ORDER OF THE THINNED VEIL

“It was said that the veil between this world and the next was at its thinnest on the night of All Hallows Eve.”

Welcome to the Order of the Thinned Veil!

  We are a society of like-minded individuals who choose to live our lives steeped in the legends, lore and customs of Halloween. What does that mean? Well, for us Halloween is anything but just a day in October, it is a lifestyle and a lens by which we view the world around us.

The Order of the Thinned Veil is an optioned style of membership for the year. There are two options for membership and each has it’s own set of perks such as exclusive illustrations and sculptures, certificates and a membership pin!

Members will occasionally have access to exclusive items available ONLY to current Order of the Thinned Veil members.

Options for membership are as follows and are a ONE TIME FEE. This is NOT a recurring monthly subscription. Once you sign up, you’re a member for the year of 2026!

Just to clarify a few points:

  • The Order of the Thinned Veil is meant to be a year long Halloween experience. If you sign up at the TREAT level for example, you’ll be receiving multiple shipments throughout the year, not everything all at once. Items will ship at different times throughout the year with some arriving AFTER Halloween! This was always the original conception and may not have been clear in previous years. Halloween should be celebrated all year long!

  • Memberships are for the calendar year of 2026. Whether you sign up today or next month, all memberships expire on December 31st.

  • You can upgrade your membership level at any time! Just shoot us an email at theorderofthethinnedveil@gmail.com and we’ll take care of it.

Welcome to Order of the Thinned Veil: Year Ten

Ten years of the Order of the Thinned Veil. A full decade of Halloween art, unique offerings, graven images, handmade relics, and the faithful few who return each year when the veil begins to thin.

It hardly seems possible. And yet, here we are.

What began as an idea between friends has grown into a yearly tradition, one shaped by imagination and the enduring pull of All Hallows. Year after year, you have answered the call. You have shown up with excitement, trust, and a true love for the season that means so much to all of us.

We cannot overstate our gratitude. Your support has kept this flame burning through long nights, uncertain seasons, and years when there seemed to be very little left in the tank. The Order exists because you continue to believe in it.

Over the past ten years, Halloween itself has changed. We have watched trends rise and vanish. We have seen a pandemic nearly silence the October revels altogether. We have seen the season pushed earlier and earlier into the aisles of retail stores, sometimes strange, sometimes wonderful, sometimes absurd.

But Halloween endures.

It is not merely a date on the calendar. It is a living holiday, reshaped by every generation that keeps it alive. It survives in honored traditions and treat pails, in masks and mischief, in the rustle of dry leaves, in the glow of a Jack O’ Lantern against the dark.

And for those of us who truly carry it, Halloween does not end when October passes.

Like the bright full moon of an autumn night, the real and everlasting love of All Hallows remains within our black and orange hearts, leading us onward year after year.

And for some of us, all year long.

Welcome to Year Ten.

– Jason & Sam

In the interest of streamlining our memberships, we’ve paired the packages down to two options this year: Trick or Treat

Trick is a tidy collection of Halloween art from both Jason and Sam and includes:

“Devil’s Night” by Sam Heimer

“Poisoned Treat” by Jason McKittrick

“Lamp Lighters; Reunion” by Sam Heimer

“Jack O’Lantern Light” by Jason McKittrick

Membership Certificate

Membership Pin for Year Ten

“Carry the Light” Postcard by Sam Heimer

“Verdict of the Veil Coin” with instructions

Treat is the full collection of pieces produced for Year Ten of the Order of the Thinned Veil and includes all pieces included in the “Trick” subscription plus:

“10 Years of Order of the Thinned Veil Illustrations” by Sam Heimer

“October Knave” by Jason McKittrick

“The Haunting Memory of Scent” by Sam Heimer

“The Closer of the Veil” by Jason McKittrick

Membership Certificate with custom title bestowed by Jason and Sam

Both membership tiers will also have access to members only drops – dates TBD

*MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE IN THE US ONLY*

MEMBERSHIPS CLOSE FRIDAY, JUNE 26TH

Read on for more details on each piece and to sign up!

