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@nickolosian.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:45 PM

A terrorific 10th to you…! #halloweenadvent #illustration #skyline

A nocturnal skyline in silhouette in front of a misty moon

@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:14 PM

Day Eleven of Halloween Advent 🎃

H P Lovecraft

Inspired 'There's A Shoggoth In My Bath', a self published mixed media art picture book.

I love the weird Dreamlands, so I made a cat doll as I imagined them to be in that realm.

Also made Esotetic Order Of Dagon priest.

#halloweenadvent

Image from 2020 self published mixed media art picture book, 'There's A Shoggoth In My Bath'. To the left is a sculpted 'Shoggoth' to the right a sculpted 'Elder Thing'.

Cosmic cat doll with rainbow fur and sculpted head and arms.

Esotetic Order Of Dagon soft sculpture, on stand holding a staff, facing to left (side view).

Esotetic Order Of Dagon soft sculpture, on stand holding a staff, facing to right.

@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:29 PM

Day Ten of Halloween Advent 🎃

M R James

A Warning To The Curious is my favorite tale, I created a William Ager doll inspired by it.

Also have created Mrs Mothersole (with rabbit form and spider familiar) from The Ash-Tree and the gypsy girl from Lost Hearts.

#halloweenadvent

A skull headed doll is leaning against a tree, finger pointed at the camera, a single eye in the head.

A female doll with rope around neck nestled into a tree trunk, with a spider sculpture sitting below her. A rabbit sculpture is to the left.

A female doll leaning against a tree trunk, both arms raised, exposing rib cage and missing heart.

A female doll, leaning against tree trunk, arms and hands crossed over chest.

@nickolosian.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:02 PM

Happy noxious 9th to you…! #halloweenadvent #illustration #demoneyes

@nickolosian.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:31 PM

An eerie 8th to you…! #halloweenadvent #illustration #skull

@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:00 PM

Day Nine of Halloween Advent 🎃

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
I love so much of his work, but there is so much in this gothic tale that touches on so many themes that resonates.
I made this Miss Havisham in 2025. Her bridal veil is actually made from a real bridal veil.

#halloweenadvent

Miss Havisham doll sits on a doll couch, thst sits on a square of faux greenery, that sits on a yellow chair.
She is in a white bridal gown, with a bridal veil on her grey/white yarn hair.
There is faux greenery draped around the chair.

@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 7:45 PM

Day Eight of Halloween Advent 🎃

Susan Hill
Especially The Woman In Black.
I would love to see the stage play some day, loved the 1989 movie, which this doll's design is based on - that face is tragic and terrifying.
British supernatural at its most tragic and chilling.

#halloweenadvent

A doll version of The Woman In Black, wearing black hat and dress sits on a doll couch with a copy of 'The Woman In Black A Ghost Story Susan Hill' to the left. The couch sits on a square of faux greenery on a yellow chair.

@nickolosian.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 7:30 PM

A spectacular spectral 7th to you…! #halloweenadvent #illustration #cauldron

A cauldron over flames. Spirits float from the rising smoke.

@nickolosian.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 7:34 PM

Mwa ha ha!! Happy spooky 6th…! #halloweenadvent #illustration #boneman

A strange boneman carrying a candle stares at us through an antique window.

@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 6:11 PM

Day Seven of Halloween Advent 🎃

Mario Bava

I am currently working on a doll recreation of Princess Asa Vajda from Black Sunday.

I will be making a doll recreation of the deceased medium from 'The Drop Of Water' from Black Sabbath.

Bava's work has incredible imagery!

#halloweenadvent

Poster for Black Sunday. 'Stare into these eyes discover deep within them the unspeakable terrifying secret of Black Sunday ...it will paralyze you with fright!'. Image of a woman's scary face with hair floating to the right. Beneath flames and a barren landscape where a woman is being tied to a post by two masked men. A open coffin is to the left, a masked body inside.

A poster for 'Black Sabbath', image of dark hands reaching up towards the faces of three women.

@nickolosian.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:58 PM

Better late than never… Happy fun and frightful 5th…! #halloweenadvent #illustration #graveyard

A graveyard overshadowed by gnarly trees. A candle burns at a tombstone in front of which an arm is reaching out of the ground.

