12 Months of October

Happy 100 Days to Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃

Happy 100 days ‘til Halloween! A small restock of Mega Mugs have hit the shop, all spooky plaques and ceramic mugs are currently 25% off, and there’s fresh stock of old-school All Hallows bumper stickers and buttons to choose from. Hope you all are enjoying these last lingering days of summer before the most magical season hits us in our Halloween faces. 🎃Shop Link in Bio🎃

Just FYI, the sooner you spooky folk place an order, the sooner it will ship when we return. After a crazy year and a week-long stomach bug in this house, this vacation is needed more than ever. Thank you so much. Love you all. 🌊🎃 shop link in bio

Amling’s Haunted House opened at 8900 W. North Avenue, on the SW corner of 1st  and North Avenues in Melrose Park, Illinois, for Halloween in 1950. It’s owners let it go in the late 1970s or early 1980s, plagued by the cost of insuring such a thrill-inducing experience.

Amling’s Haunted House opened at 8900 W. North Avenue, on the SW corner of 1st  and North Avenues in Melrose Park, Illinois, for Halloween in 1950.

Dang. Memory unlocked. You would have had to pry my New Kids on the Block one from my cold, dead hands. Wish I knew one happened to it. Which one did you have?

My generation’s Stanley cups 😂😂😂😂

From Olsons family photos, 1967

A couple more bumper stickers for the upcoming season…and year-round, of course. 🎃link in bio

And here we have an example of a perfect picture. October, 1965.

Thinking of Saint Candy today, who was born on Halloween , 1950.

Going on our family vacation at the end of the month, the shop will still be open but just wanted to let everyone know that any orders during that time will be sent out when I come back, if I come back, and don’t run away with the ghosts of the Wright Brothers.

There’s also a 25% off sale going on in the shop, and I’m going to try to get everything out as quickly as possible in preparation for the trip. Thank you, love you.

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When I was a kid in the 80s, my mom had a shirt from a joint called “The Stone Crab Inn” in Saint Clairsville, Ohio. It was red and there was a drawing of a stone crab on the front, with the proclamation “I GOT CRABS AT THE STONE CRAB INN” circling around it in white. The shirt was pretty old, even back then, and had a buttery soft feel to it, so I liked to take it out of her drawer and wear it on occasion. I’ll never forget my dad always getting SO uncomfortable when I’d put it on and telling my mom after a long sigh “take that off of her, Tracey”. It wasn’t until nearly a decade later that I learned how ridiculous that shirt was and why my dad wasn’t a fan of his 5 year old wearing it.

I’d give my left kidney to have that shirt again. It was the epitome of kitsch and double entendre.

Anyway, this mug has nothing to do with getting crabs at a roadside motel but I think of that shirt whenever I make something like this. I hope you all come to the Harvest Festival in Haunted Hollow with me this year, we can get lost in the corn maze. Again. 🦀Shop Link in Bio🦀

The last few of my most recent batch of Trick or Treat Mart mega mugs have been listed for your Summerween suffering. 🧡🌊🖤 link in bio

Halloween, 1957.

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An orange version of the 1920s Halloween poem Jack that I recently made for a customer. I added this as an option in the shop 🎃🖤 Link in bio

Thinking about my local news stations Halloween forecast last year and how they just sort of gave up at 8pm.

For the love of all things, write him in. Get your Candy for Prez bumper sticker in the shop 🫡🇺🇸 Link in Bio

Sharing my All Hallows shop section because of big box blasphemy. Has Michael’s even met Halloween? How many “here for the boos” signs and mugs can one company make?

Also check out some of my favorite small Halloween shops : 🖤🎃🖤











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And SO many more, who I’ll be sharing from now until October.

Who’s going? 🖤 🌙 I made this Harvest Dance sign for a customer recently and added a couple to the shop. Link in bio 🌙🖤

Sometimes all you need is a Jack and a Garfield landline.

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Head down to Spook Show Video for a fresh VHS and a cold pop, pull the shades and settle in for a horror marathon. But please, don’t forget your koozie. Now in the shop! 📼💀link in bio💀📼

Before heading to the pool, I went down to Trick or Treat Mart to get a refill from the cider slush fountain and Larry the station attendant sent me home with a small batch of mega mugs for you all. Nice guy, Larry. 🌊🎃Use the link in my bio to grab yours!🎃🌊

Today we stopped by while out in town. Had no idea this little novelty shop was so much fun. I got my hands on these two giant 24” x 20” original 1970s pumpkin photos by local photographer Allen Litten. There were so many incredible photos in that stack, I would have walked out with 20 of them, including 70s photos of various women posing inside and outside abandoned farmhouses, silhouettes of children carrying pumpkins through cornfields at dusk, and so much more…but I’ll be back.

LOVE these photos from and some ot the spooky goodies from her Summerween bundle. Thank you! 🌞🌊🎃 Shop link in bio 🎃🌊🌞

I’m pretty sure the perfect retro-style Halloween piece for that gallery wall is in the shop. Love you. 🖤🎃Link in bio🎃🖤

Bless it. Spooky Wall Art 👻🖤 Shop Link in Bio🖤👻

I’ve added a couple more retro-style Summerween bundles to the shop! Includes mega mug, bumper sticker, air freshener, and koozie for those rad road-trips and lounging by the pool. 🌊🌞🎃 Shop link in bio!

Give me all the retro coziness -and don’t forget the side of horror movies ghost stories. Get your Horror Addict plaque in the shop 🤎👻Link in bio👻🤎

Sure, it’s Monday, but it’s never the wrong time to come on down to Spook Show Video and grab a sweet horror stack and one of our retro-style Mega Mugs. Fill that puppy up with a tasty beverage from Trick or Treat Mart and pop some corn for a weekday night full of fright! 💀📼 Shop Link in Bio 📼💀