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Haunting Music on iTunes

Halloween comes but once a year if you're a non-haunter, but that's not us! We love to listen to our beloved Terror Syndicate CDs all year and for every occasion - unless my family threatens to put me into one of my own coffins. One day I got to thinking - were there other types of Halloween or haunting music I might be missing? Was there better party music for my next ...

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Shy Mama’s Halloween

Book Review By Anne Broyles Halloween deserves it's reputation as the holiday that welcomes everyone as shown in this beautifully illustrated and touching book set in the 1930s. For Anya, Dasha, Irina, and Diminitrii, newly arrived to this country, Halloween seems a wonderfully strange and exciting holiday. They enlist an upstairs neighbor to help with their costumes, and Papa agrees to take them out trick-or-treating. But when Papa comes home sick that evening, it looks as though the ...

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Fangful Fantasy

A Halloween Book Review Fangful Fantasy: The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series Are you a secret Van Helsing fan? Do you watch "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," cheering her on…but secretly miss the darker style of Faith? Meet Anita Blake, vampire hunter. She lives in a slightly twisted version of modern-day America. In Anita's world, vampires, zombies and werecreatures live side by side with regular humans. Laws protect the preternatural, giving them legal rights. But when they break the law, normal ...

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Movie Review: Pumpkin Man

A Halloween Family Classic Movie - Halloween Film My love for Halloween began as a child. The thrill of choosing a costume at the local dime store and then proudly parading around school in costume remains a favorite memory. When I was 11 my mother let me host a Halloween party in our basement, complete with spooky music, scary decorations, and eerie games. If any of these memories bring a sense of déjà vu to you, ...

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