Lovers of the weird and macabre gathered at the Sloan Convention Center for the Punk Rock Flea Market, Saturday.

The market opened up at 11 a.m. as vendors got ready to sell various merchandise, including horror movie memorabilia, alternative style art and even human skeletal remains. 

Vendor Jim Erickson of That Scumbag Jim, an independent art company, quit his job as a commercial kitchen appliance technician to pursue his art full-time.

“I drew a couple things that I wanted as stickers on my hard hat…” Erickson said. “That’s probably coming up on 10 years ago. I’ve just tried to take it a little more seriously, and this year I quit my job to try to pursue this full-time.”

Another vendor, Cheryl Jones of 13FullMoons, runs her company out of Paris, Tennessee. Jones specializes in homemade crafts, specifically her collection of wet specimens of animals. 

“I’ve always been interested in the kind of dark and morbid and weird,” Jones said. “During COVID, I got to really focus on my interests, and it was actually able to take off into a business.”

A stand-out booth at the convention belonged to Dr. Chud of “The Karens” and formerly of “Misfits”.

“We’re pretty angry about what’s going on with the government…” Chud said. “There’s no housing, there’s no healthcare, there’s no insurance. It’s ridiculous. It’s all about freedom, and that’s why we’re here, to be free.”