Another Hallowe'en / Costumed for Crime!

We have a big horror double-feature now playing over at THOIA for Halloween this year, and AEET equally has you covered here as well. It's a killer crime pair-up from the Golden Age of precode comics, as Master magician, Blackstone is on the case at an appropriately set masquerade ball in "Costumed for Crime!" from the May 1948 issue of Blackstone the Magician #2. Yeah, if only my own holiday shindigs were this exciting! But first up, a criminally overlooked gem from the one-shot issue of Monster Crime #1 (October 1952) via Hillman Publication. Unfortunately, GCD has no listing for an artist for either the story, or that great cover design-- now isn't THAT a monstrous crime too! And speaking of monsters, earlier this month I showed you my Labubu Trick or Treater, and since Labubu's actually are monsters, here comes a cute couple now featuring plush pendant Labubu in a sitting Halloween pumpkin costume, while darlin' date Mokoko stuns 'em all in her black 'n orange witch attire! And don't miss the Labubu encore at the very end of this post too, because this time it comes in a smaller style vinyl keychain variant that lights up in the dark! Here's hoping that everyone has a safely sinister evening of Hallowe'en thrills 'n chills-- and we will see you again shortly in November for much, much more!

Ominous Odds 'n Eerie Ends

How about some assorted cuteness from the Karswell Vintage Halloween Collection? Greeting cards are always fun, especially with neato art and some funny riddles that you can actually use while out trick or treating on the big night! Oh and visiting haunted houses on Halloween is also a "must do" objective, so how about one that transforms right before your eyes simply by pulling a ghostly tab (on the bottom left hand of the image/s!) The view through the windows change and everything! AIEEE!! And wrapping things up with some random vintage pop-outs-- from what I don't know --but gosh they are adorable and really sum up the festive fun of All Hallows Eve! 

I have something a bit more serious for Halloween up next, so stay tombed...

The Headless Bat (STL)

Hey, do you like pizza? What about loud music, pinball, horror movies, and art? Yes! Good! Because the next time you're in STL MO, and get a hankerin' for a slice o'pie with a side order of heavy metal and monsters, you must visit The Headless Bat at 3128 Morganford Rd., just one block south of beautiful Tower Park Grove Park. Great food 'n games, and lots of awesome stuff on every wall to look at --yes, even in the blasphemous bathrooms! This is absolutely the best place to spend Halloween in this town too, with your mouth full of their amazin' beer cheese pretzel bite appetizers, and your ears bleeding from an over amplification of Venom and non-stop arcade game racket. And while I'm not a boozer, they appear to have one of the best stocked bars in STL too. CLICK HERE for more info, and also check out their Facebook page for actual pix of the food (which I unfortunately failed on here, derrr), --plus updates about current and upcoming events, specials, etc. Four horns up, double fist pump pizza, drinks, black light posters, and more! What else could you possibly want? I know, I know... if you're a Danzig fan like me and The Headless Bat owner, you want skulls. You can't ever have too many skulls...

Zombies! Cats! & Ghosts-- oh my!

Just a small sampling for you all today of creepy cool things I spotted throughout the month of October 2025, starting with another great vintage Halco costume in the original box, this time it's good 'ol Felix the Cat highlighted by an interesting "riding a shark while dressed as a cowboy" frock smock design. Plus, a fun Frankenstein rubber jiggler (looks like he reeeeally needs to stop biting his fingernails!) But the most odd and perplexing thing I saw was a grave bustin' zombie model kit scene. Does anyone know anything about this? I love that there's a vulture already waitin' to take a bite out of grime! I imagine that this was actually someone's very own, homemade from scratch creation, as I'm not finding anything online anywhere about it. So yeah, a true one-of-a-kind horror find, I'd say! Despite all of this neato stuff, the only thing here that I actually bought was a Kooky Spooky's glow-in-the-dark Daddy Booregard from 1968 Hasbro. These are getting exceedingly hard to find anymore, and with him missing his clock necklace accessories, the price was actually in my affordable range for a change! What about you now? What've you found lately?

Cannibal Holocostume

This entire post will likely offend a few people for a number of various reasons, but here it comes anyway-- it's yet another vintage boxed-up Halloween find from the Karswell Collection, and this time around being a very old Super Halco Brand Cannibal Masquerade Costume. Bright pink box, with a neato die-cut clown face lid, those giant pink lips poking through the gaping mouth hole almost seem to fit perfectly, that is, until you actually lift the lid and see what jungle jitter terrors await inside. So yeah, what we have here is a rather poor, cartoonish mask representation of an African headhunter, aka a cannibal, (actually two versions of the mask presented here, if you scroll towards the bottom you'll see another even older, gauze example from possibly the 30's or early 40's.) Annnnd on an even poorer note, --this time in regards to color contrast and design-- the smock frock concept features the rest of the cannibal's body from the shoulders down, and holding a decapitated human skull. It would all pop a bit better if not rendered in blue fuzzy flocking on gold cloth material, so a big thumbs down on whoever thought that was a good idea, --unless the intention was to give someone a migraine while trying to decipher the image. The ageless wrinkles don't help matters much either. And rounding things out, and making this post even more loathe worthy, we have the notorious poster art for Ruggero Deodato's 1980 Italian drive-in "classic", Cannibal Holocaust (post title makes sense now, eh?) And oh yes you have too seen it, --don't even act like that, ya big freakin' liar. One other thing I want to add to further leave you all with a really bad taste in your mouths: Though the side of the box says 807 degrees is the proper temperature for cooking a large child, in actuality what you want to do is..........