THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS
SOUNDS SPOOKY
SPOOKY LITERATURE
HALLOWEEN ENTERTAINMENT
HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS
100
Supposedly, President Harrison is heard in the attic & Jackson haunts the Rose Bedroom in this house
the White House
100
You don't have to keep it under wraps: a British kid might use this 5-letter word instead of mother
mummy
100
To pass the time on a rainy day in Geneva, she & her husband & friends were telling each other ghost stories; she came up with "Frankenstein"--not bad for starting your first novel at age 18
Mary Shelley
100
At Disneyland you can watch the Headless Horseman ride down this central road
Main Street
100
Dye some gauze in black tea for an aged look & wrap yourself up as this guy whom Abbott & Costello met in a 1955 film
the Mummy
200
This "Triangle" near Florida has been the site of numerous maritime disasters
the Bermuda Triangle
200
Sanguinelli is a variety of this citrus fruit whose flesh can be deep red
a blood orange
200
On the way home at midnight Ichabod Crane thinks this alliterative specter is in pursuit & has thrown its cranium at the schoolmaster; in the morning, a broken pumpkin shell is found, but not Ichabod Crane
the Headless Horseman
200
"I got a rock" was Charlie Brown's lament in the 1966 TV special about this "Great" imaginary being
The Great Pumpkin
200
If the guys are gangsters, wear fringed dresses & be these '20s gals found in a Fitzgerald title
flappers
300
It's the mysterious prehistoric structure seen here
Stonehenge
300
Also a Stephen King book title, this group of workers is the smallest amount possible to successfully fill a shift
a skeleton crew
300
"Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies
R.L. Stine
300
Because it's Halloween, Elliott dresses up E.T. like one of these so he won't be recognized
a ghost
300
A costume for 2:
This double-crossing pair from Mad magazine, one in black & one in white, created by Antonio ProhÃas
Spy vs. Spy
400
Thousands of years ago this legendary lost continent is believed by some to have vanished beneath the waves
Atlantis
400
There are 3 species of this mammal, which uses echolocation & feeds on livestock
vampire bats
400
The burial of Stephen King's daughter's cat Smucky helped inspire this novel that the author has said is just as dark as can be
Pet Semetary
400
This Warren Zevon tune about shapeshifters in England is a staple on radio stations in October
"Werewolves of London"
400
Roll up the sleeves of a blue denim workshirt, put a red bandana in your hair & you can be this feminist WWII icon
Rosie the Riveter
500
This large dinosaur-like creature possibly lives in a large Scottish lake near Inverness
the Loch Ness Monster
500
It's named for how some of its growth dangles down as if in a web
spider plants
500
"The story had held us round the fire, sufficiently breathless", is how this author began "The Turn of the Screw", about a governess trying to protect children from the effects of malevolent spirits
Henry James
500
"Halloween III" was subtitled this, just like the title of a Donovan song
Season of the Witch
500
Dress in black with a red plastic flowerpot for a hat & you can "Whip It" good like a member of this New Wave group
Devo