Eeeeeek! It’s almost Halloween! This final week of October we, here at The Midnight Society, are celebrating Halloween traditions. There are five traditions that make Halloween… Halloween. At least for me. First… costumes. Halloween was always a special day when I was a kid. My mom made us our costumes every year and did her best to make our dressing-up dreams come true. Second…pumpkin carving. Every year Dad carved a pumpkin, and each Halloween night it would shine from our front window. When we got old enough, my sisters and I got to carve o[...]
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0 Today I'm going to talk about a more modern Halloween tradition: Tumblr! Nobody loves Halloween more than Tumblr, and every year, Tumblr pulls out all the stops. It's the go to social media for all your creepy gif needs. Are you ready to add some greatness to your dashboard? The Midnight Society Tumblr Stephanie Bayles (Artist of AMAZING Spooky gifs!) Debbie Sketchblog I'm linking you right to the stuff tagged "my art". Again with the great spooky original gif art! Ghostess With the Mostest Orange Pumpkins and Black Cats The Pumpkin Queenn Halloween and[...]
I love Halloween. More than Christmas. More than Thanksgiving. More than Disneyland or sunny weather or adorable baby kittens. I have so many wonderful Halloween memories. So many that it's kind of hard to count them. When I looked at my calendar today and realized that there's only six days to Halloween, I couldn't believe it! There are so many wonderful memories. So many amazing costumes. I’m sure the rest of the Midnight Society gang will have plenty of fun to share for our Halloween Traditions week! Today I wanted to share with you my top three memo[...]
Obviously, here at The Midnight Society we are huge fans of Halloween. It’s full of Horror movies, haunted houses, and scary costumes! What more could we ask for! But, if you’re like me, sometimes coming up with all the details of a creepy costume can be tough. That is where I turn to Pinterest! As everyone knows, Pinterest is the place to go for creative ideas. I browse the app on my phone just about every spare chance that I get and I find endless writing ideas. It’s a great site for inspiration of just about any kind. Writing tips and quotes, hair and m[...]
Happy Slasher Week!!! Wait, that sounds weird when I say it out loud. *shrug* Happy slasher week! As most of you know, slasher horror is one of my favorite kinds of horror. Growing up, I absolutely loved Michael Myers, Jason, Freddy Krueger, and everything in between. Cabin in the Woods was A-MAZ-ING. Scream is still one of my go-to favorite movies of all time. Our love for the slasher genre is what led to Brian and I writing our book together. What is it about slasher books and slash[...]
This week's theme is slashers, so you'll read a tributes to our favorite villains and learn what makes a good slasher movie. As the first writer of the week, I decided to take the long view. What are the slasher's origins? What typified the slasher's heyday? How have filmmakers varied on the slasher theme since its inception? Let's take a look at slashers from before then to then to now. Before Then: The Slasher's Origins Slasher plots originated in the mystery genre as films where people were killed one by one until the killer was found. The Terror (1928): Gu[...]
Halloween has come and gone, and already the stores have started stocking holiday items. I hate this feeling -- the one you get when you see tinsel and prefab knit stockings two weeks before the clock strikes midnight on my favourite holiday of the year. I hide at home. Don't go into stores. Try to avoid the red and green and silver. It's too soon, and I'm not ready to let go quite yet. Being November 1st, I'm still holed up in my apartment, still sitting in my Halloween costume, trying to convince myself that's it's not over yet. And you know, it sorta is and i[...]
Hey ghouls and boys! Happy Friday! Halloween is now only 1 week away and I hope your festivities are revving up and you're excited and ready to party down and howl at the moon. (Those are my plans, anyway.) This is just a quick post to let you know about yet another fun event we've got going this weekend. (I say "yet another" because we've got loads of fun contests going right now. Scroll up to some earlier posts and see all of the fun things you can win!) This weekend I will be hosting a Horror Movie Plot game on Twitter! The game will be played in two ways.[...]
Hey there, boos and ghouls! Halloween is a little more than a week away, and you know what that means. Yep, your local grocery store will soon be out of Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins. It's tragic, I know. But at least we here at The Midnight Society have another fun Halloween contest to help take your mind off of it! Here are the rules: * Carve a really cool jack-o-lantern * Like The Midnight Society Facebook page * Post a picture of your really cool jack-o-lantern to our Facebook. (If you don't have Facebook, you can still participate. Just comment here o[...]