My favorite Halloween posts from over the years

All Hallows' Eve greetings to one and all!

I hope your neighborhoods are filled with safe and happy trick-or-treaters tonight. As you prepare to greet the little ghosts and ghouls at the door, here, for your reading pleasure, are some of my favorite Papergreat Halloween- and horror-themed blog posts, dating all the way back to 2011.  

From 2011: It's nothing a little Witch Cream won't cure

From 2011: Clowns. Why'd it have to be clowns? 

From 2011: Witches and zombies and scarecrows! Oh my!

From 2012: Horrifying ephemeral images that will haunt you this Halloween

From 2013: Which movies gave you the biggest fright?

From 2014: Scholastic Fest: #12, Witch in the House

From 2015: Joyful Hallowe'en: Mild Fear 2015 begins with a vintage postcard

From 2015: Vintage Halloween postcard: The Witch (Julius Bien)

From 2015: Questions, answers & mysteries with Hookland's David Southwell (Part 1)

From 2016: Found photo: She's waiting for someone to throw flowers with

From 2016: Book cover: "Galaxy of Ghouls"

From 2016: Vintage Halloween postcard: "Make a ring of pumpkin seeds..."

From 2017: 1969 Jersey Devil postcard illustrated by Ed Sheetz

From 2017: Vintage postcard: A Jolly Hallowe'en; plus, links to other spooky cards

From 2017: Have a very Baba Yaga Halloween

From 2018: Book of Forbidden Knowledge

From 2019: Book cover: "Haunted Britain"

From 2019: Spooky Tuck & Sons Hallowe'en postcard mailed in 1910

From 2019: Book cover: "Haunted England"

From 2020: Mr. Bill & the Beistle cat

From 2020: Remembering "Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful"

From 2020: I told you there would be dolls

From 2021: Where does this Kodak snapshot rank on the Mild Fear scale?

From 2021: Nostalgia lane: "Lonesome Ghosts" on the Fisher-Price Movie Viewer

From 2021: 1977's "Supermonsters" and 1920's "Der Golem"

From 2021: 1977 children's book about actual (maybe) haunted house

From 2021: Alan Ormsby's 1970s: Summoning zombies and a Scholastic book

(2021 is maybe the best overall year of Halloween posts, check them all out at Mild Fear 2021)

From 2022: Adolf Born's groovy title illustrations for "The Girl on a Broomstick"

From 2023: Photos of Sutton, West Virginia, and the Flatwoods Monster Museum

From 2024: Hans Holzer's "The Psychic World of Plants"

From 2024: Book cover: "Will Eisner's Gleeful Guide to Occult Cookery"

From 2024: Intellivision's "Night Stalker," my first survival horror video game

From 2024: Triad and Stevie and witches, oh my

From 2025: Realms of the uncanny: Dreamcore, backrooms & liminal spaces

From 2025: Book cover: "A Dream of Dracula" — plus other vampire stuff

From 2025: Milkwalker knows where you live

From 2025: VHS tapes are improbably popular again, with horror leading the way

From 2025: Obscure book: "Gabby's Magic Brooms" take on U.S. car culture

From 2026: Book cover: Ida Chittum's "Tales of Terror" (1975)

From 2026: After decades, my final mystery has been solved