I was reading a thread of all your creative invites and figured I'd showcase mine since i got a good reaction from people last year...

I usually just send an Evite out around October 1, but had an idea to mess with my guests this year.
I usually have a theme to my parties and since i am a big fan of the book/film i went with Stephen King's It. Most people i know are disturbed by clowns so i thought it would work great.

I found this pic:



I enlarged it, cut off the tag at the bottom and made it black and white except for the clown. I wanted it to be scary yet very subdued/subtle... giving a feeling of unease. He's just waving not very threatening. On the back i wrote:
he thrusts his fists against the post yet insists he sees the ghosts he thrusts his fists against the posts yet insists he sees the ghosts
(a device to help the main character from the book's stuttering problem)
over and over with no breaks in between, and then:
we all float.
down here.
and the date 10.27.07

I got big white envelopes and addressed my friends in big multicolored crayons like a child wrote them and left no return address. Mailed them out Sept 1.

A week later i found this from the movie:

(an old drawing the kids find revealing that pennywise had been in their town for hundreds of years)
I printed it out and singed the edges with a lighter. I wrote the following on the back:
I am eternal, child.
I am the eater of worlds and of children.
I'm every nightmare you ever had, i'm your worst dreams come true.
I am everything you ever were afraid of...
along with the url address:
Halloween 2007 | Rock's 6th Annual Halloween Ball
the site is still up if you want to check it out.

At this point i started getting the phone calls...
Most people thought it was creepy yet funny and figured out i was the culprit.
HOWEVER... one guy called his brother swearing it was he that sent it. The brother denied it but the victim was not convinced, it apparently started quite an uproar involving the whole family. Another girl filed paperwork with the USPS to track down the origin of the letters and found out what zip the were mailed from because she was so scared. Luckily i mailed them from outside my zip Muah hahaha! And finally one girl called the police because she thought it was a threat on her life or something.

Some people were mad, but got over it. I was very careful not to put anything graphic or threaten anyone with the first invite, but apparently it was creepy enough to make a few people freak out over it.

I hope you found my story interesting. No one was expecting something like this because the invite is usually on the computer. It was a lot of fun to pull off, but i'm afraid in order to top it this year i'm gonna need to send a human head or something haha.

your new friend,
Rock

P.S. I can put some pics from the party up if you guys want...