GROSS-OLOGY

Ghoulish Food For Halloween Fun

By Elizabeth C.

ONCE A YEAR WE GIVE OURSELVES PERMISSION TO FLIRT WITH DANGER, RELEASE OUR INNER MONSTERS, AND GORGE ON GUM AND CANDY.

Thank God for Halloween!

This year's spookfest falls on Saturday, making costume parties de rigueur along with trick-or-treating and horror movie marathons.

Because we couldn't resist, here's a list of the most ghoulish treats we could dig up on the web. Above is a Monster Meat Loaf, creation of Megan at Not Martha.org. We like her style and want to crash her parties!

Related: Halloween Is Killer

CHEWY GOODNESS

DO YOU GET THE SENSE you're being watched? Perhaps you're just a bit unnerved by the plate of eyeballs situated nearby. This dish is the creation of Britta, Webmistress of the Dark!, who has an entire website of Halloween recipes. We're guessing she's a Scorpio.

EDIBLE UNDEAD

THE PERFECT FOIL TO DISTRACT THE UNDEAD, this Zombie cake will allow human guests to evade hungry flesheaters. The cake is an oldie but goodie, so to speak, on the web, and is the creation of Barbara Jo at DoItMyself.org. She named it Orville after "the dead guy in Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things." We presume the oven wasn't part of the dish.

HEADS WINS

THESE WHITE CHOCOLATE SKULLS make delicious conversation for partygoers! They come from the kitchen of the Kathy Cano-Murillo, aka The Crafty Chica, and have been featured on the awesome blog MentalFloss. Check her --and it -- out.

LIQUID HORROR

WE DOUBT THAT IMBIBING BRAIN PARTS will make your guests any smarter (most likely, on the contrary) but if you're going to the trouble of pretending your a vampire or monster, you may as well go all out and drink body parts. This repulsive fantasy comes via Geekologie. Drink up, and enjoy the horrors.