Today’s foray into the unknown might change your life.

You will see things that only you will understand, and only you will be able to decipher.

I’m not going to promise a transformative experience, but I do want to encourage you to tap into your animal nature and feel Gothtober Day 27. I can’t tell you what you’ll find, perhaps the answers to a few of the unsolved corners of your mind? Take a look, peer into the depths, gaze into the universal meow.

Today’s piece was created by Canadian artist and filmmaker, Amy Lockhart!

What a weekend!

Gothtober DAY 25 Creepy N. Shady, Esq. offers very important facts and figures to members of the population that possess otherworldly traits! Know your rights, fight the good fight, supernaturals unite!

And DAY 26 by Bill Wolkoff offers a challenging Gothtober Times Crossword Puzzle, you can download it, print it out, and take it with you wherever you go! Don’t know where to do your crossword puzzle? Bill has enclosed a handy tour showing you some good spots for working out the solutions. Also… there’s something special about the “blood drive” page, rumor has it, if you click around, there’s a secret button you can press. What will you find? There’s only one way to find out…

The Three Rotten Cat Heads made today’s excellent adventure for Gothtober DAY 24! They are:

Dave Pitters of HungryEyeball

Tripper Dungan of NumberStar

Martin Ontiveros of MartinHead

Apparently, these three Gothtober artists had to film this piece in TWO parks, because they almost got in trouble with the law at the first park for being generally weird! We’re so proud of you, Rotten Cat Heads! Don’t EVER stop being rotten! The Three Rotten Cat Heads are all in Portland, OR. Send them notes on their blogs with lots of meows in them, they will understand.

It’s been an EVERY DAY TRICK-OR-TREAT on the Gothtober Calendar!

DAY 16 is a spooky sound download from Dark Adams, download it, and then play it through your subwoofers and scare people half to death with it’s creepy audio craziness!

DAY 17 Oonstein gives you a recipe you can download for GIANT Pumpkin Muffin-Top Cookies — YUM!!!

DAY 18 takes us into a contemplative and informative vignette about fear, it involves driving, beware…

DAY 19 features our YOUNGEST independent Gothtober artist, amazing renderings of monsters making out! Really!

DAY 20 is a little ditty by none other than world-famous animator, Christine Panushka! If you’d like to see something really cool on October 26th at 8:30pm at the RedCat in Los Angeles, check out Mosca and the Meaning of Life by Christine Panushka and Alberto Araiza. See this groundbreaking multimedia piece in which animated characters leap off the screen and join up with live performance!

DAY 21 is a heartrending story of rejection and longing, told through the eyes of a lonely amphibian. Over 25 individual charcoal drawings for this piece were lovingly crafted by Stephanie Abler, who in addition to her own blog and portfolio website, has products for purchase at her store, Elsie Tervo.

DAY 22 might make you feel a little queasy, but we’re hoping it also makes you feel a little Crafty! Christy Chambers has created a fantastic project for YOU! It’s a diagram on how to crochet your very own disembodied head! Eeeeeeee!!!!

Which brings us to TODAY, DAY 23! Jenny Walsh has been DAY 23 for the last 6 years on Gothtober, and as usual, she has brewed something up the likes of which you’ll thrill to look at, as you eat a jar of pickles, boil some centipedes and wait for the phone to ring…

I’m sure you thought we forgot about things here in gothtoberland, but we have been busy getting everything ready for your viewing pleasure. That and we had a fantastic CrafttNight at AKBAR in Los Angeles putting together the fantastic cars that Lush Newton (day 10) designed.

But here you go. Have you ever lost your shoes? Really lost them? Especially the boots that you really loved and are just dying to wear to go out dancing tonight? Well, XKiller did, and she made a great flash animation about it. You can see that on day 14.

Day 15 features Miss Lori, who returns to gothtober with a puppet operetta about a besotted mother and her little girl. There are lessons to be learned about how to dress your child –  don’t you ignore them!

Day 16’s Dark Adams is also a gothtober veteran, and he gives us a peek into the Weird, Wild Old West (or at least what it may have sounded like.) Follow the instructions and download his mp3 file for your listening pleasure.

