in the 2026 fall show . . .

spinning in air as the winds start to swirl and the ancient soothsayer in the back of the last grotto awakens . . . a fortune to forecast and not a minute too soon . . . a hissing of who knows what followed by dried up and dead flower buds moving in vast circles as though they were atop waves on a shiny sea like the ones they sacrifice to the sea goddess every year . . .

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

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-73f

Serpent bracelet. 1850. French. Gold, diamond, opal, ruby and enamel.Maker not known. via pinterest.com.

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 23rd in the 2026 fall show . . .

sparking on air as in the depths of a mansion abandoned to the waves a mutant raptor grows and grows . . . out when the next storm comes and takes away the roof . . . hopefully out to sea but maybe not . . . time to hope . . . time to fear . . .

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-b07

Devils food cake with a ganache topping. The flames are made from spun sugar colored with food coloring. Johnny Miller, photographer @marthastewart on Instagram. Taken from her Instagram.

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for the 22nd of September in the 2026 fall show . . .

meandering on air on the tip of a cloud soaring over the sea as way to the south where the frozen seas meet the sky a buzzing and then a spark . . . bees it is but of a different kind . . . rising in a ball to blot out the sun and then starting to grow . . . sideways in an endlessly circling ribbon and then beginning to tilt as they head towards the land . . . tips of their wings shooting off things that look like sparklers stuck in a baked alaska but not of the celebratory kind . . . just what are they for even the bees cannot say . . . oh no . . . a ship sunk with a shock from one . . . time to hide . . . the cave down on the beach . . . a climb down the cliff and into the water . . . just needing the tide a little up . . . that would work.

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The pumpkins image is from the Instagram of Parlee Farms in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-005

An envisioning. 2008. Saturday and eleven o’clock heading into eleven thirty, at the apartment on Fifth Avenue.

Oh to be here.

New York with the tweens all sitting on the sofa clutching their cell phones while the sourdough bread rises in the kitchen. A new Martha Stewart recipe and a husband who doesn’t always like those, but all the strange herbs left out. Hopefully it will taste like his grandmother’s bread. Living in memory, it is, with hot loaves left to cool on racks and grandchildren who dug out the middle with a spoon and snacked away, the butter running down their chins. That wonderful, but trying to capture every bread moment in real time impossible.

my new 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-2008-saturday-and

Aerial yoga at Earth and Aerial Yoga, Hudson, Massachusetts USA. 2026 image. American. Image © Earth and Aerial Yoga. Fair use license. From their website.

Cote d’Azure, French Riviera. baptistebohu on Instagram but found on Pinterest.