Indignity Image Roundup: MONSTER
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 193
TRICK OR TREAT!
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.
Thank you for making it to the end of the Indignity Getty Image Roundup! We remain grateful for your continued interest and support.
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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.
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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.
—Mrs. MACHAFFIE.
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