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“, “Tricks for the Treat“, “Tricked Out Treats“, “Tricks and Treats and Such Small Deer“, and “Trick Treatment“. Horror, death or Halloween-themed columns of the past year included Day of the Dead 2023, Diary #697, and “Why Zombies?” There are creepy or spooky-fun videos in Links #695, #698, #721, #722, #739, #745, and #746, and a collection of seasonal links appears below.
- Sounds legit.
- Nightmare of the week.
- Lovecraftian algorithms.
- Alien: The Short Version.
- Horror movie locale map.
- This is a really scary story.
- I hate it when this happens.
- At the Mountains of Madness.
- Lovecraftian romance comics.
- I’m also not very fond of this.
- The Onion, on a seasonal roll.
- Recipes from Aleister Crowley.
- I hate when this happens, too.
- Black humor is the best humor.
- The Onion has a gift for horror.
- Another nightmare of the week.
- The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil.
- The legend of the black-eyed children.
- I don’t use the word “ghoulish” lightly.
- Mummy cheese from the Leng Plateau.
- On Corman’s Masque of the Red Death.
- The US only thinks it has immigration issues.
- Cop shoots up a grade-school Halloween party.
- This happens more often than you might think.
- Strange immigrants in small New England town.
- “I am not that daemon swineherd in the twilit grotto!“
- It’s almost like scientists never watch science fiction shows.
- “Haskell tried to pass the body parts off as Halloween props.“
- “There is always this urge to use [new technology] to contact the dead“.
