Please Support Small Independent Artists

In these uncertain economic times, it's really important to support small independent artists that embrace and cherish Halloween. Toxictoons has these shirts available for pre-order until the end of March 2025. We have been patrons of Toxictoons for over a decade now.

A Pit Fiend Needs A Pit

For our 2025 haunt, we were simply going to use our "Pit Fiend" mask from Trick Or Treat Studios as a groundbreaker prop, but decided that a "Pit Fiend" really needs to be in a pit! Instead of having a bunch of our 2' tall skeletons trying to escape the fiery abyss, we're going to use the "Pit Fiend" in our 2021 built hell hole prop instead.

Late 70s Vintage Monster Toys

Mr. Haunted stumbled upon a video post for the Mighty Men & Monster Maker which he had forgotten that he had when he was a kid. He also had the Creepy Crawler Thingmaker II as well. Neither quite lived up to what the TV commercials promised!

Halloween 2025 Product Of Interest

With some of the new Halloween 2025 product lines being revealed at trade shows already, we've started taking a peek online and are making notes about things we would like to get for decorating and future haunts. This upcoming Sleepy Hollow Pumpkin Candy Pail from Trick Or Treat Studios is on our shopping list! We have some orange flickering LED pumpkin lights and think a pair of these pails would look great on our entertainment center bookcase tower shelves.

2025 Haunt Plans

We've been hard at work prepping for our 2025 Devils & Demons haunt theme. We've added some new characters for this revamped version of our 2021 haunt theme. Alas, we've done pretty much all that we can do for now in our basement. There are lots of prop builds and projects for this year's haunt that just have to wait until we can start working in our garage and outside again in the late spring/early summer.

Io Saturnalia

Scrooge in Hell

Mr. Haunted Eve loves Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol because it embodies all the same spooky elements that he loves about Halloween. Mr. Haunted Eve's favorite movie version of this story is 1970's Scrooge starring Albert Finney. During the mid to late 70s, all the TV edits of this movie that he first saw cut out the "Scrooge in Hell" scenes. The later released DVD and Blu-ray versions restored the hell scenes. There are lots of fantastic details, like tormented faces in the stalactites and stalagmites.