Grimes

Mansfield, Ohio

The Doors - Moonlight Drive

The Doors - People Are Strange

Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange

1912

Greenville, Ohio

Radio spot for Zombie

The Blenders - Graveyard

Cheyney

Wooster, Ohio

Sorry about the sun flare; I shot this at the wrongest time of day possible. When you get into town about once a year, you gotta shoot things when you can.

Radio spot for Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde (hilariously awesome)

Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes - Over the Rainbow (Thanks Steve and Steve's friend whose email I lost in the great crash of '08)

Unfinished

This mausoleum, part of the most awesomely rundown cemetery ever, has sat in this unfinished condition for probably 20 years.

Columbus, Ohio

Radio spot for Monsters Crash the Pajama Party

The Ramones - Pet Sematary

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Receiving Vault
Cedar Hill Cemetery
Newark, Ohio

David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

It's October 1st, and time to kick off the Halloween season! For the next month, every post will be Halloween-related, both the songs and photos (and a few videos and recipes, too). Warning: I haunt cemeteries all year long, so there will be lots of graveyard pictures. I'll try to keep them from getting too boring, though.

And thank you yet again to my talented friend Steve (aka Karswell) who created the Halloween version of my banner as well as the original (and don't think I haven't been dying, no pun intended, to show this one off).

As usual, AEAE is only one stop on the Halloween block party, and tomorrow, I'll have a list of links to other blogs celebrating all month!

The Echoing Trickle

Huntington Chapel
Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Imagine walking into a chapel/mausoleum in the middle of a sprawling old cemetery; the chapel is grandly beautiful, with windows by Tiffany. The moment you walk in, you hear a loud, echoing trickle. After a couple of turns, you find yourself in a newer area, again, grandly appointed.

Turn around and you see the fountain above, rusting, barely spitting out anything, but doing so very loudly.

Maybe it's the rust, or entropy obviously having its way with something in an otherwise immaculately maintained mausoleum, or just the water itself; sometimes, in the right context, even water can be eerie. Maybe it's the loud, insistent noise in such a ... deathly ... quiet environment. All I know, is that this is by far the most unsettling thing in the chapel.

Nick Cave - Red Right Hand
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell

Tales of the Crypt

More from Amaranth Abbey
Columbus, Ohio

Alice Cooper - Cold Ethel
Cliff Richard - Devil Woman

Finally Inside the Locked Mausoleum!

Amaranth Abbey
Columbus, Ohio

Phantom Planet - The Living Dead
Atlanta Rhythm Section - Spooky

Locked

whether in or out is up for argument
Northwood Cemetery
Cambridge, Ohio

Jonathan Coulton - RE: Your Brains

A little song (from a very funny man) about a go-getting, self-starting kind of zombie. A sample of the lyrics:

"All we want to do is eat your brains
We're not unreasonable
I mean, no one's going to eat your eyes
All we want to do is eat your brains
We're at an impasse here
Maybe we should compromise
Open up the door
We'll all come inside and eat your brains"

Duplex

Northwood Cemetery
Cambridge, Ohio

Vincent Price - How To See Ghosts Or Surely Bring Them To You

Deathly Cold

Mausoleum
Bellefontaine Cemetery

10,000 Maniacs - Like The Weather

Double Exposure

But I like it anyway. This is the Bucyrus Mausoleum co-starring the courtyard of the Franklin Park Conservatory .

So: Bucyrus/Columbus, Ohio

Double - The Captain Of Her Heart
Expose - Point Of No Return
Duran Duran - Girls on Film

Crypt

Pitman Crypt
Greenwood Cemetery
Zanesville, Ohio


Dave Bartholomew - Junk Man

Pic - Someone's Claustrophobic

The Little Crypt
Forest Rose Cemetery
Lancaster, Ohio

Pic - Interior, Pleasant Hill Mausoleum

Mausoleum (built in 1917)
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
West Jefferson, Ohio

Pic - Welcome To Paradise

The Gross Mausoleum
St. Joseph Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio