halloween
Get into the Halloween spirit; all about trick or treating, spooky costumes, Halloween decorations and haunted houses for October 31st and all year round.
We Can Pass As Twins, Right?
Imagine yourself standing in a Spirit Halloween, fiercely googling and wildly pacing the aisles. Your past Halloween costumes have earned you quite the reputation and you know you have to deliver this year. You and your costume-partner-in-crime (who also happens to be your older male cousin (for context, I'm female)) have done everything from Jack and Rose (no romance scenes were reenacted here) and Lydia and Beetlejuice to Gomez and Morticia (wow, another couple? yikes) and Yzma and Kronk (an ambitious journey that ultimately ended poorly). As creepy and line-crossing as it sounds, it's all too innocent. You've just about given up. You know you want to be something scary, not too complicated but unique. Suddenly, it hits you. Well, actually, you can stop imagining if you'd like. This is about me. It hits me. The terrifying Jack Torrence and one of the spooky Grady Twins. 'But wait', my cousin expresses, just as I'm thinking it, 'you can't have just one twin.' So, through a burst of wheezing laughter, it's decided. We'll both be the twins. We can pass as twins, right? I, with my 5'7, 150 lbs frame, alongside my stocky, 6'0, heavily-bearded cousin, posing as twin little girls in flouncy dresses. The thought was beyond comical to us, and we knew, then, that it was the one. The winner for our costume of Halloween 2020.
By Raine Neal5 years ago in Horror
Pumpkin Resurrected
When Eryn found out she wasn’t allowed to go out for Halloween under the new pandemic restrictions, she grew angrier. If her parents were dead set against her going out, she would just wait until they were asleep. She stormed off to her room and grabbed that old Ouija board from the closet that her grandfather had warned her about years ago, “It holds a terrifying and powerful aura that can bring out the worst spirits” he would always say but at that point in time she was to angry to give it a thought. It got to be about 10:30 pm and she could see her parents slowly drifting off to the movie they were watching. Eryn slowly and quietly made her way to her room grabbing candles, a lighter and the pumpkin they had carved just days before. She took one last look see if the coast was clear and slowly climbed through her window. It was off to the old cemetery she went.
By Eryn Dawn Beeching5 years ago in Horror
Hogwarts, class of 2020
I'm gonna be honest. This year has not been great. Not at all. That's why within the last month every single time I was getting obsessed about Halloween and telling people about my costume, everyone was shocked that I even had any Halloween plans. Even more when they realized my plans included a full on costume I've been preparing for way too long and no intentions of going to a party at all!
By Martyna Dearing5 years ago in Horror
First Skeleton
This, this was the second time I had worked with professional level face paint of any kind. By professional I mean water-activated face paints that aren’t the grease paints from your typical Halloween or department store. I have nothing against grease paints, they are also great in an experienced artist’s hands. These water-activated paints just happened to be the ones I decided to start with to give face painting a try. This was my first time ever attempting to do a classic skeleton face. It took four hours to complete and I had not seen anyone in my friends or family spend that kind of time on Halloween makeup before. I can only assume the reasoning was that it wasn’t worth it to them to spend so much time on one face for one day, but it was absolutely worth it to me. Halloween has always been my favorite time of year, ever since I was a child. Of course, the candy was great as a kid, but it was more of a bonus for me because I just LOVED to dress up and be something other than myself for a day of fun, frolicking and playing pretend as some creepy creature. I’m not sure why but Halloween has become quite big for all ages, and I’m curious to know why we all find it so alluring to play make-believe as someone or something else for a day. The decor adds a whole other layer as well. Halloween decorations have always filled me with wonder and I think that’s how I came to be so in awe and passionate about Halloween. The whimsical Halloween inspiration that can fill children and adults alike with such joy has always enveloped me, and no one did it better than my auntie. My auntie actually wasn’t my aunt, she’s was my babysitter for many years, but she was family to me. Every year she would always transform her home and wardrobe into a fantastical array of Halloween displays. I would walk up always so excited to see her house even though she generally always had the same decor every year, it still gave me that same feeling EVERY time. She did however change her costume each year and my family and I were always very excited to see what she would come up with. She made most of her costumes, all of which I still have today after she had given them to me before she passed. It’s something unexplainable, the feelings she promoted in me on those Halloween nights every year. I believe it ignited something in me that has been an unwavering flame ever since. After I completed this skeleton face, I would go out to a local farm that puts on children’s Halloween festivals and take pictures with all the youngsters and their families. Because I know how much absolute amazement, warmth, and joy I got as a kid from my auntie and so many others who would put on these grand displays at Halloween, I too wanted to instill that in children and adults alike. It’s wonderful to be on both sides of giving and receiving those gifts and feel the same way on both ends. I actually had worked on this farm and people were paid to dress up and walk around for the kids, but I wasn’t ever put on the dress up team. Perhaps they didn’t know my skills, and to be fair, I didn’t even know about until I did this skeleton that day. But I didn’t care, I went anyway cause I wanted to be there. It made me feel so good to do that and I didn’t give one stitch about if I was paid or not. That’s how much I love Halloween. I love Halloween so much to spend four-plus hours on face makeup, spend countless hours searching on the internet and visiting every Halloween store for the perfect accessories, decorating to the nines and planning a whole day of easy to eat meals where I would have to eat tiny bites and drink through a straw tediously just to make sure the makeup stays nice, all without being paid so that I could make kids feel how I felt on Halloween when I was their age.
By Cassandra Ritter5 years ago in Horror
Pitter Patter, It's Halloween
Halloween is a holiday entrenched in the fascination of death, and the polarity of humans engaging in completely faux behavior, adopting entirely different personalities to accompany their doctored appearance. In a way it’s comical to display such indifference to the harsh realities of life.
By Dan Pittman5 years ago in Horror
The Passenger
The Passenger: It was a cool night on October 20, 2013 just 11 days before Halloween Henry Johnson 6’4” man tan complexion was at his office just finishing up work for the night, so he called his wife Jenny to let her know he was coming home she was happy to hear his voice and told him she loved him.
By Juan C. Ruiz5 years ago in Horror
Norma
As a lover of Halloween, I wouldn't be true to my love if I hadn't been an actor in the haunted houses that the masses flock to every October. My love of Halloween started at a young age although really I can only remember it from being school aged outside in the dark in a costume. I recall not being afraid of the dark, but feeling elated at being outside in a costume when I usually would have been inside. I still feel that spark to this day.
By Yvette McDermott5 years ago in Horror
