swishing on air on the last knot of a Persian carpet as the weaver smiles as somewhere far beyond where the southernmost sea blows wild and free the ice starts to move . . . a huge penguin perhaps . . . the widow of the last man alive come back to find him . . . or maybe a polar bear from far away that hopped a ride on the wrong ice floe . . . impossible to know . . . but plumes of something that rise into the air and a spectral sounding kind of splash . . . life’s a mystery . . . maybe your grandbaby will learn of it in her schoolbook . . . maybe not

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The pumpkins in the thumbnail are from Parlee Farms in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-1a4

slipping on air as from the depths of a Denali crevasse a moan rises as the scientist begins lowering his instruments down . . . someone fallen down it and the charts saying at least another twenty years . . . but no . . . turned into a wraith and tired of being poked . . . another spot would have been better but too late now . . . get ready . . . happening now . . .

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

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-176

Ideas for children’s costumes for a Halloween party, taken from Dennison’s 1921 Bogie Collection. via @dennisonarchivist on Instagram. via Instagram.

sparking on air as in somewhere in rural Europe a broomstick rises into the air . . . an old coven it was that met by the stone circle where the land meets the sky . . . or so said grandmother and she was always right . . . troubled they must be or else they would not rise . . . something brewing somewhere . . . but no . . . the broomstick turned and sweeping away . . . . first to the left and then ahead . . . time to run but here comes another . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. Thanks! https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-56b

Sphinxes who guard the entrance to the Elizabeth Street Garden in New York City. Image ca. 2025. Photographer not given but under copyright. @elizabethstreetgarden on Instagram. via Instagram.

sparking on air on the last whine of a werewolf’s screech as the winds pick up and the old cries begin to rise . . . people not listening to the new gods and the ancient ones starting to inch back . . . swirls of sand and dust with the outline of something or someone in silvery robes, a thing that looks like a spear merged with a Victorian pickle fork and a golden crown that sparks off the stars up in the heavens . . . the lord of the mountains and the moon making his return . . . lightning bolts bouncing off up into the clouds and then down making the earth where they hit bounce . . . be careful . . . very careful

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-8bf

Winslow family mausoleum, Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, Massachusetts USA. Byzantine Revival so built in the mid 1920s. American. 2022 image via sipseyheadstonecleaning on Instagram. via Instagram.

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 out 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 they are 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 if you’d to see the rest. Thank you!

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-2f6

hissing on air as in the inner depths of an archeological dig far from anywhere the golden serpents in their nest amongst the dead king’s burial goods wiggle their way out, flashing their emerald eyes and gnashing their diamonded up fangs . . . the assistant with his trowel and then the head man with his charts and maps . . . no . . . the archeologist’s girlfriend surrounded and entwined and gone in a golden mist . . . the volcano at the other end of the island next . . . an eruption to cause . . . that’ll enliven up the afternoon . . .

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-4ea

Dennison Hallowe’en Jack-o-Lanterns seals. 1920s. American. Dennison Manufacturing Company Archives. dennisonarchivist on Instagram. From their Instagram.

whispering on air as the children walk by the old abandoned house and the trees start to sway . . . the wind or isn’t it . . . supposed to haunted with someone who grew up there crashing in a glider in a far distant place in the skies over France . . . making things sway for it was the wind he flew on and the dying of it that took him . . . who can tell . . . back that way after school and maybe gone . . . maybe not . . .

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

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

Embroidered beetle in stump work. ca. 2012. British. Michelle Carragher, artist. Embroideress for The Game of Thrones. via michelecarragherembroidery.com.

effervescing on the breath of a grandfather lion as his daughter’s cubs leap on his tail as somewhere in South America in an abandoned pet shop something starts to happen . . . the animals taking over . . . perhaps two legged ones to turn into pets for pythons . . . perhaps not . . . maybe to be kept to dance for the giraffes over at the zoo instead . . . hmmm . . .

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https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-0e3

Mourning ring in memory of French king Louis XVI ca. 1815. Reeded tortoiseshell set with a central gold band engraved with a memorial inscription. Maker not known. Royal Collection Trust.