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She has risen from the crypt and brought a gaggle of gruesome buddies with her! She is the Bride of Macabre, the sequel to Ged’s popular 2002 Halloween set, Macabre. This time around your desktop will play host to a frightening cast of characters including Jason Voorhees, Samara from The Ring, H.R. Geiger’s Alien, Nosferatu and many others!

Do you dare to download the terror that is the Bride of Macabre? Can you keep them on your desktop long enough to even look at them without getting chills? There is only one way to find out. Crawl over and grab this set of freeware icons for your Mac, PC or as a spooky, searchable Pixadex iContainer today. These icons also contain 256×256 resources for extra creepy-ness on next generation operating systems. You’ve been warned, there is no turning back!

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Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is an ancient Mexican celebration that was started by the Aztecs over 3,000 years ago. Although the Spaniards would try and eradicate the rituals, they only partially subdued it. Over the centuries, this festive holiday of bright colors, macabre imagery and specially prepared foods has honored the dead and symbolized death and rebirth to peoples in Mexico and parts of the United States. It is celebrated from October 31st through November 2nd and as such has become greatly associated with Halloween.

Artist David Lanham has drawn inspiration from Día de los Muertos to create his latest freeware icon set for your desktop. This brightly colored collection of skulls, hard drives, folders and more are a perfect kick start to our month long celebration of all things spooky. Día de los Muertos is available today for your Mac, PC or as a handy Pixadex iContainer. Enjoy!

“Good morning, Mr. Phelps.” It’s one of the most recognized lines of dialogue in TV history – the opening phrase of each weekly episode of Mission: Impossible. This much-loved television series featured the adventures of the “Impossible Missions Force”, a select group of covert agents using every trick in the book to prove the show’s title wrong! It ran from 1966 to 1973, spawning a revival series in the 80’s and three feature films to date! It’s an enduring favorite, and proof that television fare can be intelligent as well as exciting. Resident artist Dave Brasgalla, like many others, watched and loved the show growing up, and now he’s created an Aqua-style icon tribute to Bruce Geller’s innovative creation!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to download these ultra-cool desktop icons – and once you’ve selected your team, send them to Dave’s personal site, Pixelhuset, to retrieve the matching desktop. As always, should you or any member of your I.M. force be caught or IP-logged, Dave will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

Update: In what might be a strange cosmic coincidence, the first season of the original Mission: Impossible! television show will be released December 5th on DVD, and is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com. Go get it!

Artist Kate England continues her exploration of Upper and Lower Egypt with this week’s freeware release – Hieroglyphica Volume 2. Volume 1 proved to be very popular and Kate thought the time was right to expand on the original set of glyphs to include some of the better known symbols including the Egyptian Ankh and the Eye of Horus.

These “Divine Words,” as the Egyptians themselves called them, inspired nearly every alphabet ever used, including the Roman alphabet. It is only fitting that we offer up more of history’s original “icons” for your desktop pleasure. Head over and grab them for your Mac, PC or as a searchable Pixadex iContainer today. Don’t forget to visit Marmalade Moon to grab the accompanying sandstone desktop picture to make your desktop theme complete.