2015-10-26 06:00:13Ghosts have become one of Halloween’s most beloved icons, and each October we see them manifest in everything from terrifying haunted attractions to whimsical decorations. Haunted locations boast increased traffic, and ghost-themed movies scare up box office dollars. But…

2015-10-25 06:00:44Horror industry laymen offer me a standard observation when Halloween rolls around.  “This is like your high holy day, isn’t it?” Why, yes, Mr. Joking To Cover Up Your Discomfort, when I’m not carving upside-down pentagrams into my 4-…

2015-10-24 06:00:08From vampires, plague victims, ghosts, golems, and the gate to Hell, some of the best stories are buried in cemeteries.  These are some of my favorites.  All of these burial grounds are open to visitors. Chinko-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan…

2015-10-23 10:00:16Hallowe’en never really meant that much to me when I was a kid… well, not when I was a teenager, anyway. I was born in late 1961.  My childhood, as it turned out, was one of above average mobility…

2015-10-23 06:00:11During the late 1970s and 1980s, the city of Detroit was plagued by Mischief Night or Devil’s Nights riots that saw widescale arson attacks taking place over the Halloween period, kicking off the night before on 30th October). The…

2015-10-21 06:00:54When one is a child, Halloween is about trick-or-treating for candy. Treats as in Halloween, and not from any other holiday. Except in 1965, I learn the horror of Easter peeps. Those marshmallow treats in shapes of yellow chicks.…

2015-10-20 10:00:01 I’m a proud Dane and we are often considered the “Happiest people on Earth”. Danes, apparently, live a life of bliss in The Fairy Tale Nation of H. C. Andersen. This is mostly true, but growing up here…

2015-10-20 06:00:25Yep, I’m an old guy, so I remember going trick or treating back in the ‘60s (that’s a date, not a temperature) in a housing subdivision in Illinois. The subdivision was plenty big (all pre-fabricated houses; our family watched…