“I met him, fifteen years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience,
no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face,
and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living
behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil. ”
– Dr. Sam Loomis, Halloween (1978)

Psychic Slashers & Serial Killers

In October of 2013, Palladium Books freelance artist Kent Burles illustrated several modern day slashers, murderers and serial killers with a twist as part of his ongoing Character a Day challenge during the Halloween season.

Well, I loved them all so much that I asked Kent for his permission to write and expand upon their background stories, design characters sheets. In return for his permission, I would let his killers visit the House as special guests, where they can stalk, hunt, chase, capture and/or kill the House Staff and/or Guests to their heart's content.

I'm happy to say that Kent graciously gave me his blessing with the understanding that his beloved killers can only stay at my House during the Halloween season. After all, they cant stay in the House all year... they have other serial matters to tend to.

And now, the Halloween season has returned; and with it, so have Kent's Psychic Slashers & Serial Killers! To add these collectable killers to your killer collection, click on their illustrations to download their character sheets.

Check this page weekly as all of Kent's serial masterpieces will be arriving throughout the month of October to spread their own special version of the Halloween spirit.

In other words... always be on the lookout for more of Kent's killers... your life may depend on it!

The Whacker

He thinks his last name is “Smith”, because his daddy said so, and Daddy was always right. He thinks his first name is “Son” because that’s what his daddy always called him, and Daddy was always right.

Smith grew up and still lives in an old rustic house that's adjacent to a long since closed machine shop located deep in the woods near a small town that’s long since forgotten about it.

Born simple minded and with mental disabilities, Smith was raised by an ex-military, paranoid survivalist who wasn't the most stable minded either. His daddy's paranoia and obsessive nature to protect his property from “Them” drove him to teach Smith how to protect it as well, including how to build and install deadly traps around the property.

While his daddy has been gone for awhile now, Smith still does what he was raised to do; to protect the property with his dying breath, which includes the dozens of acres of dense woods surrounding his home, the old machine shop, and the growing scrap yard of useful scrap and materials. Those few people that have survived trespassing on Smith's property all talk of a killer in the woods the internet has since dubbed The Whacker.

Like many urban legends, Smith's urban legends are getting bigger and more diverse, but the one constant is that “he’s a crazy man who cuts people to pieces with a modified weedwhacker, if his death traps don't get you first!”

You can usually find The Whacker out in the backyard behind the House, whacking down the tall grass, the weeds, the staff, the house guests... he's very thorough like that.
I invited him to come and stay as a special guest and to just relax and enjoy himself, but when you love what you do...