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For your enjoyment, here’s some old Halloween cards from the start of the 1900s. Back then, as you can see in the cards, the holiday was as much about cats as it was candy!
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Have a Merry Halloween!
Since the start of the pulp era, cults have been a popular subject. Usually dressed in red and concealing their faces behind hoods, cult members have menaced and frightened.
For this Halloween, here are some of the cults of the pulp era.
by Walter Baumhofer
by Arnold Kohn
by John Newton Howitt
by Rudolph Zirm
by Tom Lovell
by John Walter Scott
by George Hargis
by Harry Lemon Parkhurst
by Hugh Joseph Ward
by John Drew
by J. Allen St. John
To all of our readers
To all of our friends
To every ghoul and fiend out there,
HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM THE SHATTERED LENS!
May your Halloween bring you more candy than rocks and we hope you enjoy the last day of our annual horrorthon! Be safe, be sincere, and don’t forget the true meaning on Halloween!
“We came, we saw, we kicked its ass.”
— Ghostbusters
by Erin Nicole
Stay safe out there.
I wanted to share one last picture from my mom’s doll collection before Halloween. I can’t remember when or where she got this Casper doll but I know that I always felt happy whenever I saw him.
It was always wondered who wrote “CASPER THE GOD” on him and also why they decided he was a god instead of a ghost. Maybe his original outfit got lost and they labeled him so they wouldn’t forget who he was. But how can you forget Casper?
Happy Halloween, Casper. I’m glad that we were able to give you a home.
Previous Moments:
Skulls and bones were a mainstay on the covers of pulp and especially horror related magazines. For this Halloween, take a trip back into the bony past with a few skeletal covers from the pulp era!
by Rudolph Belarski
by Rafael De Soto
by Robert Stanley
by Robert Gibson Jones
Haunting by Erin Nicole
“Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn’t there,
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away…”
by Erin Nicole
Looking for someone?
(Mourner by Erin Nicole)
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
Through the Shattered Lens 