Halloween Haunts Postscript: 364 Days to Go Until Halloween By Kevin Wetmore, Halloween Haunts Curator Chicagoland artist, actor and poet Tony Fitzpatrick, who sadly passed away on October 11 of this year, once said, “Few memories evoke as much giddy…
I’ve always loved the name Halloween People, the title Kevin Wetmore’s wife gave us a few years ago. It somehow fits better than any academic label or literary genre ever could. It speaks to something beyond horror or fantasy, beyond books…
Damn it, Merv. You nearly got us all killed. On Halloween night, 1980. As ya do. Back in those days, my friend Vardell threw these awesome Halloween parties. Vardell was the son of a reverend, and he lived in this…
Commonly, it was known as Mischief Night. Detroit hellraisers called it Devil’s Night. In Michigan, New York and the Dakotas, it was referred to as Gate’s Night. All around the American northeast, you heard it riotously called “Goosey Night” or…
I’m not just a goth girl, I’m a vampire author. This means that by two “lifestyle choices” I’ve made, the lyrics to “Every Day is Halloween”—that Ministry song from -1987 that all “children of the night” have danced to at…
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. Spooky decorations, dressing up as anything you wanted to be, and roaming the streets at night collecting candy and scares, I love it all. And because I’m short and have a babyface, I…