Vintage Postcard, Artist Unknown
“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”
Douglas Coupland
1 Day Til Halloween
Tag Archives: Halloween
Horror On TV: The Great Bear Scare (dir by Hal Mason)
I came across this old cartoon on YouTube. Apparently, it aired in October of 1983.
It’s about bears living in Bearbank. Halloween is approaching and they’re worried about getting invaded by the monsters who live on Monster Mountain. Well, that makes sense. My question is why would you buy a house near a location called Monster Mountain? And really, shouldn’t the monsters be in the houses and the bears in the mountains? This cartoon is weird.
Anyway, the bears are getting ready to feel the city but little Ted E. Bear sets out to confront his fears! Woo hoo!
I don’t know. It’s from 1983. That was a strange year, I guess.
Enjoy!
2 Days Til Halloween
1915 Postcard, artist unknown
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.”
— William Shakespeare, MacBeth
Horror On TV: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy in The Pumpkin That Wouldn’t Smile (dir by Chuck Jones)
Awwww, that poor pumpkin! Well, hopefully, he’s smiling now!
This animated special originally aired on Halloween night in 1979. I would imagine that the crying pumpkin probably traumatized children across America. Hopefully, all the kids were out trick or treating when this aired. Myself, I remember that when I was a kid, I would help my mom carve a pumpkin every year. And then I would get so depressed when we later had to throw it out. Seriously, I would get really attached to those jack o’lanterns.
Anyway, this cartoon is before my time but I have a feeling that, if I had been around to watch it, I would have been depressed for a whole year afterwards.
Enjoy!
3 Days Til Halloween
Carmilla by D.H. Friston
“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after.”
— J. Sheridan La Fanu Carmilla
4 Days Til Halloween
Varney the Vampire, artist unknown
“Tis strange what a change comes over masses of men as they gaze upon a dead body. It may be that they all know that to that complexion they must come at last. This may be the secret of the respect offered to the dead.”
— James Michael Rymer, Varney the Vampire
5 Days Til Halloween
Shadow Out Of Time, by Harold V. Brown
“After twenty-two years of nightmare and terror, saved only by a desperate conviction of the mythical source of certain impressions, I am unwilling to vouch for the truth of that which I think I found in Western Australia on the night of July 17–18, 1935.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out Of Time
6 Days Til Halloween
The King In Yellow by Earl Geier
Camilla: “You, sir, should unmask.”
Stranger: “Indeed?”
Cassilda: “Indeed it’s time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.”
Stranger: “I wear no mask.”
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) “No mask? No mask!”
— The Mask by Robert Chambers
Music Video of the Day: The Halloween Cypher 2.0 by Fisherman Guy, Chucky, Leatherface, & The Ring Girl (2015, dir by James Tangredi))
It’s always good to see the old gang back together again.
Enjoy!
Halloween Scenes I Love: Spider-Man Goes To ESU’s Halloween Party in PS4’s Spider-Man
Not all good Halloween scenes have to come from a movie. Sometimes, they can come from a video game!
One of my favorite missions in PS4’s Spider-Man is Back To School. That’s where you, as Spider-Man, have to search the Empire State University Halloween Party for an Oscorp scientist named Dr. Delaney and rescue him from Mister Negative and the Demons. Because it’s a Halloween party, you should be able to search for Delaney without anyone realizing that you’re the Spider-Man. The bad news is that, again because it’s a Halloween party, almost every party goer is dressed up like one of your enemies. And when Mister Negative does attack, it turns out that a drunk college student dressed up like the Rhino can be almost as dangerous as the actual Rhino!
Through the Shattered Lens 