Platterarchnid

A tabletop dessert cloche thingy, whatever the heck they're called, that stands spider-like atop a bunch of finger bones. Impress the grisly guests at your diabolic dinner with a fell abomination that can fiendishly ferry dread desserts from one putrid plate to the next. Hopefully they'll overlook that they're just store bought twinkies with green food coloring. You're a necromancer, not a baker

Autumnal Mummy

This big-headed mummy seems rather ordinary at first, but why does it look like there's a pinecone growing from the top of its head? Maybe that's supposed to represent hair, but it literally looks like a pinecone hatching out of the scalp. The mummy also carries an oil lantern in one hand, and drags a pumpkin around by its long stem in the other hand. None of these things really aesthetically go with mummies. Perhaps they go with a kid wearing a mummy costume for Halloween, theoretically, in some 1800's world where Halloween already existed in the 1800's, but then there's the grey flesh and huge, orange eyeballs.

I Still Wish This Were a Different Color

A human skull made of, or entirely covered in, dribbling oozing slime is a very cool visual indeed. Especially how it's suspended on a short "neck" of slime pooling under it, bringing to mind some sort of sentient slithering slimeskull. What makes me hesitate is that all of these at our Homegoods are white.

A Proud Mama

Many people think of skulls as creepy, and are afraid of them. But did you know!?! Skull has one of nature's most powerful maternal instincts. Mother skull will not eat for the entire six months she is guarding her developing sklittens.

An Actually Transparent Ghost?!

This is a simple, generic, smiling sheet ghost design, but it's hollow and it's made entirely of pearly, clear glass, and I just can't believe that such an obvious thing is this rare. I think this is the very first crystal-clear ghost statue we've ever even seen in 20 some years of this website. It looks great! It looks like a happy, tiny ghost is really there! AHHH!!! That totally almost scared me for real!!!!! So did my reflection in its bulbous head, which made me look like a blowfish who hadn't shaved, so I blurred it out. You lose again, internet.

Poison Apple

The "Disney Snow White" poison-dripping skull apple continues to become a more and more common Halloween symbol, completely separated from Disneycorp, which I'm surprised hasn't tried to enforce copyright on the image. Like, I'm glad they haven't, and they shouldn't be able to, but you'd think it was juuuuust recognizable enough for them to get anxious. I think I even speculated once that it should be more common, because you have to admit it's a pretty killer image. Wally was really Popping Off with that one, as I think the kids say. Do they say that? 20 years ago we were saying that to mean someone is complaining about something. I could swear we were, anyway. Now I think they use it to mean something is rad and cool.

Witchy Bat Ghost

This is a very tall metal figure of a darling sheet ghost with little black shoes, a pumpkin pail, costume bat wings, a curly witch hat almost as tall as its own body, and for some curious reason, a monocle. I think the monocle is what clinched its inclusion here, though, so it was a good call! It's not broken glasses or anything, I've seen several of these and can confirm that they all have the one monocle.

Macarachnid

Speaking of that special intersection between sweet confections and arachnoidial entities, this absolutely precious decorative plush has a macaron for a body, a tiny little smile, big white cartoon eyes and eight long, black, bendable spider legs, as well as a more normal looking tiny black spider on its head for good measure! So is this one of our Sugar Fiends, or is it an unauthorized Bugsnax OC? If it's anything like several actual spiders, the little one is actually probably a male of the same species as the big one. This is very close to the size disparity between male and female Golden Silk Orb Weavers, for instance, and the females do indeed tolerate the males hanging out with them indefinitely!

...An end to an ancient conflict...? Or...

As everyone knows, Cephalopods and Mummies strictly do not get along. They are, as mummies are happy to explain at length, almost polar opposites in every single possible way. So what is this small, pink octopus doing on the head of this ice-cream-loving mummy? Both are smiling! Both APPEAR to want to be here! Are they forbidden lovers!? Forbidden friends?? Forbidden friends with forbidden benefits??????? Maybe they just don't even know about the schism between their respective worlds. Maybe they have lived all their lives in blissful innocence of the rift that has separated octopus from mummy for so many trillions of eons.

Life Size Plush Frankenbride

There are also life size skeletons, regular frankensteins and vampires in this style, but the Bride of Frankenstein is such a rarer choice of giant-size hanging figure, I felt like she was honestly the only really remarkable one of the bunch. I like her spiral striped arms, and I feel like a bride with bolts is another rarity. Universal Studios has decided to start copyrighting male Frankazoids with both the bolts and the flat head, so you don't see them as often in generic Halloween stuff, but the wifey was never originally portrayed with the bolts, so this is fair game!

Off-Putting Nerd Ghost

This ceramic sheet ghost amuses me for the presence of glasses with no eyes or eye holes of any kind. Is it the ghost of Professor Bunsen?! I also feel kind of charmed by its shallow depression of a mouth and its gritty, sandy surface texture, which together with the eyelessness are all just a little more off-putting than a sheet ghost should normally be. Like...why is he gritty. That's so much worse. Don't touch him! Ew!!!!!!!!!!!!!