Scary Photos for Scary Times

In this scariest of seasons—the final run-up to the interminable train wreck of a US presidential campaign—oh, and also Halloween—horror imagery is everywhere. In honor of these spooky times, I present you with some scary, previously unpublished...

by Bruce LaBruce

October 29, 2012, 6:30pm

In this scariest of seasons—the final run-up to the interminable train wreck of a US presidential campaign—oh, and also Halloween—horror imagery is everywhere. A “monster” of a hurricane that the media continually characterizes as “stalking” the east coast, variously dubbed “Frankenstorm” and “Bride of Frankenstorm,” is making the merely Biblical Hurricane Isaac that disrupted the Republican national convention in Florida a few months ago look like a pussy. And as if the dog and pony show—or elephant and donkey show—that is the presidential election weren’t scary enough, both candidates have been compared to a variety of monsters: Obama as a monster in general, or a zombie, or Hitler; and Romney as a zombie, or Herman Munster (with his running mate, Paul Ryan, in the Eddie Munster role), or, most popularly in the meme-osphere, a creepy robot. The media has also reported that Obama masks have outsold Romney masks for Halloween 60 to 40 percent, which either indicates Obama is more popular, or considered more monstrous. If the latter is true, it’s because he seems to be presiding over a zombie economy and a zombie Congress.

So as the monster storm bears down on Washington as some kind of divine retribution for wasting the precious little time we have before the real upcoming apocalypse that has been penciled in for December 21, 2012, I present you with some scary, previously unpublished imagery that I’ve dug up from my digital photo collection. Happy Halloween.