Pumpkinhead

## Appearance and Physical Traits

Pumpkinheads are seven feet tall with green skin gnarled like vines and with little thorns dotting the surface. Their heads are pumpkins with a grinning jack-o-lantern face and flames from within lighting the triangles of their eyes and nose.

Their skin is not quite as warm as a human being’s and is extremely dry, they lack bones, can feel the wind inside their heads, and breathing will make their candle flame flicker.

They have a second form were their body grows three times its size, their skin turns green-brown, a massive viney tail extends from their back and the thorns on their arms expand to the size of kitchen knives.

In this second form their features were more jagged their candle flame becomes larger and more torch like and their voice sounds like the roar of a bonfire with heat coming from their mouth in shimmering waves and the targets of their vengeance will see their crimes dancing within the fire.

They smell like "Halloween" or burned pumpkin.

## Socio-Cultural Characteristics

Pumpkinheads are the spirits of vengeance and lose control when someone has hurt an innocent growing to the size of ogres in attempt to kill whatever had set them off but they can be scared into backing down although there are not many monster who are capable of doing so.

They live underground in pumpkin patches and both monsters and humans have the right to summon a Pumpkinhead, usually at night and under a harvest moon for tradition’s sake, to enact vengeance for them by canting "Pumpkinhead, Pumpkinhead, Sleepin’ in your earthen bed, A guilty man, he has fled, Hunt him down and make him dead." which is a call they can't resist.

However ever since the Night War prank "calls" happen occasionally to Pumpkinheads who rise only to have to put out a flaming paper bag of dog poop.

## Skills, Abilities and Weaknesses

**Enhanced Strength:** Pumpkinheads are strong enough to lift a car.

**Enhanced Durability:** Pumpkinheads are bulletproof.

**Multiple Forms:** They have a second form three times their normal size complete with a massive viney tail and thorns on their arms size of kitchen knives.

**Burrowing:** Can emerge from the ground like they're riding an invisible elevator.

**Conversion:** can turn humans into Pumpkinheads by killing them and burying them in a pumpkin patch.

**Alcohol:** due to Pumpkinheads having a flame within their head imbibing flammable substances like alcohol will hurt them although not as much as the blood of innocents.

**Chicken Blood:** phobia, chicken blood will cause Pumpkinheads to panic and flee.

**Blood of Innocents:** weakness, The blood of innocents can hurt a Pumpkinhead.

## References

1. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 307-310)
2. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Location 4022)
3. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Location 4024)
4. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Location 321)
5. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Location 339)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 City of Devils (Kindle Locations 323-327)
7. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 4334-4336)
8. ↑ “Oh,” said Sam. “I realize this is a sensitive topic, but I do need to know the nature of the attack. It makes my flames burn with righteous justice, and the perpetrators will have to see their crimes dancing within the fire… it’s really an important part of the whole package.” Then, in response to the blank looks he was getting, he finished with, “Pumpkinhead stuff.” - Vengeance is Fine
9. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 317-318)
10. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 486-492)
11. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 4330-4331)
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 The words woke him up.
He heard them, muddy and soft, through six feet of meaty soil and thready pumpkin roots. They yanked him out of sleep and out of the earth. He couldn’t have resisted if he tried. When those words were spoken in his pumpkin patch, it was time to get up. Time to get down to business.
Pumpkinhead, Pumpkinhead,
Sleepin’ in your earthen bed,
A guilty man, he has fled,
Hunt him down and make him dead.
Sam had never believed the old stories of the pumpkinhead in his human days, no matter how solemnly his grandma had told them. Then one grabbed him, knocked him over the head with a shovel, and buried him beneath this very pumpkin patch. Now he believed, even if he had no idea how mere words could have so much power.
He emerged from the ground like he was riding an invisible elevator.

Normally when someone called him, they were alone. A lot of times they’d be crying, too, this being their last resort for any kind of peace. It was usually night, usually under a harvest moon for tradition’s sake. Most often they were monsters, but humans had a right to call him, too. That was a great way to meet new people to introduce to the wonderful world of the pumpkinhead. - Vengeance is Fine
13. ↑ This wasn’t a prank call. It happened now and again. Summon a pumpkinhead for vengeance and greet him with a flaming paper bag of dog poop. In the old days, knocking over cows was enough for folks, but the Night War opened up a sea of possibilities. Granted, gaslighting a spirit of vengeance had more than a small element of risk, but that didn’t seem to be the case here. - Vengeance is Fine
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1  City of Devils (Kindle Location 343)
15. ↑  City of Devils (Kindle Locations 4013-4015)
16. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 4040-4042)
17. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 314-315)
18. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 4035-4038