This Halloween special spans the month of October with all sorts of extras including today’s Meet the Cast and coloring pages galore!
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Meet the Total Monster Makeover team…
Mummy Dearest Everyone’s favorite undead emcee on Total Monster Makeover, Mummy Dearest hails from Ancient Egypt and has made a name for herself in the entertainment industry over many centuries. Mummy Dearest has appeared on Crypt-o-graphy, Meet the Monsters, Outta Your Limits, The Too Late Show, The Undead Zone, Un-living Color, and more. She knows just how to work the audience and is familiar with all the riggings and trappings of the industry.
Dr. A Cula Dr. A Cula is a class act and a longstanding member of the makeover team on Total Monster Makeover. He’s a favorite among the ladies and is quite the Lothario, spreading the art of seduction like a plague. Dr. A Cula always knows just when to leave you hungry for more.
Ed Wick the Witch The beauteous Ed Wick the Witch is the drag royalty of the Total Monster Makeover team, and you never know which way they’re going to fly. A master of many magicks, Ed Wick made the transition from black and white to color in 1963 and has never looked back. They’ll have you under their spell in no time.
Frank N. Stein Frank N. Stein is Total Monster Makeover’s mad scientist hell bent on raising the dead. His artistic genius is known far and wide and he has been integral to the popular zombie makeover movement. Frank N. Stein is truly the brains behind the undead craze.
Swamp Thing Swamp Thing is the newest member of the Total Monster Makeover team and joined the show after meeting emcee Mummy Dearest on Crypt-o-graphy on The Travail Channel. Swamp Thing always has the environment in mind and is all about sustainable style.
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The Headless Horseman The Headless Horseman is looking for ways to get a-head and is a crackerjack of the hot couture fashion scene. Also renowned as a jump scare sous-chef, The Headless Horseman has appeared on Iron Stomach on The Freaky Foodie Channel. You never know just what to expect when he is around.
The Wolf Man Everyone’s favorite lycanthrope, The Wolf Man brings the feral side to Total Monster Makeover. A trendsetter whose hair is perpetually perfect, you can catch him sipping a piña colada at Trader Vic’s when he’s not on the show. Everyone looks forward to going wild with The Wolf Man.
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Yeah yeah, the insects tend to get ALL the attention here on Nightmarish Nature. But honestly, this one takes the beefcake. It’s the New World Screwworm Fly, and it’s as terrifying as the name suggests. And they aren’t limited to the Americas, there is an Old World version as well, as they can be found pretty much anywhere tropical or seasonably suited.
Revolting Little Buggers
The Screwworm Fly is a parasitic fly larvae that burrows into its host to feed, named because it seems to screw deeper and deeper into the flesh over time. This process is called myiasis and do NOT look it up online, you WILL regret it. They blur those images out for very valid reasons, trust me (and not because of pornographic content). And these maggots will continue to burrow en masse, rather than staying put as a botfly larvae would.
Do Not Do an Image Search on Screwworm Myiasis, Like Seriously – You Will NEVER Unsee That
The female Screwworm fly lays her eggs on an open wound or orifice of her chosen host… And not just one egg or a couple of eggs, no – hundreds, even thousands of them. Let’s let that sink in a bit, shall we? Or screw in as it were. Although any warm-blooded animal is a prime target, cattle are a fly favorite, costing millions of head of cattle to this sick and disgusting horror annually. And if beef isn’t on the menu, Fido or even yourself might be.
The Great American Worm Wall
In fact, this particular feature here on Nightmarish Nature is so terrifying that the United States has made agreements with all of Central America, even including countries that do not generally share its interests, in order to create a “Great American Worm Wall” to prevent them from spreading back into the United States. I’m not going to go into all of the creepy and juicy details of this bizarre science fiction freak fact, you’ll just have to watch it here on Half As Interesting’s YouTube channel.
Essentially, the Worm Wall is a complicated byproduct of scientists studying radioactivity on the flies’ maturity as well as the flies’ sexual lives and using this information against them to nearly eradicate the species and banish it from much of its former range. So, Peter Parker, if you thought everyone was messing with your love life before, be glad you weren’t bitten by a radioactive Screwworm.
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You’ve almost made it to the end of the finger spiders here at Haunted MTL! Because I made A LOT of unfulfilled requests for a spider out of fingers, I will continue this snarky little AI art series with NightCafe and Canva through the month of September… In case you missed out, here are the other parts of this series:
Images: Overall design aesthetic of fashion / design advertising spread in muted tones with four AI art rendered images of spiders, built spiders, and spiders on hands, with any given number of legs on spiders and fingers on hands as you’d expect from AI interfacing at this time. Prompts used from top left to lower right include: hand that is a spider; spider legs as fingers; fingers becoming spider; spider all fingers.
Text reads: Creepy Crawlies Finger Spiders Keep Trying! Yeah, I’m sure you don’t remember being bitten. Because of the ways they warp time and space, and the natural chemical reactions involved, the AI art generated finger spiders’ bite isn’t typically felt. They are still attached to you, feeding… You have to get them off… Keep trying!
Images: Overall design aesthetic of fashion / design advertising spread in muted tones with four AI art rendered images of spiders, built spiders, and spiders on hands, with any given number of legs on spiders and fingers on hands as you’d expect from AI interfacing at this time. Prompts used from top left to lower right include: spider leg fingers; spider made out of hand fingers; hand spider picking banjo; fingers as spider playing banjo.
Text reads: Creepy Crawlies Finger Spiders That’s All Folks! Well, I guess that’s that then. It’s been nice knowing you. Enjoy your new form. Nothing left for it but to play the banjo…
We just can’t get enough of spiders here on Nightmarish Nature… so here are some more creepy spider facts for you to consider, outside of the giants, eating and mating habits, and wasp predation as previously mentioned in this series. Plus the finger spiders have taken over the whole of the month of September, so strap in because they’re here too – no goofy drawings this month just more terror unleashed in the form of AI art, courtesy of NightCafe.
Spiders Are Baby Mama Machines!
Spiders can lay hundreds and thousands of eggs in their egg sacs at a time. And when they hatch, all those tiny baby spiders can balloon, flying to new homes on airborne strands of silk as if raining from the sky… So if you suffer from trypophobia and are weirded out by large quantities of clustered small and tiny objects (especially when they are alive and moving) you may want to steer clear of these little bug bombs.
Spiders Are Athletic Archdukes!
Jumping spiders can leap as far as 40 times their body length. And wolf spiders can run up to 2 feet per second. In movement, spiders have four feet on the ground and four in the air at all times. And they have six knees on each leg for a total of 48 knees – that’s a lot of potential kneecapping, I’d try to take them down a different way if I were you…
Other Interesting Factoids
Spiders are on every continent except Antarctica and there are over 40,000 identified species of them. All spiders produce silk for all that they don’t all make webs, since some prefer to live on the move or ambush from hidey holes. There is a known species of herbivorous spider, the Bagheera Kiplingi, but most are carnivorous or omnivorous. And the longest lived spiders can survive for 40+ years.
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