The Skull Club began as a grade-school kid’s group in the 60s. This little kiddie-cabal huddled together in schoolyard and back porch hideouts in their South Side Chicago neighborhood. The kids loved to play the game Green Ghost and celebrate scary movies. They created their official Secret Book of the Skull Club as a crude 3-ring binder covered with spooky images.

Green Skull, the group’s founder, housed and curated The Secret Book of the Skull Club. Like an altarpiece, the Book lived under Skully, a plastic glow-in-the-dark skull dripping with candle wax. This treasured volume enclosed his friends’ funny, imaginative and highly original art and writing. The kids created their own Secret Names inscribed therein, and created solemn vows for their own induction ceremony. The Skull Club continued into its members’ teens and beyond, and almost went dormant. Nearly two decades later, an artist who took the name Skill Skull discovered The Skull Club Book at his friend Green Skull’s apartment.

The Book’s surprising, hilarious kids’ artwork entranced him. Inspired, Skill Skull got all his artist pals to revive the group. On a summer night, the Skull Club was reborn as a witchy gathering. Prospective members, mostly artists, in ghostly masks and robes, were initiated into this new adult version of The Skull Club. They conjured up their Secret Names. What followed? Much dancing, drinking, revelry, and art-making, for the Secret Book. Today, the Skull Club thri a multi-generational party pod of creative Dionysians..