@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 6:32 PM

Day Six of Halloween Advent 🎃
Dario Argento
Deep Red is my absolute fave, it has a creepy doll so of course! The two leads are super quirky.
When it came to making a Carmilla doll, I knew she had to be part Barbara Steele and part giallo. Hence the gown design in a crimson red ❤️

#halloweenadvent

Carmilla doll in red and black gown sits on a doll couch with a copy of the Sheridan Le Fanu novel 'Carmilla' behind her. The doll couch sits on a yellow chair.

Poster for Dario Argento's film 'Deep Red'. Image of a woman emerging from the broken head of a doll lying down in red blood.

@nickolosian.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 5:18 PM

Hope you’re having a most fun fearsome 4th…! #halloweenadvent #illustration #darkhouse

A suburban house with a pumpkin on the doorstep and a spook decoration and the message Happy Halloween in the window

@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 8:47 PM

Day Four of Halloween Advent 🎃

Damian McCarthy

I love the characters, settings, spookiness and drama of all three films - a unique and yet somewhat old fashioned feel to each. Can't wait to see what McCarthy does next!

Have made three dolls and a brooch inspired by the movies.

#halloweenadvent

Photo of a bunny doll with a drum sitting on a doll couch with a bluray copy of film, 'Caveat' sitting on the couch to the right. The couch is on a square of faux greenery.

Bluray copy of film 'Oddity' (A Shudder original, gwilym lee, carolyn bracken, tadhg murphy, Every Murder Lives On, one of the scariest movies of the year, dread central MA15+ strong horror themes, shudder) sitting on a doll couch. In front is a small sculpted brooch of a faux eye.

On a doll couch sits a doll of a woman in a rabbit costume with a waistcoat, beside her a bluray copy of film Hokum, an image of a man holding a lantern with lines and circles around him. The couch is on a square of faux greenery.

A witch doll stands on a square of faux greenery beside a tree branch. Hanging from the branch is a sculpted heart keychain and a heartshaped key.

@nickolosian.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 11:02 AM

A thrilling 3rd to you. (Not sure how long I can make the alliterations last!) #halloweenadvent #illustration #blackcat

A black cat sits in the glow of a street lantern on top of a brick wall poking out from a bush under the hang of some skeletal branches.

@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:33 PM

Day Three of Halloween Advent 🎃
Osgood Perkins
Love his mix of drama, dark humor, mystery horror, especially in his 'santanic' universe he is building with Blackcoat's Daughter and Longlegs. My fave four pictured here.

#halloweenadvent

Poster for 'The Blackcoat's Daughter' 'Abandoned as a child. Raised by the dark'. 'Emma Roberts' 'Kiernan Shipka'. Image of two faces, one looking to left, one to right, with a multi storied building inbetween them.

Poster for 'I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House'. Image of two women, the one of the right crossing over into the one on the left.

Poster for 'Longlegs' 'The best horror movie of the year Inverse' 'Maika Monroe' 'Nicolas Cage' 'Written and directed by Osgood Perkin' 'Rated R for bloody violence, disturbing images and some language' 'Neon'. Image of a woman wearing a habit and a dark fluid is running down her face.

Poster for 'Neon Presents The Monkey'. Image of a drumming monkey toy.

@nickolosian.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:32 PM

Happy spooky 2nd…! #halloweenadvent #illustration #scarecrow

@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 6:27 PM

Day Two of Halloween Advent 🎃

Edward Gorey
I have loved Gorey's art style and dark humor for many years. In 2021 I got 'A Dull Afternoon' as a tattoo on my right arm!
My first picture book 'Mulberry Manor' (published in 2020) was heavily inspired by his satire.

#edwardgorey #halloweenadvent

Book cover for 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey'. Illustration of a skeleton figure holding an umbrella over a large group of small children.

Felt plush lying on a floral table cloth. Plush is a recreation of The Gashlycrumb Tinies skeleton figure, with a small girl in yellow on where he legs would be.

Standing on a doll couch, upon faux greenery is a doll recreation of Edward Gorey's illustration of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

A framed print on a wall of Edward Gorey's 'A Dull Afternoon'. It depicts three women in long white dresses in a garden tossing a skull.

@nickolosian.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:45 PM

Happy 1st of the month...! #halloweenadvent #illustration #pumpkin

A pumpkin sat in a field between two distant hills and a line of autumn trees

@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:27 PM

Day One Halloween Advent 🎃
Shirley Jackson
Tales of Unease is very much inspired by her, especially 'One Afternoon In July'. (Sculpt related to that story).
The mundanity of domestic horror, terrors of society are some of the themes she was a master of in my mind.

#shirleyjackson #halloweenadvent