The Dirt on Zombies announces a selection of all things zombie: toys, figures, sculpture and decor for the home and yard. Check out the page link to my zombie store and the Dirt on Zombie Stuff Shopping Guide. Current categories include yard art and female zombies.
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| Zombie Garden Sculpture from Design Toscano. |
I look for quirky, realistic depictions, horror-interest and fun gift-quality merchandise from reputable vendors. There are a few humorous items to add to the fun, and I've given female zombies their own category. Undead toys, figures, sculpture and zombie art tend to feature male zombies. The relatively rare female walking dead range from the utterly creepy to the strangely sexy.
The phenomenon of zombie pin-ups deserves special attention. This type of art is fascinating, twisted, and often amazingly well-done. It's sort of mind-boggling and toothsome at the same time.
Zombie brides may get their own category soon.
My favorite finds: The detailed, wonderfully realistic yard art zombie that you can put in your garden. He's digging his way out of his grave.
Gnombie: These zombie garden gnomes come in two sizes. Based on their bloody mouths, these guys have been eating brains recently. No, you won't get any points with real zombies for putting a few of these in your garden. The zombies are coming for your brains, they don't give a rat's ass about anything else.
On the happy side, the big Gnombie weighs in at 22 pounds and could come in handy for bashing in a hungry corpse's skull during the apocalypse. That's what we call a selling point. If you've been here before, you have a clue which side I'm on.
One of the best finds in the female zombie category:
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| Crawling Zombie Woman by Loftus, courtesy of Amazon |
It's clear from her open mouth that she's hungry, and ready to eat some brains. Talk about a killer gift for a zombie fan.
She'll attract attention from a balcony, in a loft, on a ledge or bench in the entry way or suspended from the ceiling on fishing line.
Notice the mussed black hair and the white nightgown. It's pretty much a rule of horror that nightgowns, a bath towel, skimpy robe, clingy T-shirt, crop top, bikini, bra and panties -- or sheen of shower water -- is the required attire. Except for the zombie bride, who always appears in her wedding gown.
Zombies add a new meaning to the term action figure. And anyone who thinks zombies are toys gets what they deserve. Stay tuned for the forthcoming zombie fashion and beauty, zombie books and movies -- and more categories. Possibly even some zombie-themed unmentionables.