YES! Yes it will! Especially if you consult Furious Georgette, who will ruin it one of FOUR ways! Visit DAY 13 on the Gothtober Countdown Calendar, and take this harrowing “Choose Your Own Adventure” excursion that is sure to leave you filled with a very special cartoon sense of dread!

Contrary to how close you might want to get after viewing her piece, you should consider investigating Furious Georgette’s fabulous funny farces further at NerdeGade.com

Happy Lucky DAY 13 Everybody!

No doubt you had lots to do this weekend, lots of chores, hanging out with friends, reading things, cleaning things, calling relatives, I mean you know, whatever you’ve got going on during the weekend, you were doing it, right? Who has time for the COMPUTER on the weekend?!? Ah, and now it’s Monday, and maybe you’re grumpy because some people get the day off, but you don’t… and it’s a fine time for a little diversion. That’s what Gothtober IS FOR! Hooray! Let’s play catch-up on the days you might have missed, and then you can brag about how awesomely cultured you are and create envy and intrigue in the workplace.

Lush Newton (famous artist in beautiful Humboldt, CA.) made for us some beautiful Haunted Paper Hot Rods, you just download them, print them, color and cut and you’re ready to race! We’re going to make a bunch of these babies at CraftNight on the 14th this week, we’ll post pictures of what is made, Haunted Auto Derby here we come!

Woodrow & Jimmy (DAY 11) Take us down memory lane and revisit a classic film, zombie style! If arm-munching makes you a little queazy, make sure you view this one before lunch.

Monday starts us off with Hel’s (DAY 12) touching and endearing story of two crocheted birds having a lovely evening out on the town. There’s no arm-eating in this one, as far as I can remember, it’s actually kind of sweet.

1.) Greeblies like corn nuts.

2.) Greeblies talk about you when you are not in the room, or even in the house.

3.) Greeblies drink all your coffee.

4.) Greeblies come in many different colors, and often brandish lots of tiny little teeth and waggly little arms.

5.) “We Are the Greeblies” is today’s film for Gothtober DAY 9!!! It was made in beautiful Pasadena, CA. You can see Greeblies doing all kinds of things in this music video, and you can also learn about these elusive creatures by studying the artistic renderings of them done by experts in the field! Don’t miss it! Greeblies! Eeeeek!

Brudders is the spirited daily antics of two house cats, Sgt. Marshmallow and Ratatoullie, and their little sister, who is human. Today they all have a little 3-D adventure at the Drive-In! If you’d like to get better acquainted with these characters, here is where you can view all the comic strips from the start! And here’s where you can see Little Green Dog’s original Gothtober film from 2005 (DAY 28) with REAL cats building a frankenkitty, You can also view more great stuff at their homesite! Yay Little Green Dog!

Every so often, Gothtober is lucky to have some contributors who really throw down and take it all off. We’re talking about the Mercurial Sisters and their blatant habitual propensity for recording themes embracing the female form. This year, they have decided to take DAY 7 on the calendar and give to you the SEVEN SINS. What’s awesome is that you don’t even have to venture outside the house to look at this sensational and dazzling rendition of the Capital Vices, or Cardinal Sins, as observed both historically and by contemporary society. You can even sin while looking at your monitor!

Part of defining goodness is determining what goodness is NOT. The Mercurial Sisters know all too well that sin is a fascinating topic, sin is lawlessness, perverse inclination, clouded conscience, a pinching of the soul and the glorious celebrated root of free will. If what we know as the divine is essentially perfect and good, then all else in existence is merely a deficiency or limitation, a distraction from perfection. By and large, this is how we humans and our little evocative quirks make soap operas waaaay more interesting.

Take a look at today’s SEVEN DEADLY SINS, and tell yourself you aren’t tempted or aroused or at least intrigued by a little of what you see. Revel for a moment in the sin you’re best at, which one preoccupies you the most? Enjoy DAY 7, dear viewer, and if you’re going to embrace your imperfections and be tempted… as Plato and Socrates used to say “Know thyself.” Then go have yourself a blast!