If you read our Q&A with artist Alex Pardee, then you know we're big fans of the innovative, imaginative, and altogether extraordinary artist, and we're thrilled to exclusively announce that the July edition of the Loot Fright crate will feature Pardee's new Oscar & the Lycanthrope "Monster Season" figure as part of the month's "Insides Out" theme, along with a new Get Out T-shirt!
In addition to Oscar & the Lycanthrope, the July Loot Fright crate will include all sorts of horror goodies to unbox, including collectibles from Get Out, Alien, and The Fly, as well as a a Lovecraft Series: Herbert West–Reanimator Screen Printed Poster that's available as a premium add-on item.
Available beginning tonight at 9:00pm PST through July 15th at 9:00pm PST, the July "Insides Out" Fright Crate is listed at $34.99 (in addition to shipping and handling).
We have an exclusive look at the Oscar & the Lycanthrope figure and Get Out T-shirt below, and you can learn more by visiting the official Loot Fright website.
Wondering who exactly are Oscar & the Lycanthrope? Read Pardee's harrowing backstory to his new Monster Season figure:
There’s always been something off about Oscar. The adults in town didn’t really notice, because I guess as an adult you see so much weirdness throughout your life that you eventually learn to look the other way when something seems off. But not us, at least not when we were kids. I was the first to notice it. I was in Oscar’s Meat-Mall with my dad. He was there picking up his weekly lump of pork-shoulder so he could make us his famous tacos for taco-night. Dad got a phone call right when Oscar walked in the back to chop the meat, so he wasn’t paying attention. But I heard it. And I saw it. While hacking up the pork, Oscar first started grunting, then gagging. Then he was talking to himself. I heard it clearly. He said, “Not now, please.” And then gagged some more.
I never told my Dad about that.
A few weeks later, I was riding my bike home after game night at Tommy’s. It was late, but it wasn’t too dark because of the full moon. I always ride past Oscar’s shop on my way home, through the alley behind it, and this time was no different. Except, when I got into the alley, I saw Oscar outside, gagging again. I stopped to ask him if he was ok and he shooed me away frantically. But then I saw his mouth stretch and it looked like it was painful. I tried to help. But then, after some of Oscar’s insides got pushed out of his mouth and plopped on the floor, a creature emerged from Oscar’s throat, and HOWLED. I rode away as quickly as I could. I tried to tell my Dad but he said, “Some people are just eccentric.”
The next morning the newspaper said that two bodies were found with their faces bitten off. I never told anyone else what I saw.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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