Infocult: Uncanny Informatics

Behind you: well done creepy cartoons

Behind You is a fine series of creepy cartoons, somewhere in the dark, witty interzone between Chas Addams and Edward Gorey.  Each item is a slightly animated gif, with a caption below.  

By "slightly animated" know that many will look like static images.  Give them a few seconds to develop, even a half minute.  You'll see.

For example, this little story about an elevator:

For those of you following the Great Clown Panic of 2016, here's a good one:

These are cute and witty, like this one with a neatly bivalent caption. But there's also a bleakness to many, a sense of entropy and dread.  Children are often doomed by the world, as in this nearly Giger-esque example.

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Horror clown election day in America

The Hamburger Morgenpost offers this Infocultish plea to Americans on election day:

Bitte nicht den Horror-Clown!

Which Google suggests is, in English, "Do not ask the horror clown".

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Evil clown, JFK edition

From a presidential historian comes this terrifying antecedent to today's great clown panic, from Halloween 1963 and the Kennedy White House:

Hellraiser, 1950s style

This receives the Infocult seal of approval.  For you Hellraiser fans:

 

(thanks to Randy McCall)

Peanuts meets Lovecraft

Found on Facebook:

The gingerbread man encounters horror

Pity the season's gingerbread man, for what his ponderings reveal:

(thanks to Amanda for the pointer)

Tintin in Lovecraftland

Here's another Tintin mashup, taking Herge's hero through Lovecraft stories.

Covers only, alas:

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Time to peel off the parent's skin mask

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal offers this horrfic comic about families and masks:

Faithful Infocult minion Steven Kaye reminds us to click on the big red button on the page, below and to the right of the panel, for a bonus image.

Everyone should be reminded of this classic Gothic passage:

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.

Stranger: Indeed?

Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.

Stranger: I wear no mask.

Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

                          The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene 2

Love Lovecraft style

The excellent Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic offers a reflection on romance and HP Lovecraft.

Creepy back from the dead

Some classic Warren horror comics are available for free on the Internet Archive.  Runs of Creepy and Vampirella await you.

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