More Trick Or Treat

It’s a perfect night for mystery and horror.  The air itself is filled with monsters.   –  Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) in Bride of Frankenstein

Last year I celebrated the Halloween season with a collection of horror-themed links, both to columns on my blog and to articles off of it.  If you missed that one, you definitely ought to take a look at it; this is just an update, rounding up things I’ve featured since last October 28^th.  First and foremost, of course, are last year’s columns for the holiday itself, “Halloween 2013” and “The Dance of Death“.  Despite its name, “Buried But Not Dead” isn’t really on the subject, but “Total Perspective Vortex” and “Cleansing Fire” are (at least a bit).  And I think “The Pit” definitely qualifies.  Last October’s harlotography was on the serial killer Aileen Wuornos (certainly an appropriate seasonal topic), and I featured either scary or creepy-fun videos in Links #171, #172, #173, #174, #176, #183, #206 and #212.  Earlier this year on May Eve I shared some less-known horror books, poems and videos; also, my own stories “The Other Side“, “Invasion” and this month’s “The Company of Strangers” are all solidly in the horror genre.  Finally, here’s a list of creepy, spooky, horror or monster-related links from the past year:

• Creepypasta.
• Anti-test demons.
• Gothic cosmology.
• Which witch are you?
• They Stole JFK’s Brain.
• A history of dark rides.
• The Devil’s map of the USA.
• Poetry comics: “Annabel Lee”.
• Famous monsters of Congress.
• A field guide to doppelgängers.
• Photographs of children’s nightmares.
• Adding monsters to thrift-store paintings.
• An army of huge rats?  Definitely seasonal.
• Forget the turducken; behold the CTHUKEN!
• For the well-dressed Icelandic necromancer.
• The history and psychology of the Ouija board.
• That HPL really knows the eldritch secrets of a truly sick party.
• 22 horror movies & 9 contemporary horror stories available free online.
• Man supposedly changes into python and swallows girl in a hotel room.