Nix's first work is one of his largest, six feet tall and three feet wide. "Bone Calling" is an abstract patterns made from bones over a board covered with fabric that he completed in 1997. The bones are mostly cow jaws, dog skulls, deer skulls and bones and "various other bits and pieces." "I was always interested in horror and dark arts and just weird things in general: oddities, freaks of nature. I had expressed interest to a friend of mine who has a farm that I was interested in getting some animal bones. He collected a bunch for me and gave them to me. I took the skulls that I liked and decorated with them."

Pitino and Sypher, Hilton and Abramson, Southern Belles of Louisville sure to scare

Here's how Louisville's Danger Run, a "Halloween-themed road rally" (also referred to as a ghost run), works: The Danger Run is a driving game played in your vehicle, generally in groups of two or more people. You will be given a booklet of rhyming limerick-style clues that will test your logic, perception and reasoning abilities. Each of these clues, when solved correctly, will reveal the next turn (or series of turns) you will make as you attempt to stay on the route we have designed for you. The object of the game is to complete the route with the fewest mistakes. We determine the accuracy to which you are able to do this by the accumulated mileage on your vehicle. Speed and time have no impact on the game.