Black Swamp Horror & Oddities

08/16/2026

The Green Crow Plants is out at the Toledo Night Market tonight! 🌿🐦‍⬛

If you’re a fellow plant lover, go say hi and check out what they’ve brought along. They’re there until 10:30 tonight!

08/16/2026

The Pale Horse is one of Toledo’s horror darlings, and we love seeing Jessica and the crew get the recognition they deserve! 🖤

Jessica Delgado, the owner of The Pale Horse Bar, joins Small Busin...

08/13/2026

The swamp has a new face.

We’re incredibly excited to finally reveal the new Black Swamp Horror & Oddities logo and branding.

From the beginning, we’ve wanted Black Swamp Horror to feel rooted in the place we call home: dark water, tangled woods, lantern light, strange things just beneath the surface, and the stories that have grown out of the Great Black Swamp.

This artwork captures that feeling better than we could have imagined.

A huge thank you to Brian Lowe aka Doodle's Doodles67, created the original artwork for us. Brian took the ideas we’d been kicking around and turned them into something weird, eerie, beautiful, and unmistakably Black Swamp.

You’ll start seeing the new look roll out across our website, social media, merchandise, signage, and everything we’re building toward March.

Welcome to the Black Swamp.

Black Swamp Horror & Oddities
March 6–7, 2027 • Maumee, Ohio

And seriously, give Brian Lowe some love in the comments. 🖤🏮🌿

08/01/2026

Mortuary Manor BOOkfest is tomorrow. They're at the Victorian building on Lagrange Street, 11am to 5pm, with 20 horror and paranormal authors and a full room of oddities vendors. You can walk through the original funeral chapels, the embalming rooms, and the morgue. Eerie Excursions is running flashlight tours and a ghost hunt there that night too.

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Come to our event here at Mortuary Manor August 1st.....If you're looking to vend please contact me for info, limited tables available. We are have 20 book vendors and 20 oddities/horror vendors. If you think your stuff might work contact my operations manager Cory at 734 301 6494

07/13/2026

Today, the Black Swamp dims its lanterns for Sam Neill.

To most people he'll always be Dr. Alan Grant. Horror knew him for something else: an actor who could make skepticism, grief, obsession, and madness all feel human.

In POSSESSION, his Mark doesn't just watch a marriage collapse. He comes apart with it, wounded and desperate, matching the film's fever-pitch intensity scene for scene.

In IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, he played John Trent, the dry, rational skeptic certain every nightmare had an explanation, right up until reality stopped cooperating. The slide from certainty to cosmic terror never feels like a performance.

In EVENT HORIZON, Dr. William Weir's grief curdles into obsession until he becomes the thing the crew is running from.

In DAYBREAKERS, he brought cold corporate polish to Charles Bromley, the face of a vampire apocalypse run like a business.

Four roles, four kinds of unraveling, and Neill never stood back from any of them. He went in.

Thank you, Sam, for the fear, the madness, and every trip into the places where reality wears thin.

Rest well. The swamp is quieter tonight.

07/13/2026

Time for an update on our logo: what you've seen so far got us moving fast while everything else came together, but we always planned on a local artist making the real one.

An expo built around supporting artists should have art made by one. We'll share the new logo as soon as it's ready.

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07/07/2026

We still have 47 vendor spots open. And we're keeping them that way because we made a call: 10-foot aisles and room to breathe. More rows. Space to move.

You don't sell well when you're packed shoulder-to-shoulder. Neither do your customers. So instead of cramming vendors, we're building something that feels good to walk through.

If you make, sell, or create anything in the horror and oddities space, apply at blackswamphorror.com/apply. Questions? Reach out; we want the process to be smooth.

See you in March.

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04/19/2026

The subscribe and vendor application forms are back up and working.

If you tried to submit through the site recently and hit a wall, that's on us – a bug was blocking submissions. It's fixed. If you were mid-process, head back to blackswamphorror.com/apply and give it another go.

Vendor spots are still open. We're glad you're here.

Submit your vendor application for the Black Swamp Horror & Oddities. March 6–7, 2027 in Maumee, OH.

04/19/2026

Our friends at The Pale Horse are throwing Halfway to Halloween on May 2nd, and you should be there.

Costumes, specialty cocktails, a DJ spinning at 9, kids' trick-or-treat from 12-2, and a costume contest worth dressing for.

About those mystery envelopes… let's just say a few of them might get the winners a head start on March 2027. Look closely.

319 N. Superior. Noon to 2am.

Halfway to Halloween is creeping in… and we’re celebrating like it’s October 🩸🎃

🕸 MAY 2ND
⏰ 12PM – 2AM
🎧 DJ spinning at 9PM

Come dressed to kill… because costumes score you 10% OFF 👀

🍸 Specialty cocktails all night
🕯 Mystery envelopes with surprises inside
🎭 Costume contest (bring your best nightmare fuel)

Got little ghouls?

From 12pm-2pm
👻 Kids in costume get a trick-or-treat bag
This isn’t just a party… it’s a prequel to Halloween itself.

👉 Tag your crew, plan your costumes, and get here early—this one’s going to fill up fast.