Tricks and Treats and Such Small Deer

I’ve always been dedicated to the idea of this as the time of year for spooky fun.  So every year I collect all the spooky, creepy or scary content from the previous year into one place just before Halloween.  If you’ve come to my blog in the past year, or don’t remember previous editions, they are “Trick or Treat”, “More Trick or Treat“, “Tricks and Treats“, “This Trick’s a Treat”, “Tricky Treats“, “A Trickle of Treats”, “Tricking and Treating“, and “Tricks for the Treat“.  Oddly, though there were enough spooky or Halloweeny links to justify collecting them, the only horror, death or Halloween-themed column of the past year was “Books of the Dead“, and the only creepy or spooky-fun video appeared in Links #591.  Here’s hoping for a better collection next year!

• As one does.
• Necromantics.
• R.I.P. Anne Rice.
• I hear dead people.
• Nightmare of the week.
• When pigs become ghouls.
• Lovecraftian prohibitionism.
• The sad decline of “fact checking”.
• I checked, and this is actually real.
• The great Glasgow Vampire Hunt of 1954.
• I’m pretty sure I’ve already seen this one.
• The French Lovecraft revival of the late ’50s.
• I’m sure a license would have prevented this.
• I know I saw this one on TV in the early ’80s.
• Don’t any archeologists watch horror movies?
• Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
• I’m pretty sure it was buried like this so it wouldn’t be opened.

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