Spooky Playing Cards by Puckator UK

 Puckator is a UK based retailer and I picked these up early in the season so I don't even remember where/how I found them. They're easy enough to find if you want to pick them up.

 

 I think this is the first deck I've had that has purple cards! The cards themselves are really nice and have a linen finish. They're a bit thicker than your regular playing card.

 

 Most of the number cards are standard but these have some extra art on them. I'm not sure what the decision process was in choosing these specific cards to get a little ghastly glow up. The art style reminds me of sticker sheets from the 80s.

 

 All of the face cards have unique art featuring ghosts, black cats, graves, and cauldrons.

 

 

Even though this one doesn't have art on every card, it's a pretty good Halloween themed deck from the purple cards to the cutesy art style. You could probably even come up with a game where the numbered art cards have special abilities.

 

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Here's Lucy - Lucy Cuts Vincent's Price

Today's post came about from a random reel that I saw on Facebook featuring a clip from this show. I don't think I even know the show existed. It ended it's six year run when I was only four years old. If anyone did see it, they would no doubt remember it for it's stop motion opening.

 

 In the show, Ball plays a widow raising her two children (her real-life kids Luci Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr) and working for an entertainment agency owned by her brother-in-law played by her long time comedy partner Gale Gordon. The show featured a number of guest stars over its run and that's what brings us here today!

 

  

Season 3, episode 9 is titled "Lucy Cuts Vincent's Price" and starts out with Lucy and her kids at an art auction because it's educational, they have nice refreshments, and it's free. The kids fight over who gets a cookie and Lucy yells out they can split it 50/50 which the auctioneer takes as bid on a painting.

 

 

Back at the office, Lucy frets that she doesn't have enough money in her checking to cover the cost of the painting. Her co-worker says it may be worth more than it appears and suggests getting it appraised. Lucy remembers her agency provided entertainment for the Prices and sets up a meeting over the phone with Vincent's wife to have him take a look. Her kids are hesitant to let her go alone, thinking Price will be like the villains he's portrayed.

 

  

Meanwhile, Price is meeting with his producer at his home where they've converted his library into a laboratory to shoot torture scenes for his new movie: Who's Afraid of Virginia's Wolfman! Price is expecting his female co-star to show up to rehearse their scenes and well...you can probably guess where it goes from there!

 

 The episode isn't particularly Halloween-y but I wasn't letting October go by without posting something about Vincent Price! I really enjoyed him in this episode because you get to see him do something he doesn't usually do: comedy! There's a fun physical bit where Lucy is trying to escape and has to unlock a bunch of locks on a door and he's behind her re-locking them as she undoes them.

 

This episode (along with the whole series) is streaming for free on Tubi, which is also a great place to find your next horror watch for the month!

 

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Halloween Hot Wheels 2026 - Dodge Charger Stock Car

Not the most exciting Hot Wheels car name ever but it does what it says.

Here's the Halloween Dodge Charger Stock Car.

 

As you might guess, this 2005 car is modeled on the Dodge Charger stock cars that were used in NASCAR races. This is the 18th release for the model. It's last appearance was in a 2022 Marvel series where it had a Spider-Man deco.

 

 Being a stock racing car, there's nothing wild about the body itself but I'm imagining an entire NASCAR type race where all the vehicles are Halloween themed and maybe even the drivers are in costume.

 

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