From the beginning the Skull Club was made for scary fun. Two brothers and their friends, with an average age of 6, came up with a club that celebrated the frightening. Isn’t it a strange thing that many people enjoy being frightened as long as it is under controlled conditions: horror stories, spooky movies and TV, creepy sounds and video games. Some artifacts created for the club remained in the possession of one of the members throughout his life. Green Skull, that is myself, owned the human plastic skull model named Skully, that is the Skull Club original mascot, that sat on the Secret Book. Imagine a skull seated on a scary old book looking out at you. People were curious about it. Throughout my life, many close friends that came along were initiated into the club because of the existence of those artifacts. Today the club continues and I regard the Skull Club as an ongoing series of conceptual-performance works of art and/or experimental theater. Members use it as an excuse to party. The club still operates to create scary fun.
I created our Skull Club sometime after I turned 7 years old, if my mother's memory served. I recall that I felt great validation about the club when I saw the character No. 48 sing our Skull Club theme song Dry Bones on the climactic last episode of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner. The episode Fall Out ran on CBS on the Saturday evening of September 21, 1968.
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The Secret Book of the Skull Club, Volume 1 is a collection of early drawings, journals, and lore from the Skull Club’s formative years. Created in childhood and preserved as an art-object, the book captures the strange sincerity of youthful imagination colliding with horror imagery, secrecy, and ritual play.
This edition documents the pre-revision era of the Skull Club and will be withdrawn from distribution on Halloween 2026.
Skull Club Theme (Dry Bones Wet Bones) (released 10/31/2008)
You can hear Skull Club Theme (Dry Bones Wet Bones) at Spotify or Apple Music. This version represents the pre-revision era of the Skull Club and will be withdrawn from distribution by Halloween 2026.
The Secret Book of the Skull Club (prior to 9/21/1968)
I updated, in a minor way, this downloadable version of the original secret book for those who want to join the club today. Feel free to initiate your own souls into the Skull Club as you will find everything you need within the pages of this volume, including thirteen empty secret name slots waiting for your members’ entries.