"The Scariest of the Lot!" - Hallowe'en 2021

We stopped looking for monsters under our beds

when we realized that they were inside us.

- Charles Darwin

Greetings mortals and welcome to this spooky special Hallowe'en post on The Art of Caesura!

Autumn is my favourite season and Hallowe'en is (among) my favourite holiday(ies), so it seems only appropriate that we should have a bit of a celebration for it!

Last year, I bamBOOzled you with a Hallowe'en pub quiz, this year I'll terrorize you with my top 5 creepiest models that have appeared on the blog thus far!

Number 5: The Hybrid

Let's cast our minds waaaaaays back to when this blog was just a nascent, amorphous collection - much like this model's head. Indeed, this model was one of the very first that I painted on the blog way back in March 2016! It is still one of the creepiest, the alien head (which I further horrified with its pale, larval pate and wet, glossy finish) not to mention the human head - from which it has just emerged.

Number 4: Preyton

While not quite as graphic as The Hybrid above, (though this model does have ribbons of flayed flesh hanging from its antlers and maw) the Preyton is something of a psychological horror. It's one of the worst case scenarios of what your mind might conjure in answer to "what made that sound? Was that a twig snapping behind me?" when you're out walking in the woods at night.

Number 3: Reichbusters Zombies

I was going to put the servitor, X-101 in here because being a lobotomized, monotask lump of meat would be a pretty horrifying way to spend one's time, but these guys just eked him out. In terms of creepy factor: zombies...tick; Nazis...tick; creepy amalgams of flesh and metal...tick. These guys have got it all!

Number 2: Malifaux Abominations

Now this one is a bit of a cheat because I painted four Malifaux Abominations and I just can't decide which is the creepiest. I mean look at them! They're really rocking the body-horror. I'll let you decide...is it: Headley? Hugster? Snaky? or Sawhawk?

Number 1: The Hungering Darkness / Mourngul

For me, the Mourngul takes the cake! I painted it when I was getting into Malifaux as a stand-in for the crappy Huggy D version of The Hungering Darkness. I think that moniker totally suits this model. It really looks like the darkness has taken form (the most horrifying form imaginable) and will stop at nothing to get to you with its empty, soulless eyes, and insatiable maw!

Yikes! I hope I didn't scare the bejesus out of you and that you'll still come back next week for more on The Art of Caesura!

Watching: Midnight Mass - Mike Flanagan

Reading: Blindsight - Peter Watts

Next Week:

Suffer not the unclean to live...

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