Get to Know the Midnight Society: Halloween Style!

The Midnight Society 

We update you daily on the creepy crawly world out there, wouldn’t you like to get to know some of us a little better? I posed some questions to The Midnight Society members below, and they gravefully gave up some details on their Halloween lives.

@JoleneHaley

What are your Halloween traditions? 

I trick-or-treated for a long time until I just couldn’t get away with it anymore…we’re talking well into my twenties. Now, we mainly watch movies and hand out candy. We usually watch scary movies. Plus, where I live in Huntington Beach, they have a huge free celebration on Main St. on the beach so we usually stop down there for a bit.

What’s the best Halloween costume you’ve ever worn?

I was Little Red Riding hood one year. My brother dressed up as the wolf. We spent the entire month in our costumes chasing each other around. It was glorious. Oh, and one year I was Ariel, you know, The Little Mermaid. I even had a long red wig. I was wearing it for first grade parade around school. This bitch named Brook pulled my wig off to be mean. If I ever see her again, I’m going to pop her right in the kisser.

What do you love best about Halloween?

I love EVERYTHING. The idea of being someone else for the night. Free candy. Intrigue. Mysteries. Scary movies. Graveyards. The idea that strange and wonderful things can happen on Halloween. And this year, I love our Midnight Society month of celebration. <3

@kissedbyink

What are your Halloween traditions?

My entire family loves Halloween. The best part is creating the kids’ costumes, which we never purchase. Last year, my daughter wanted to be Bloody Mary. We searched for the perfect dress at the thrift shop. After finding a nightgown and flowers, we took fake blood and went to town! It was the most fun we’ve ever had. At the last minute, my son decided to trick-or-treat. I finally found a use for my bridesmaid dress! He became Tim Curry from Rocky Horror Picture Show and we had a blast! And what would Halloween be without a scary movie? We always choose one to watch after trick-or-treating. For us, it’s a wonderful family night.

@jjbrinkmeyer

What do you love best about Halloween? Costuming. I look for any possible opportunity to play dress-up, and this is the biggest opportunity of the year for such fun.

@TA_Brock

* What are your Halloween traditions?

I take an #EverydayisHalloween approach and start every October off by pulling out Buffy (If I don’t watch Fear, Itself then Halloween didn’t happen) and some of my favorite Roseanne episodes, which are pretty fantastic. And I watch Hocus Pocus 1-Infinite times. Some years I carve pumpkins, some years, I don’t, and I always hodge podge together weird costumes at the last minute.

* What’s the best Halloween costume you’ve ever worn?

Probably the year I was an alien. I was ten years old and I worked for months to sew my costume, with a big purple headpiece and green make up for my face and arms and legs. It was incredibly uncomfortable!

* What do you love best about Halloween?