Link Round-Up: October 30, 2015

"Unhinged" by Aaron Lovett

Celebrate like it's October 31, 1994! This music video is a cover of TLC's classic song "Creep" from 1994 and features a pumpkin-headed Creeper, a time/space portal, psychedelic flowers, silk pajamas, and a seductive mysterious crystal. What could possibly go wrong?!

The girl in the closet. The doomed nurse. The cave creature. Just a few of the best jump cuts in horror movie history.

A mysterious video, entitled "... 01101101 01110101 01100101 01110010 01110100 01100101" surfaced five months ago.  The cryptic video has evoked numerous speculations regarding its solution and the meaning behind the accompanying bizarre, sinister visual and audio effects.

Pseudopod 401: The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife Be careful what you wish for, and be careful of things with labels you can't read.

"Pumpkin-style" watermelon carvings, and "watermelon-style" pumpkin carvings, by 'sparksfly'

Scary stories for Halloween Guardian books writers select their favourite seasonal chillers
 

Webcomic artist Kris Straub is no stranger to creepypasta, from his classic of the genre "Candle Cove" to his ongoing comic "Broodhollow," and for Halloween this year he has come up with another snapshot of local TV gone very wrong: "local58.info"

While constructing a free ebook of the complete Lovecraft stories, Cthulhu Chick made a wordle of Lovecraft's corpus, and notes on word frequency. (Surprise: he only used "squamous" once.) Another fan has made a geopolitical map of Pangaea c. 252 million years ago. The Cthulhu Mythos Timeline explains what's going on.