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Ghastly Greetings was founded in 2005 by Chase Tyler and Lisa Wisely.
Chase recalls, “As a kid, my mother forced me to write handwritten thank you cards each and every time a drunk uncle sent me a $1 bill in a birthday card. I pulled random kitty-cat themed thank you cards from a giant box stuck under the sewing machine. Writing those cards felt worse than doing homework, but I sent them anyway because Mom reminded me that it was the only way to make sure to get more cards the next birthday. I didn’t care about getting another dollar: I had a shitty paper route and I was an adept shoplifter, but it made me feel important to get mail addressed to me alone.”
 Lisa laments, “I spent most of the my teenager years hiding in my parents unfinished basement listening to The Smiths, writing letters and cards to various worldwide pen pals. This was long before the Internet existed. I remember running home from school to see which one of my Robert Smith-look-alike pen pals had sent me a piece of mail. At that horribly awkward and miserable stage in my life, those letters got me through. Besides the ones my parents threw away the minute I left for college, I still have most of them to this day.”
Now that we communicate with friends and loved ones almost exclusively by e-mail, handwritten cards and letters have become more precious to us then ever.
Ghastly Greetings works with talented artists who have a range of styles yet share a common aesthetic that is fun, evocative, stylish and somehow a little ghastly. Our goal is to bring their work to the accessible and affordable medium of greeting cards, which we would want to send to our friends and enemies.
We also collaborate with artists to create Ghastly Greetings originals for Holidays and occasions. If you are an artist who thinks that your work would fit in with our aesthetic or would like to work with us on creating Ghastly Greetings originals, please contact us; we would love to hear from you.
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