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Tag Archives: horror
Goblin’ Up Cake
It certainly wouldn’t be Halloween without a cake to celebrate the occasion! This spider topped beauty is giving me a case of Halloween-orexia! It has all of the necessary components of horror – a jack-o-lantern face, a dismembered arachnid, and … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Step Away From The Pastry Bag
Tagged amateur, bakery, black, cake, diabetes, festive, frosting, gruesome, Halloween, holiday, horror, humor, Jack O' Lantern, orange, Philadelphia, pumpkin, spiders, Step Away From The Pastry Bag, web
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Vampire Blood!
This was sort of a forbidden fruit for kids growing up in the early 1970s.
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1970s, 1972, ad, bat, Charlton, comic, comics, Dr. Shock, gag, Halloween, horror, humor, monster, Philadelphia, prank, Steve Ditko, The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves, Vampire Blood, vintage, WPHL
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The Original Re-Animator
I wish I could summon the late, great John Williams to do my intros like the one below which was a staple of UHF television and has stuck in my head for years. …but I digress. Imagine John Williams saying … Continue reading
The Disney Pixar Edition
Welcome, dear readers, to another edition of Step Away From The Pastry Bag: The Disney Pixar Edition!
Posted in Mrs. Crankipants, Step Away From The Pastry Bag
Tagged bakery, Cars, Disney, horror, Mrs. Crankipants, Pixar, Step Away From The Pastry Bag
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Zombacalypse NOW
Last week I looked at the legendarily bad Plan 9 From Outer Space and the sadly forgotten Invisible Invaders both of which are forerunners to the modern zombie genre that George Romero kicked off with his classic Night of the … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Movie Matinee
Tagged 1964, Halloween, horror, Internet Archive, monster, pandemic, Richard Matheson, Roku, Romero, Vincent Price, zombie
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Hi – Yo, Sugar! Away!
Mrs. Crankipants here, with another installment of Step Away From The Pastry Bag! As much as I would hate to beat a dead horse, our friend Flicka in the photo above, looks as dead as Britney Spear’s career. I’m sure … Continue reading
Posted in Mrs. Crankipants, Step Away From The Pastry Bag
Tagged atrocity, bakery, cake, equine, Equus, frosting, horror, horse, humor, Lone Ranger, Mrs. Crankipants, Step Away From The Pastry Bag, sugar
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Dawn of the Home Video Revolution…Kingdom of the Spiders
This one is for frequent visitor and commenter JT who mentioned this cinematic marvel in the comments section of my last Dawn of the Home Video Revolution post. As luck would have it, Kingdom of the Spiders is one of … Continue reading