TRICK MEMBERSHIP PACKAGE

 

“Devil’s Night” by Sam Heimer – 8”x10” digital print – A portrait of reflection on a night saturated with unbridled energy, devilish in its’ chaotic nature. Lacking rhyme, reason and agenda. Pure, wanton and impulsive. Disruptive without obvious purpose beyond disruption and irritation. Rebellion before agenda and an antagonist are cemented by coming of age and society, the only enemy is polite order. Why can’t the urge to egg a house at random  have merit? I say this as someone whose windows got egged last year and I have yet to be able to get the last of the yolk out of the screen mesh months later with multiple tries. We go through life thinking about all the porches we’d like to leave a flaming bag of shit on, but do not because that is not what mentally well adjusted adults do. I hope and pray the devils of Devil’s Night grow up and harness that energy with focus and purpose where I have not.

 

“Poisoned Treat”  by Jason McKittrick – They say that when the streets grow quiet and the porch lights begin to dim, a small figure may appear at the edge of the dark, a skull-masked child in a white homemade sheet costume, clutching a candy sack and standing deathly still. Those who see him speak of the dreadful details that mark him as no ordinary trick-or-treater: the faint sour stink of sickness, the silence that follows in his wake, and the dried vomit staining the front of his ghostly costume.

According to the story, Poisoned Treat was once a child who accepted tainted Halloween candy and died in agony before the night was over. Now his apparition returns each All Hallows as a warning, drawn to homes where trick-or-treaters may come to harm. He lingers near porches where cruelty waits behind a smiling door, where the sacred customs of Halloween have been twisted into something wicked.

Children are told to beware strange offerings, and adults are reminded that those who endanger the innocent on Halloween invite something far worse than mischief.

To glimpse Poisoned Treat is said to bring a chill deeper than autumn air, for his appearance means that somewhere nearby, the spirit of Halloween has been threatened by a wicked hand. Cast in black resin and individually hand painted. (Stands 5.5″)

 

“Lamp Lighters; Reunion” by Sam Heimer– 8”x10” digital print – Revising old concepts with an old approach and old tools yielding something new is always a lark. Something about lighting the lantern in good company, a union or bond, a friendship, jointly partaking in an act simple and pure yet giving life to something timeless and more often than not a mirror of the creators, but grander in every sense, always gives me pause. The aforementioned is in no way shape or form commentary on marriage or conception. Halloween will forever be what we (you) make it, and like snowflakes, the Halloween as it exists in the general population and in your head are two very different Halloweens. It’s a pile of memories and scars, iconography knowable to all and images solely for you. Whenever someone asks what I do for Halloween it stops me in my tracks because the holiday is deeply personal. I’m not pausing to word an answer, but deciding whether or not to let them see the little light I’ve been sheltering ( in a pumpkin ) from everyone all these years. I’ll give you glimpses in my art, but like the antagonist in a good horror movie, you’re not going to see the thing full on till it’s too late (for you), the veil lifts and you cross it.

 

“Jack O’Lantern Light” by Jason McKittrick – The immortal face of Halloween! This palm sized pumpkin light features a two piece resin cast that mimics a freshly carved and newly lit Jack O’Lantern resting on an old fence. The reverse side features two small Jacks as well. Includes LED tealight with replaceable batteries. Cast in black and translucent yellow resin. Each is individually hand painted. (3.75″ x 2″ x 2.5″)

 

Verdict of the Veil Coin – Can’t decide how your spooky season night should go? Let the Veil decide. This two-sided Halloween coin is made for settling the most sacred seasonal questions:

Are we watching something fun… or something horrifying? Are we buying a new decoration… or making one from stuff in the basement? Are we having a cozy night in… or wandering out into the October dark?

Flip the coin and accept the verdict. Treat means cozy, classic, nostalgic, sweet, and fun. Trick means scary, strange, messy, mischievous, and maybe a little unwise. Either way, Halloween wins.

Simple Rule: Ask a Halloween question. Flip the coin. Obey the Veil.

