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Won't you come over on Halloween? This is a coloring book for everyone with over 40 pages of vintage style jack o lanterns, witches, cats and scarecrows. Go back in time when Halloween meant filling your pillowcase with fist size candy bars. No gray scale images, just clean black and white lines illustrations waiting for fun colors to bring them to life.

From The Master of Horror Timothy Mark comes "Vintage Halloween". This is a fun book filled with pictures.

A compilation of All Hallow's Eve history, customs, beliefs, literature, games and music taken from original 19th and 20th century sources. This one of a kind anthology of vintage Halloween history, superstition, facts and fun brings together two complete classic volumes--The Book of Halloween (1919) and Games For Halloween (1912)--along with more than 40 articles, reminiscences, stories, poems, and even sheet music, all published between the 1840s and the early 1920s, and all revealing and reveling in the spirit of Halloween as it was understood and celebrated in Europe and America during the 19th and early 20th centuries. With more than 300 pages of text and nearly 100 vintage Halloween illustrations -- Publisher's description.

This is a must-have guide for the serious collector of Halloween memorabilia, and anyone who would like to price a piece found at a flea market or in an attic. The detailed captioning is unmatched in any other Halloween price guide. Every piece is photographed, and every piece is captioned with basic information. &break;&break;Over 700 photographs &break;Every entry is accompanies by a photograph &break;Price is given for the condition shown &break;Tabbed to make it easy to find the section you're looking for

Full Moons, Black cats, Pumpkin Heads and Witches were the faces of Halloween back in the "Golden Age of Postcards." In this collection, you will get to see 101 unique, kooky, eye-catching (and some bizarre) art used to promote the Halloween Season. This is a great coffee-table conversation starter book or an awesome gift for a postcard collector or Halloween Lover! Also, these images can be used in art and design projects or printed and framed to make stunning decorative artworks for your home and office. Each postcard has a URL link so you can locate the image easily.

Full of spooky artworks, ephemera, vintage-inspired makes, rhymes, and stories, Creating Your Vintage Hallowe’en celebrates the folklore and traditions surrounding this delightfully unique holiday. Read how folk used to celebrate with dressing up, fortune-telling games, parties, and plenty of pleasurable spookiness, then recreate your own vintage Hallowe’en with old-fashioned projects, including a carved Jack o’ lantern, a witch costume, and fun decorations for your home. This book is packed full of little-known facts about the origins of Hallowe’en customs such as bobbing for apples and carving faces into pumpkins, while the charming makes and vintage artworks featuring red-cloaked witches, sleekly silhouetted black cats, cute kittens, cheery goblins, and smiling specters will inspire you to have your own vintage-style Hallowe’en celebration.

A Woggle of Witches is one of Adrienne Adams' most delightful picture books. Each double-page spread records a high moment in these lighthearted witches' night out.

The roots of Hallowe'en lie in the ancient pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on this night the veil separating the worlds of the living and the dead grew thin and ruptured, allowing spirits to pass through and walk unseen but not unheard amongst men. The advent of Christianity saw the pagan festival subsumed in All Souls' Day, when across Europe the dead were mourned and venerated. Children and the poor, often masked or in outlandish costume, wandered the night begging 'soul cakes' in exchange for prayers, and fires burned to keep malevolent phantoms at bay. From Europe, the haunted tradition would quickly take root and flourish in the fertile soil of the New World. Feeding hungrily on fresh lore, consuming half-remembered tales of its own shadowy origins and rituals, Hallowe'en was reborn in America. The pumpkin supplanted the carved turnip; costumes grew ever stranger, and celebrants both rural and urban seized gleefully on the festival's intoxicating, lawless spirit. For one wild night, the dead stared into the faces of the living and the living, ghoulishly masked and clad in tattered backwoods baroque, stared back. The photographs in Haunted Air provide an extraordinary glimpse into the traditions of this macabre festival from ages past, and form an important document of photographic history. These are the pictures of the dead: family portraits, mementos of the treasured, now unrecognisable, other. Torn from album pages, sold piecemeal for pennies and scattered, abandoned to melancholy chance and the hands of strangers.