Don’t miss future Hog’s Head Giveaways! Subscribe for free in your RSS reader or by email!
Time for our second October Giveaway! A couple weeks ago, Amy mentioned the release of the new Barnes and Noble edition of Lovecraft’s fiction – complete and unabridged in one volume! One lucky Hog’s Head patron will find themselves the owner of a brand new copy.
To enter the drawing, you have to submit a comment with a personal Halloween story, joke, or happening – anything will do, really, whether it be something funny that happened to you on a Halloween night, your favorite costume, a scary Halloween incident.
Submit your comment by 12noon EDT on Halloween. The drawing will take place that afternoon.
Good luck!
Travis Prinzi on 
Arabella Figg on 
SPT on 
Lily Luna on 
Loading ...
{ 12 comments… read them below or add one }
One of my favourite Halloweens was back in my college days, probably late 80’s. This is in mid-Nebraska & we had a blizzard that very day. High winds, icy conditions & lots of snow. So, trick or treating was cancelled & most travel was impossible. But that didn’t keep me & some friends from gathering at the church campus center where I was living as a resident at the time & playing role-playing games all through the night. I can’t remember if it was D & D or Star Trek: The RPG. But anyway, that was one of my best Halloween experiences.
Oh, and of course, watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” is a yearly tradition, too.
One of my earliest memories of Halloween actually occurred after Halloween. I was four or five years old. A boy in the neighborhood suggested that we go trick-or-treating, so we did. I don’t think we were too successful. I remember one lady telling us that she did not have any candy and the boy told her that crackers would be okay. Someone must have called my mother. I think I got into some kind of trouble because of this incident, but I don’t remember what it was.
Well… They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so… Here goes:
Dang. Let us try that again.
Do forgive me, Travis! I am attempting to share a photograph and evidently, my html skills are not up to par, alas!
Here is the link: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/Logospilgrim/Halloween/bookworm.jpg
I think my favourite Halloween stories have to do with the costumes I had when I was a kid.
When I was 3, and my mom asked me what I wanted to be for Halloween, there was only one thing I wanted and that was to be…… An Alligator. yes. An Alligator. Not a dinosaur, or a witch or a fairy an Alligator. So my mom searched high and low for any kind of costume that even remotely resembled an alligator without any luck. I refused to dress as anything else, so after working away in front of a sewing machine that she didn’t know who to use, and bought for this occasion, she created me an alligator costume out of forrest green corduroy and white felt for teeth. It was the best costume ever, and I was the only kid I know who has ever been an alligator.
The next year, I thought I’d be a BIT more traditional, so I decided I wanted to go as a Cat….my mom was thrilled…until I said not just any old cat but… a pink cat. I don’t knwo where I got it from but I wanted to be a pink cat. and yet again she made me a wonderful costume.
THANKS MOM!
hehe
To this day, i still like to come up with strange and out there costumes. This year.. I’m being a Popple! made of green fun fur and felt heart shaped ears!
My favorite Halloween story is of my grandmother. I think I was about 5 and she made me an old fashioned (Victorian) style dress for my costume, bonnet and all. It was a labor of love and I still have that costume.
My own daughters also wore it later on as well and it’s in the cedar chest for the day I have a granddaughter to wear it as well.
Wow HP Lovecraft!
I know a joke it’s not that great but here goes
knock knock
who’s there?
hit
hit who?
hit whom
hehe I hope that makes you giggle at least a little
Ha! Tell you what – it’s not a Halloween joke, but grammar freak that I am, it made me laugh. So it counts!
When I was about 8 or 9, I decided that I wanted to dress up as Moses for Halloween. Yes, Moses. I used the beard from my brother’s old Santa Claus costume and made my own Ten Commandments out of cardboard. I even wrote out each of the Commandments. So Halloween comes, and I go out trick-or-treating and am having quite a jolly time; however, I live in Texas, so Halloween is always a warm night. After walking around a couple of blocks, my beard was making me very hot, so I tore it off, ditched the Ten Commandments, and became a Shepherd for the rest of the night.
I’m the only person that I know who has ever gone out on Halloween dressed as a character from the Old Testament… especially a character from the opposite gender!
Every Hallowe’en night, we all dress up in costumes and visit the “old folks” in our extended family. We get homemade fudge at most of the homes.
We almost always come across a flaming roadblock on our drive home, sometimes forcing us to take a detour. I thought you would like this picture of my son in front of one of those roadblocks in 2002.
http://parentingfreedom.com/2008/10/30/halloween-memory/
We thought he looked like Harry Potter.
He is now fifteen and looking forward to winning this book. 
Hope you can send it to Canada where we sometimes have to wear snowsuits under our costumes. 
Last year my wife and I practiced saying “trick or treat” with our (then) 1 1/2 yr old. We told her time and again that she was supposed to say it when someone answered the door. She was doing great until we actually went trick or treating. Never said it once. Hopefully she’ll do better this year.