Countdown to Halloween 2024 (week 1)!

 

To start us off, here's a scan of a Citrus Hill Orange Juice reflective patch (really more of a sticker) from 1982, to slap on the backs of your young trick-or-treaters! I recently found this unused inside of a book that I purchased!!!

Well, it's already that time of year again, and nobody's happier than me.  And this year we get five weeks of October, so get ready for an onslaught of Halloween goodness. Someday we really will run out...but, not today:

Arch Oboler - Drop Dead! An Exercise In Horror (1962)

This one is a real treat.  Oboler was a writer of many types of things, but is best known for his run on the LIGHTS OUT horror radio show.  These vignettes examining different types of horror are incredibly well done, and a couple are downright terrifying.  If you grew up hearing Bill Cosby's routine about being scared to death as a child by a radio story about a giant chicken heart (which was a LIGHTS OUT episode by the way), it's here! Don't miss this one.

Monster Mash EP (Peter Pan Records, no date)

And there there's this rarity.  We begin with possibly the worst cover of "Monster Mash" you've heard in a long time, and then conclude with three random tracks from Frankie Stein albums (which were on Power Records anyway, which was joined at the hip to Peter Pan, so maybe it's not so weird after all).

The Sounds Of Halloween (Hallmark, 1986)

As Halloween sound effects records are so common, we are going to divide them up like we did last year, so there's not an entire week of only sound effects records.  This one is dear to me because I owned it as a kid.  It is one side sound effects, and one side sound-alike covers of Halloween songs.  Is "Purple People Eater" even remotely a Halloween song? I think that's stretching.

LINK: Spooky Month 2024 Countdown (Week 1)

Don't forget that previous years of Spooky Month downloads are still....undead on this very blog, as well as several other related items!