The Year of Halloween – Page 116 – All the Halloween you can Handle

Recent Posts - page 116

Friday Night Features: “The Umbrella Factory” Short Film

By Evahalloween on May 17, 2014 • ( 7 )

Kittens, most of you are likely familiar with the 1902 short story by W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey’s Paw, in which a magical talisman interprets a careless wish in the most frightfully literal way possible. Today’s featured horror short, The Umbrella Factory, directed by Lexie… Read More ›
31 Halloween Activities #7: Embarrass Your Pet

By Acadia Einstein on May 14, 2014 • ( 4 )

Dressing animals up on Halloween is an injustice. We should really be dressing them up all year round. If they are too hot in the spring, put them in a bathing suit! You could take all your cats, give them… Read More ›
A Helping (Albeit Severed) Hand…Charities and Horror Conventions

By choofabulous on May 12, 2014 • ( 3 )

Over the last few years of conning I have noticed something. I know… there are a lot of things one notices at horror conventions. But this made me feel warm and fuzzy….not scared and dizzy. I noticed that many of… Read More ›

Featured Categories

Fiction ›

Weird Stories: 5 Fiction Writing Tips from H. P. Lovecraft
November 18, 2014
31 Halloween Activities #19: Read a Book
September 3, 2014
Unimaginable Cosmic Castles: 9 Winter Horror Tales to Keep You Warm
January 23, 2014
A Man, Tall and Thin, and Ghastly Pale: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
November 8, 2012

History (Haunted and Otherwise) ›

Dancing Skeletons and Troublesome Heads: Joyously Macabre Films of the 1890s
November 10, 2014
In a Smile of Peculiar Meaning: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Berenice”
August 25, 2014
It Is the Hour of Departure: Turn-of-the-Century Ghost Rides
July 30, 2014
20th Century Glamour Ghoul: Honoring Maila Nurmi’s Vampira
March 12, 2014

Paranormal Activities ›

Paranormal News: Ronald DeFeo Jr (Amityville Killer) Dies in Jail – What’s YOUR Ghost Story?
March 25, 2021
Posts from Beyond the Grave: Hauntings Edition
October 17, 2018
The Spirits of the Dead May Walk Again: 5 Chilling Ghost Photos
November 25, 2014
Every Stone is Mouldering Slow: The 25 Creepiest Places on Earth
August 21, 2014

TV & Film ›

Silent Sundays: Nosferatu (1922)
July 1, 2016
Reflecting on the AHS Hotel Finale: Now What Will We Watch?
January 26, 2016
I’m A Ghost! American Horror Story Hotel Episode 11
January 13, 2016
It’s the Story of Turkey Skin: American Horror Story Hotel Returns
January 6, 2016