Trick or Treat Short Film

 While poking around YouTube for other Halloween related things, I fell into this wonderful 14 minute horror short and just had to share it! Just a quick note, this is not family friendly.

What I love about the Magician's costume is that the individual pieces are relatively simple but look amazing when put together. There's also something to be said about the menace of silence. I take advantage of both these things with my own Halloween costume.

If you enjoyed this, they did a "Making Of" video that's almost as long as the short.

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2022 Salem Haunted Happenings Parade

 

 While the spooky season celebrations start gearing up at the end of September, the first Thursday of October is the official kickoff to Haunted Happenings in Salem with the annual parade. This is the 40th year for Haunted Happenings and the 25th for the parade. The theme is "Who is your hero?"

I tried taking photos for you but it being at night and lit be street lamps, they mostly came out like garbage. But what I can share are a few behind the scenes photos of the parade getting ready. They prep in a large parking lot every year and it's always fun to see everyone doing their thing.

 

 

This is just a small fraction of the parade. Way off in the back is the Friendship of Salem, a 171 foot replica of a 1797 sailing ship that was built in Salem.
 

Classic Creepy Comics - St. John

 You may be thinking St. John is an odd name for a horror comic, and you'd be right. St. John is the publishing company I'm featuring today. Well, featuring may be a strong word as I'm only going over a few of their books with a common thread.

First is Weird Horrors which ran for 9 issues in 1953-1953. Like most horror comics of the time, it's an anthology series with each issue having several short stories.

After Weird Horrors nine issues, the numbering switched over to Nightmare until number 13. I still don't know why companies would keep the numbering and change the title. I should probably look that up sometime. How great is this cover by Joe Kubert? The guy kind of reminds me of Cain from DC's House of Mystery.

 

Issue 14 becomes Amazing Ghost Stories and ironically, contains no stories with ghosts! That's because the final three issues in this lineage are reprints. This one from Nightmare (not the same one above, but a different publisher) and the others are of Weird Thrills, both originally published by Ziff-Davis.

 

All these comics are legally available for free on Comic Book+. You can read them online or, if you create a free account, you can download them. The are usually in cbr or cbz format. You'll need a program to read them (I use CDisplay) or you can unzip them and view the individual pages.

 

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