A Celebration of Horror and Halloween
A Celebration of Horror and Halloween
We gather here at the genesis of another season of screams; night has descended and the doors to many haunted attractions hungrily await the arrival of eager guests. Accompanied by a rush of excitement and a tinge of dizzied disbelief,…
The haunt schedule can be a restless beast — there are time restraints, geographic considerations, unexpected vehicle maintenance and of course the threat of inclement weather. The 2014 schedule was made all the more problematic when some friends and I…
2014 offered a haunt season not soon to be forgotten. Let us now ponder some pertinent numbers. 24: Number of attractions at 14 unique locations that we visited — this total topped the previous record of 23 first set in…
Rotten Pumpkin – The Rotten Pumpkin award is given to the haunt considered to be the most disappointing of the season. Disappointment may be the result of an over hyped marketing campaign or the failure of the haunt to live…
This edition of Hallowblog Flashback recalls a Word of the Week entry originally posted on Monday, October 26, 2009. The title of this entry was taken from some lines I had jotted down for a poem during the spring of…
This Word of the Week entry blinked into existence on Monday, October 19, 2009. The third installment of the Halloween themed WOTW has a lot of descriptions, enjoy. wicked [wi-ked] – adjective: morally bad: evil, sinful; fierce, vicious
This Word of the Week entry was originally posted Monday, October 12, 2009. In it, I waxed philosophical on Bram Stoker’s Dracula and George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. So many of our favorite ghouls, goblins, creeps, and…
This Word of the Week entry was originally posted on Monday, October 5, 2009. This Halloween season we start with a word that can represent many things but for our purposes it signifies those iconic symbols of horror that make…
2008 marked the first season that I compiled numbers such as those listed below; it was also the first year that I assigned awards on such a scale. On occasion I will look back over past awards and wonder if…
This entry was originally posted Monday, October 27, 2008; the title was, as you may notice, the inspiration for the Horrorlust Eerie Vibrations Award. The last Halloween themed WOTW for 2008 has arrived and this one is a quality that…
