Spooky Reads

Dressed for Thrills : 100 Years of Halloween Costumes and Masquerade by Phyllis Galembo, Mark Alice Durant, Valerie Steele © 2002

From a 1930s waxed, painted buckram "Evil Bunny" and a mohair and cotton "Colonial Ladies Wig" from the 1940s to "Buddie Beatnik" and "Rubik's Cube" costumes, this colorful photographic survey by Galembo, shows vintage costumes worn by (sometimes rather unhappy looking) young models. The play versions of Groucho Marx, Olive Oyl, astronauts and Lady Liberty among the 123 full-color photos illustrate that principle whimsically and sometimes scarily.

Ed Emberley's Halloween Drawing Book by Ed Emberley © 1995

Step-by-step instructions for drawing Halloween cartoon figures and objects. Features a collection of things for kids to draw as they get ready for Halloween. Includes jack-o-lanterns, skeletons, witches, bats, cats, monsters, owls and more!

Famous Monster Movie Art Of Basil Gogos by Kerry Gammill © 2005 (*Release date: December 2005...how retarded is that?)

The Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos is a celebration of the career of the acknowledged master of film monster portrait art. To many fans of classic horror movies, the name Basil Gogos is as familiar as that of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi or Vincent Price. Gogos' paintings are as iconic as his subjects.

*to read more about this book, go here.