Black and white line drawing design of Jack Skellington's head and body set against a spider web with two bats, shown as a flash design with no body placement.

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Jack Skellington with spider web and bats

Black and grey · Flash

The image shows a bold black line drawing of the fictional character Jack Skellington, with a skull-like head and a striped, angular body, set in front of a large spider web. Two small bats sit in the upper right and lower left areas of the web. The linework is heavy and solid with minimal shading, and the composition is centred with the figure overlapping the web.

Jack skellington Skeleton Spider web Bat Skull Halloween

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Every October the bone-thin gentleman climbed the hill above Mallow Cross, and every October the widow Pruett's spider was waiting for him at the gate with her web already strung between the chimney and the elm. She had been spinning there since the year the church bell cracked, and she held that a web was only as honest as the mornings it caught. 'You are late again, Mr Ossery,' she said, though he had not been late, only slow, because his ribs had gone stiff in the damp.

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He had come to the hill to learn the trick of frightening children, which he had been told was a craft and not a cruelty. He practised on the scarecrows first. They fell over. He practised on the sexton, who laughed so hard he dropped his lantern into the nettles, and on the bats, who took it as an invitation and wheeled down from the belfry in a black ragged cloud to ask whether the lantern was lit for them. Ossery sighed and said he supposed it was.

The trouble came on the last night of the month, when the widow's web snagged his coat and he could not get free. He pulled, and she pulled, and the threads sang like the strings of a badly tuned fiddle. Ossery understood then that the spider had never been guarding the gate. She had been waiting for someone brave enough to ask her how a web is made, and he had asked, so he was obliged to stay for supper.

By the first frost the village had three new lanterns, a scarecrow that wore a bow tie, and a bat-shaped weathervane nobody remembered ordering. Ossery still walks the hill each year. The spider still nets him at the gate. Neither of them has ever once let go first.