Halloween Gravestone Styles
Halloween decorations aren't complete with plenty of gravestones. In conjunction with open graves, blood-spattered zombies and creepy sounds and music, convincing gravestones will help transform your home into a creep fest that will make little kids scream. Does this Spark an idea?
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Gothic
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Gothic gravestones are tall and imposing with a pointed arch at the top. They feature classical eulogies and "R.I.P." in large, ornate letters. You can make some fairly convincing fake gravestones out of wood or Styrofoam, covered with textured paint.
Gory
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Place a headstone at the head of an open grave you've dug on your front lawn. Get some fake body parts and scatter them around so it looks like a wild animal has just dug up the corpse. For a touch of black humor, write "Rest in Pieces" on the tombstone. Cover a friend in fake blood and have him lay half in the coffin for the evening, saying terrifying things when kids show up for candy.
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Funny
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If you prefer humor to terror, create some amusing gravestones and place them around your yard to entertain the neighbors. Put limericks or twisted eulogies on them. Use things along the lines of "Here lies Les Moore. Three shots from a .44. No Les. No Moore." Buy a creepy laugh box from a novelty store and hide it behind a gravestone. Connect it to a remote and make it laugh when children are walking by with their bags of candy.
Spooky
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Making a gravestone spooky absolutely requires fog. Unless you live in the bayou you can't depend on fog on Halloween so you'll have to rent a fog machine and buy some dry ice. Get as much fog going in your yard as possible. Put a stereo speaker in the window and broadcast sounds of wind in dead tree branches, creaking doors and moaning. Install a spooky gravestone several months in advance so you can have unkempt crabgrass growing up around it by the time Halloween arrives.
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