Tom Nardone, author of the just published “Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends and Scare Your Neighbors” (HP Trade, $13.95), suggests using a bit more “attitude” to bring a pumpkin to life.
“Halloween had started to get too wimpy, so I wanted to turn it back into a scary holiday,” Nardone says.
Here is what the creator of Extreme Pumpkins has to say about his website .
"Carving pumpkins is something I enjoy, yet most of the pumpkin carving websites were not to my tastes. I decided to make a pumpkin carving site that included shocking, funny, and gross pumpkin designs. The concept is about adults having fun during the halloween season."
Based on his popular Web site www.ExtremePumpkins.com, Nardone has created a full-color guide to pumpkin carving that’s truly frightening. Featuring the site’s signature Puking Pumpkin, and spanning everything from Drowning Pumpkin, Crime Scene Pumpkin, and Cannibal Pumpkin to Electrocuted Pumpkin and other designs, this gleefully gory guide is nothing short of a manifesto to take back Halloween from the cheerful, the cutesy, and the parent-sanctioned. For the egg-throwing, toilet tissue-streaming, window-soaping teenager in all of us, finally — a whole new way to celebrate Oct. 31.
Nardone, creator of www.extremepumpkins.com, wrote a book, "Extreme Pumpkins," based on his popular Web site. It features his signature Puking Pumpkin (it's disgorging pulp and seeds) in the 20 designs, which have names such as "My Head Is On Fire" Pumpkin, Electrocuted Pumpkin, Worm-Infested Pumpkin, Roadkill-Eating Pumpkin and Brain Surgery Pumpkin.
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