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TRICK OR TREAT!  A view of the Loch Ness MONSTER, near Inverness, Scotland, April 19, 1934. The photograph, one of two pictures known as the 'surgeon's photographs,' was allegedly taken by Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson, though it was later exposed as a hoax by one of the participants, Chris Spurling, who, on his deathbed, revealed that the pictures were staged by himself, Marmaduke and Ian Wetherell, and Wilson. References to a monster in Loch Ness date back to St. Columba's biography in 565 AD. More than 1,000 people claim to have seen 'Nessie' and the area is, consequently, a popular tourist attraction. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) The month of October has arrived at its end at the conclusion of a workweek, which means that everyone can go out and have their costumed fun and transgression on a single day and night, as the Old Gods intended. Tomorrow the calendar turns to a new month, and the pumpkins will be strictly for pumpkin pies—but not until after we have brought you the October installment of Indignity's GETTY IMAGES ROUNDUP. To keep you, the readers, supplied with visually appealing, topically appropriate, and legally licensed images in our newsletters, Indignity maintains a paid subscription to the Getty Images service. Because even the lowest available tier of the Getty plan still offers more photos and illustrations than we generally use, and because we want to make sure all of us get our full money’s worth, at the end of each month we prepare a bonus collection of images to keep using up our annual allotment at the appropriate rate. In honor of all the little and less-little costumed horrors prowling past the stoop, leaving nothing but a couple of sleeves of Whoppers in the candy bowl, we present a visual bestiary on the theme of MONSTER.  Ozzy Osbourne performs on stage at MONSTERs Of Rock, Donington Park , United Kingdom, 17th August 1996. (Photo by Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images)  ANAHEIM - 1989: Bigfoot Fastrax crushes cars during the MONSTER truck rally at Anaheim Stadium in 1989 in Anaheim, California. Photo by: Tim Defrisco/Getty Images  The 76th Annual Academy Awards - Show: Charlize Theron, winner for Best Actress for "MONSTER" (Photo by M. Caulfield/WireImage)  1989: BALTIMORE ORIOLES OUTFIELDER BRADY ANDERSON LEAPS HIGH ALONG THE GREEN MONSTER DURING THE ORIOLES VERSUS BOSTON RED SOX GAME AT FENWAY PARK IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. MANDATORY CREDIT: RICK STEWART/ALLSPORT  American actress Halle Berry accepts the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "MONSTER's Ball", at the 74th Annual Academy Awards, held at the Kodak Theater In Hollywood, California, March 24, 2002. Applauding her (left) is Australian actor Russell Crowe. (Photo By Getty Images)  NEW YORK - 1993: Rave and fashion show on the subway in 1993 in New York City, New York. Pictured L-R: Desi MONSTER (standing), Lahoma Van Zandt (behind pole) and Sushi. (Photo by Catherine McGann/Getty Images)  Portrait of John Daly: 5 Mar 1999 Portrait of John Daly of the USA during the Doral Ryder Open on the Blue MONSTER at Doral Resort & Country Club in Miami, Florida. \ Mandatory Credit: Andrew Redington /Allsport  2003 Sundance Film Festival - "Party MONSTER" - Portraits: Chloe Sevigny, Seth Green, Natasha Lyonne, Wilmer Valderrama, Macaulay Culkin and Dylan McDermott (Photo by J. Vespa/WireImage)  ABSHERON, AZERBAIJAN : 1997, Art Studio of Rasim Babayev, Mardakan Village, Absheron, Azerbaijan A portrait of the late painter, Rasim Babayev(1927-2011), sitting in front of the reverse side of his canvas. As Babayev painted under the Soviet regime, he had to adhere to their mandate that all paintings should mirror real life a style called Socialist Realism. Before the Soviets recognized Primitivism as a respected school of art, Babayev painted his MONSTERs on the back of the canvases to hide them from the Soviet authorities. (Photo by Reza/Getty Images)  Meat Loaf and family during "The MONSTER Squad" Premiere Party at The Hard Rock Cafe in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)  Full-length Cookie MONSTER! Thank you for making it to the end of the Indignity Getty Image Roundup! We remain grateful for your continued interest and support. Enjoy previous installations of Indignity Image Roundup. WEATHER REVIEWS New York City, October 30, 2025★★★★ Rain splatted; wind hissed; rain splatted. Branches heaved. The light, what light there was, was somewhere beyond discouraging and heading toward hopeless. The black asphalt was heavily speckled with leaves, sweetgum scattered in with honeylocust, and more leaves were stuck all over the cars. The rain went on and on and on, pelting and gushing and roaring. The air was gray with flying water and the constant streaks of raindrops passing in front of the neighboring wall looked like a bar code. Enough water had blown into the shelter of the balcony to make a real puddle, with bubbles and spreading rings in it from the new drops coming in. After 5, under the drips and stray drops trailing behind the main body of the storm, a hint of gold appeared in the clouded light. At the foot of the Pool, the rocks above the falls were entirely submerged, their presence marked by only a few faint rimples and eddies in the single smooth sheet of gray water pouring unobstructed over the edge. The Loch below was swollen up against its stony boundaries. Beside the uphill path, a track of naked black dirt, looking as if it had been cut through the leaf litter with a snow shovel, marked where some temporary cataract had found the shortest way to the gutter. Even as the day dimmed overall, the share of gold in the remaining glow kept increasing. Somewhere, still occluded, some full and glorious sunset was underway.  EASY LISTENING DEP'T.HERE IS TODAY'S Indignity Morning Podcast! Here is the Indignity Morning Podcast archive! ADVICE DEP'T.HEY! DO YOU like advice columns? They don't happen unless you send in some letters! Surely you have something you want to justify to yourself, or to the world at large. Now is the perfect time to share it with everyone else through The Sophist, the columnist who is not here to correct you, but to tell you why you're right. Direct your questions to The Sophist, at indignity@indignity.net, and get the answers you want. SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from C.L.C. Tombola Cook Book, by the Ladies of Cornwall and Friends of the Cornwall Lacrosse Club, published in 1909 and available at archive.org for the delectation of all. CHEESE SANDWICHES. Mix one cream cheese with an equal amount of chopped walnuts; add a few grains of cayenne, season with salt, and moisten with cream.
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