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Series soothsayer or Rockies remains? Denver artist Jerry Vigil made this player, ready to start in the Next World Series, in honor of the Day of the Dead and the Colorado Rockies’ prowess in the World Series games played on this mortal coil. Love the concept? Get Vigil’s Team Muertos T-shirt: . They’re not Rockies-themed, but the purple-and-black hues are right on topic.
Tooth or dare?
Grave of Fodor Glava, a.k.a. The Vampire Grave, Lafayette Cemetery, 111 Baseline Road, Lafayette
A grave wrong, or a biting reminder? Rumors haunt the grave of Transylvania native Fodor Glava, whose unkempt grave features a gnarly tree rooted in the spot where locals believe Glava’s heart rests. Glava’s December 1918 obituary says he died in the influenza epidemic that also claimed his afterlife partner, John Trandifir, who is buried in the same grave (but not rumored to be a vampire), a once-common practice.
Housecreeping
Shriek Manor, East 10th Avenue and Emerson Street, Denver; .
Archtectural digested Since 1999, this Capitol Hill family seasonally decorates their yard with special-effects lighting and sound, improbable tombstones, masterfully carved pumpkins and gory embellishments dripping from architectural columns to birdbaths. Credit the imagination of Heather Tudhope, Jordan Lord-Sherman and Rory Sherman for this annual interpretation of the nightmare before Christmas.
