Here at the Devil’s Demons, I’ve decided to take on the task of educating both myself and readers alike. So let’s start a little vocab study. We can kinda pretend this is something like Mr. Roger, or Sesame Street.

Today’s word is Alliumphobia, or  the fear of garlic. Many of you reading this may possess such a fear, as do many of our favorite characters from the anals of horror. Alliumphonbia can be a crippling disorder, resulting in:

breathlessness, dizziness, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth, feeling sick, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of dying, becoming mad or losing control, a sensation of detachment from reality or a full blown anxiety attack.

As you may have heard, vampires suffer dearly from this phobia. Vampires and garlic do not mix well. As a result, garlic has become a staple in any vampire hunter’s arsenal. If you need some garlic, here are a couple of options:

Garlic Mints

Easy to fool vampires with, garlic mints are a nice choice. Most vampires have bad breath anyways, so they won’t be suspicious when you offer them a breath freshener.

Garlic Beer

Apparently, some crazy people out there have been brewing garlic beer. This seems ridiculous, but I presume you could get a vampire drunk enough and start slipping him pints of garlic beer after a dozen buds have already been knocked back.

Garlic and Shots

Take a vampire to London, and then take them to Garlic and Shots. They’ll think you’re being cute, and you can probably lie and say that it’s just “garlic flavoring” and not real garlic. Say it’s a place where vampires go to mock humans. They’ll think it’s very cute and kitschy and will play along. I’ve been there several times, many while living there, and the potency of the shots promises to knock even the most durable vampire down.

I always wanted a cat named “Dethkat”. Homage to my obsession with Metalocalypse. Might just need to steal this cat:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/stage_nm/us_books_cat

Thanks to Wolf for the link.

OK. So a friend of mine (thanks Novelli) sent me this link last week, and I’m fairly upset that I have yet to discover this before.

Here at the DevilsDemons, we like several things. Some of which include:

• Booze
• Gore
• Boobs

Hence, you can feel my dismay upon just now discovering Zombie Pinups …

The site started with a set of pinups (hence the name) of several classic characters, such as the Queens of Hearts and the Schoolgirl. Now it’s a collection of photos from various zombie “beauty competitions”, which is quite amusing simply for the fact that such gathering take place and get enough support to keep happening.

This site is for you if you already have some disturbing zombie/horror porn fetish and need to take a step back for a while.

I’m scared

I doubt these are real, but good lord, if they were I’d buy a case.

Baarbarian

[Via bookofjoe]

This article is clearly a few months old, but holy shit look at those things!  I don’t have that many friends who love Dexter, so there’s really no reason for me to make these as there will be no one to celebrate  with, but make them I will.

Dexter Blood Slide Suckers [via Forkable Blog]

I don’t know about you, but I am so thankful that the holiday season is over. While some of my posts make you think otherwise, the only real reasons I love Christmas and such so much are:

• Time off of work
• An excuse to go on  a 2 week bender
• Free shit because people think I’m awesome

All great things, but they really have nothing to do with the spirit of Christmas. They just boil down to pure raw human needs and wants.

Regardless, Christmas really gets in the way of things being truly evil. I watch horror movies at Christmas time sure, but it never has the same feel. Everyone laughs afterwards. Or has a nice cup of hot tea while watching. Or cuddles up with blankets together to enjoy the “fright”. Not at all pure evil.

While we wait for Halloween to come around once more, I stand here today proud that Christmas is out of my mind, and I can now focus on being more selfish and self-serving, and leave the joy and need to help and love others in the past. Welcome to 2010.

Never have I wanted the power so badly as now.  Hit the link for more Masters of the Universe based art than you can shake a stick at.

http://ihavethepowerart.blogspot.com/

Do you live in or near New Jersey? Do you have no plans for the weekend of March 19th? Good, then there’s no reason you should miss this.  To be fair, I don’t even know what this is, but it appears to be a horror movie festival/convention.  I haven’t even read through the whole site yet, so just go with it.  It does, however, have a great guest list including George Romero, Tom Savini, and “the asshole” from Day of the Dead, Joe Pilato.

http://www.saturdaynightmares.com/