MIST1019/EMME_DOBLE-UMBREON_FAMILIAR

 Mistigram: #Umbreon is a Dark-type #Pokemon from Generation II and I bet you didn't know that they had a suitable temperament to serve as a wizard's familiar? At least, that is the story emme_doble was telling us with this #pixelart mashup, which we included in the MIST1019 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.

MIST1020/SKONEN_BLADES-ELECTRIC_GUITAR_WITCH

 Mistigram: Legend of Bonefish alumnus skonen_blades isn't just a poet-king gamedev, guesting on podcasts and burlesque stages, he's basically a full-bore Renaissance man. He often undertakes seasonal drawing challenges (currently: MODOK mash-ups), and back in 2020 he visited a series of alt witches on career day flying the wooden tools of their trade across the seasonal skies. We included a few of them, including this badass electric guitar witch (in combat boots!), in the MIST1020 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

MIST1021/HORSENBURGER-REANIMATORB

 Mistigram: this digital illustration of #JeffreyCombs as #HerbertWest in the 1985 "science fiction comedy horror" movie #ReAnimator was drawn, very greenly, by @horsenburger. It was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released five years ago this month. (Hey, Herbert, who's that coming up behind you?)

MIST1022/LITTLEBITSPACE-CARDBACK_REJECT-2

 Mistigram: an unused cardback design for @littlebitspace's collection of #PETSCII #Tarot cards released earlier the same year, this pair of skulls was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection released four years ago this month.

MIST1023/HORSENBURGER-CORALINE_MOTHER1

 Mistigram: the original "other mommy", here's a button-eyed @horsenburger #teletext portrait of #theBeldam from Laika's 2009 #Coraline. This screen was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

MIST1024/PIZZATOE-AMY-QING_ZOMBIE

 Mistigram: Amy of Pizzatoe drew this #ASCIIart #Jiangshi (Chinese Qing dynasty #hoppingvampire) as a guest appearance in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released two years ago.  We hoped to repay the favour with Mist artists making guest appearances in the planned debut Pizzatoe release a year ago, but no one ever figured out how or why that one fell through.  On a still autumn night some say you can still hear them planning their artpack launch!

MIST1025/US-SHOEBODY

 Mistigram: this time last year, Cthulu was holed up in an agriturismo in rural Italy on a vacation, explaining to his family that while he had managed to duck responsibility for packaging the annual Mist Hallowe'en artpack for the first time in eleven years, that didn't relieve him of the duty to populate it with submissions... which is why when things got quiet after the magical Tuscan sunset, he could be found drawing colourful variations of the phrase #ShoebodyBop on his laptop. Sometimes you just have to love your family members unconditionally because no explanation will really suffice to understand what the heck they're up to.

The words look gnarly, but the words themselves aren't. WTF is up here? Cth was very taken by #DrueLanglois' 2022 demonic baptismal animation set to the song of the same name by the Minute Hour. He had roughed out a sketch from it depicting a cultist invokation which LDA and Zeus II later fleshed out taken in a very different direction. (Originally he had planned to depict a series of iconic moments from the music video, punctuated with permutations on its strange name, but Italy rudely interrupted this aspiration with a series of historical hilltop distractions.)

Maybe we'll see more Shoebody moments later this month, but this introductory portion was included in the MIST1025 artpack collection released a year ago.