Picking a movie? Choosing Halloween décor? Planning a spooky night? Choosing a costume? Let the Veil decide!

Each membership package will receive a two sided orange “Trick or Treat” coin. (Coins are in production. Image shown is a mock-up)

 

“Carry the Light” Postcard by Sam Heimer –  5” x 7” postcard perfect for sending season salutations to a fellow keeper of the flame.

 

OTV Enamel Membership Pin – The official seal of the Order of the Thinned Veil for 2026 and symbol of membership. (Pins are in production. Image is original illustration)

 

 

Order of the Thinned Veil Membership Certificate – Proof that you’re a card-carrying member in the OTV for 2025! Hand inscribed and signed by founders Jason McKittrick and Sam Heimer.

 

The “TRICK” membership package is two shipments

$250

TREAT MEMBERSHIP PACKAGE

Treat is the full collection of pieces produced for Year Ten of the Order of the Thinned Veil and includes all pieces included in the “Trick” subscription plus:

 

“10 Years of Order of the Thinned Veil Illustrations by Sam Heimer”– A full-color, 44 page, 5”x7”, signed and numbered first edition book containing ten years worth of Halloween illustrations created by Sam Heimer for OTV. Key illustrations, promo pieces, pins and more. While this book does not contain every piece of art created for the group (due to size and page count restraints) it collects the high-points from a decade long labor of love.

 

“The Closer of the Veil” by Jason McKittrick – At the very end of Halloween’s ghostly parade walks the Closer of the Veil. Once a costumed reveler, he now appears every All Hallows Eve as a solemn Witness of the season’s ending, dressed in the dark remains of festive attire and bearing an antique parade rattle in his hand. He does not lead the procession, but follows at its furthest end, ensuring that all who belong beyond the Thinned Veil have made their crossing before him.

When the last of the parade has passed, the Closer makes his own final crossing. It is said that this act triggers the sealing of the Veil itself. The dry, mournful clatter of his rattle is the last sound of Halloween, and when it fades, All Hallows has concluded. Cast in black resin and individually hand painted. (Stands 6.75″)

The Order of the Thinned Veil Title– Jason and Sam will bestow upon you a personalized title within the Order. No two are the same!

 

“The Haunting Memory of Scent” by Sam Heimer – 8”x10” digital print – A musing on all the people I’ve lost and the things they’ve left me; a grand inheritance of memory. But lately I’m hemorrhaging my riches. And it’s not the ones I’d let go given the choice. No, not the mundane or unimportant, but pivotal moments, foundational stuff that informs personal lore and adult anxieties. There IS however a dousing wand for these lost revelries, but it sadly comes once a year. Halloween. A veritable feast for the senses on all counts. Here, I’m waxing poetic on scent. The little whiffs of this and that which at random dredge up a moment I thought I had lost. Little reminders of love and loss, achievement, family and friendship unchanging where is sits in my head until a random stimulus, chance encounter, forgotten song, dusts off that specific canister labeled nuts but oh, ho, it’s spring-loaded snakes. The problem with this memory recall and the nature of it happening is its’ randomness. Honeysuckle. Rotting leaves. Baking spice. Freshly tarred piers. Candle scorched pumpkin. Freshly baked ginger cookies. Meat charring on a grill. The mildew of a rain-soaked wood fire all bring them back to me.

 

“October Knave” by Jason McKittrick – Once the merriest fool at an old All Hallows gathering, the October Knave delighted in every prank, fright, and nervous glance cast toward the dark. But when the partygoers gathered around a spirit board and called to what lingered beyond the Thinned Veil, something answered. The Knave saw what waited there, and his laughter changed.

Now he slips through the season wherever mischief has curdled into dread, tapping at windows, rustling through dead leaves, and flashing his fixed grin from places where no reveler should be. Small as he may be, the October Knave knows every old trick of Halloween, and some that were never meant for the living.

Cast in black resin and individually hand painted. (Stands 6″)

The “TREAT” membership package is 3 separate shipments

$500

*MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE IN THE US ONLY*

MEMBERSHIPS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED