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Halloween is such a great event and with the advent of smartphone apps you can enjoy your favorite parts of Halloween everywhere you go. We tested dozens of apps and compiled a list of the 8 best ones we could find in terms of the most imagination and uniqueness. We hope you enjoy these selections and have a Happy Haunted Halloween!
1. Halloween Deluxe ($0.99)
Halloween wouldn't be complete without scary sounds and this app lets you do that and more. Opt for the paid ...
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With the approach of Halloween comes another tradition - the release of a new album from horror masters Midnight Syndicate (Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka.) Their albums - Carnival Arcane is their 14th - always fills the air with Gothic dread, ambient sounds and creepy instruments. If the "things that go bump in the night" had a soundtrack, Midnight Syndicate would ring through the echoing halls ...
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Whenever I build a Halloween haunt, a horror soundtrack is always running through my mind – while planning this year's layout (always a maze), hiding the monster props in nooks, and decorating the rooms. A house is not a creepy Victorian mansion until you add the lighting, the fog and, of course, the creepy soundtrack dripping in the background.
Most of you have heard of Midnight Syndicate. A decade and a half in business, Edward Douglas, along with Gavin Goszka, has ...
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So there I was, tending my small pumpkin patch on the roof (not a roof-top garden, the vines had escaped my backyard and had crawled all over my bungalow) when this strange fellow, previously curled up in a leaf, emerged, yawned, and asked for some refreshments.
Over a cup of pumpkin juice, he explained his story to me and a strange tale about a pumpkin dream. It was a cautionary tale, and he spoke all in rhyme. Though it was a ...
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In their first book, Lynne and Shawn Mitchell took you through a gorgeous and macabre world of Halloween prop-building to haunt your house. How to Haunt Your House, Book Two, I’m happy to say, is not a rehash of their first book, but a worthy companion that ambitiously expands on their haunting tutorials, while easily standing on its own with all new projects, styles and techniques, ...
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Editor's Note: Getting ready for Halloween - In July!
Special edition The Dead Matter DVD set including soundtrack and Midnight Syndicate Greatest Hits CD available at all HOT TOPIC stores nationwide.
July 30, 2010 (Cleveland, OH) Midnight Syndicate Films is releasing a special edition of The Dead Matter DVD that will include two bonus CDs by gothic Halloween music artists Midnight Syndicate. It will be available at all Hot Topic stores nationwide on July 30th. It will also be ...
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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 bash that I'd never heard? ...
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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 children will be watching the ...
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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 cops aren't equipped to deal ...
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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, then the independent, short film ...
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