Husband-and-wife duo Dean and Marta Gibson are bringing a touch of the macabre to San Marcos with the reopening of Freaky Findz. Set to open this fall in the former Paper Bear storefront at 218 N. LBJ Drive.

The store, which specializes in costumes, masks, gag gifts and theatrical makeup started when Dean was a child. When Dean got feeling in his hands again after a polio vaccine left him paralyzed, his doctor suggested working on model kits as therapy, and his parents purchased horror-themed ones.

“After a while, I got better at the kits, and I decided to enter them in a contest and ended up winning and got to meet Lon Chaney Jr., the original Wolfman,” Dean said. “Meeting him and my interest in monster makeup and costuming has been a very big influence in my life.”