#creepy christmas

[catspawcreates]

These lyrics align with Moon way too perfectly. I’m so happy with this and how quickly it came together even though I only had half an idea. Drawn live on TikTok last night.

-lyrics from Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Last panel inspired by @fledermaus.freak on IG

[dendrilart]

This is a Schnabelperchten, an entity local to the Rauris Valley in Austria. They’re similar to Perchten, serving as motivators for good behavior. In the Schnabelperchten’s case, they come to check you’ve kept your home tidy. If it’s not, they have huge shears to enact their punishment and cut open your stomach to ‘clean’ you out! ✂️🧹💨

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[deathbydyingpod]

You come home for the holidays – no one is there. The whole neighborhood’s a ghost town. Snow suffocates the street in deathly silence. The same Christmas song plays on the radio, over and over. The snowmen watch you, knowing, smiling… it's the Gothic Vibes of December.

[sushisusii]

😈You better watch out, i'm coming for all you naughty ones

[jenjen4280]

A nice day undecking the hallowed halls and redecking creepy Xmas. The Hot Wife had the idea that we’d have the skeletons slowly decorate the yard for Xmas, then they’d disappear. My contribution was adding a lighted red nose to the reindeer skeleton.

Then I popped some corn and we watched the NWSL Championship, and read together during halftime. 24 years in and we still hold hands. ❤️

[busan-punk]

ho ho ho emo traz presentes.

[rasalo]

Loop + sound loop

[robsheridan]

Deck the halls, trim the tree, O̸̥͆Ṕ̶̰E̴͎̋N̵͎̎ ̶̹̽T̷̤̍Ḩ̷̅Ḛ̵̂ ̷̪͌V̴̛͓O̶̦͘I̴̯͗D̸̞̕, and release the gift of screaming interdimensional hellskulls, because it’s time for TALES FROM DIMENSION X-MAS.

I conjured these scenes using AI for my 2022 holiday cards, included here with some extras and outtakes. Tech notes: Made with the very first release of MidJourney V4 which had some fascinatingly chaotic compositions and misunderstandings that sent my ideas into realms of delightfully manic absurdity. The current V4 is much more coherent and polished in its representations, and that’s fine, but it’s the glitches and the broken-computer violations of reason that I love, so I will cherish these temporary masterpieces of retro pulp-horror madness.

[mummym6]

Oh Santa....

[horror-heks]

[adarkrainbow]

I recently stumbled upon the Instagram/Tumblr account of "Mister Sam Shearon", a macabre photo-realistic artist who is known to have recently illustrated various books about monsters and supernatural beings from the folklore of various USA states.

He notably did for (two Christmases in a row apparently?) a series of creepy Christmas cards called "Merry Macabre"

Some are actual creepy folkloric creatures and legendary monsters from Christmas beliefs. Such as the Nuuttipukki...

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... the Belsnickel...

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... or the Schnabelperchten:

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Other times he simply took regular Christmas figures and made them creepier, from the Ghosts of A Christmas Carol...

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To "Santa Claws".

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But the reason I make a post about this is because he also did his version of Andersen's Snow Queen, which you can check here if you want:

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[thruhaliasart]

The Mari Lwyd is a South Wales wassailing folk custom dating back to at least 1880, consisting of a hobby horse with a real horse skull mounted on a pole, carried by someone hidden beneath a sackcloth. The end result is so delightfully creepy that I of course had to try my hand at it. Merry Christmas! Drawn with metallic gold calligraphy ink with a paintbrush and dip pen, Prismacolor pencils, white gel pen and Copic markers on smooth Bristol board with just a tiny bit of digital tweaking. I had a *lot* of fun with this.

[deathbydyingpod]

You thought Halloween was over because of the holidays? THINK AGAIN, FOOL. Slap a santa hat on your skeletons, decorate your gingerbread men with blood, and spike your eggnog with nightshade, we ride at midnight, bitches.

[jengrayart]

Jack Frost/ Winter

This one is in the Winter art book now on sale through Monday, Nov. 28th!

[bizarreauhavre]

Creepy Christmas

[witchyfashion]

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